Jetrell Fo said:
Those Japanese subs are burnt in.
You are right.
Unless you have an LD player that allows you to turn them off you're stuck.
You are wrong... because of the former answer! These kind of subtitles, as they are burnt in, could NOT be removed, as they are part of the image... the only ones in the laserdisc format that could be turned on/off, like DVD and BD, are the LD+G ones - they need an LD+G decoder, or a rare laserdisc player with built in LD+G decoder.
I want to add that the studio made a bad job here... the most perfect example of japanese subtitles OUT of the image is Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: they shifted up a bit the image, to leave more room for the two lines subtitles.
Back to us: my ColourMatch script - like all the other color matching ones- is "stupid"... can't understand if a white part of the image is actually a real part of the image, or a subtitle... so, when subtitles are present, their colors will influence (negatively) the regraded one...
So, this japanese laserdisc "as is" could not be used as color reference - to me, at least, using my script... until it's not "fixed" (read: subtitles in the images are wiped out), and results will not be so good anyway...
At the end, the DVD could be used as color reference, using the japanese laserdisc only for the added scenes... OR... if this laserdisc is actually open matte and not pan&scan, it could be used for this project...