Peter Pan, 1960 TV Movie with Mary Martin, Restored - 1080p Upscale (Released)

Happy New Year, everyone!

The DVD, VHS, and LaserDisc releases of the 1960 TV movie version of Peter Pan with Mary Martin, released by the bankrupt-since-2005 GoodTimes Home Entertainment and officially licensed by NBC, suffer from errors that also are on the original 1960 master videotape such as color misalignment, tape distortion/noise, jitter, telecine lines, ghosting, and interlacing.

However, all of these have been fixed in a brand-new fan restoration by clementj1, available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VusJd4x3tI8.

Unfortunately, it only exists in a 480p SD version. I have created a 1080p HD-upscaled MP4 version (and I will only have it be upscaled that way, given how my laptop isn’t 4K compatible, and I don’t own a UHD-friendly Blu-ray drive, a 4K TV, or a 4K Blu-ray player) with Topaz Labs’ Topaz Video Enhance AI (in the program’s trial version). The upscale’s not perfect, but it’s as good as I could get, and I’m very pleased with the results. PM me for a link.

I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps. having the higher bit rate can really improve the perceived image quality. Its like they’re throwing half the image away.

Chewielewis said:

I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps.

Huh. I didn’t think of converting it to 60fps. I kept it at 30fps. I’ll make a 60fps version with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

JEDIT: 60fps version created! Now I need to upload it on MEGA.NZ.

James76 said:

Chewielewis said:

I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps.

Huh. I didn’t think of converting it to 60fps. I kept it at 30fps. I’ll make a 60fps version with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

JEDIT: 60fps version created! Now I need to upload it on MEGA.NZ.

Thats no good if you are working from an already deinterlaced source. The original Youtube poster should have done that with the original tape otherwise that second field is lost permanenetly. Doing a false 60fps upscale is possible worse.

Chewielewis said:

James76 said:

Chewielewis said:

I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps.

Huh. I didn’t think of converting it to 60fps. I kept it at 30fps. I’ll make a 60fps version with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

JEDIT: 60fps version created! Now I need to upload it on MEGA.NZ.

Thats no good if you are working from an already deinterlaced source. The original Youtube poster should have done that with the original tape otherwise that second field is lost permanenetly. Doing a false 60fps upscale is possible worse.

Oh. All right then. Never mind.

JEDIT: Just asked the uploader to re-restore the source in 1080p 60fps.

Dek Rollins said:

I’m not super knowledgeable about interlacing, but I thought deinterlacing involved combining both fields together, as they would originally alternate. How does that ‘lose’ the second field?

That depends on what type of deinterlacing option you choose.

Dek Rollins said:

Chewielewis said:

James76 said:

Chewielewis said:

I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps.

Huh. I didn’t think of converting it to 60fps. I kept it at 30fps. I’ll make a 60fps version with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

JEDIT: 60fps version created! Now I need to upload it on MEGA.NZ.

Thats no good if you are working from an already deinterlaced source. The original Youtube poster should have done that with the original tape otherwise that second field is lost permanenetly. Doing a false 60fps upscale is possible worse.

I’m not super knowledgeable about interlacing, but I thought deinterlacing involved combining both fields together, as they would originally alternate. How does that ‘lose’ the second field?

Not exactly, Deinterlacing takes one field and uses a process to fill in the other field to make a whole frame. If you do that with every even field you get 30fps, if you do it with both the even and the odd field you get 60fps.

According to the uploader of the video in their reply to my comment:
Only simple deinterlacing removes half of the frames. QTGMC in AVISYNTH was used because it does an excellent job without throwing away every other half frame. A variety of deinterlacers were auditioned to pick the best. Bobbing interpolates every half frame to create 60fps, and creates jitter in fine detail, so it isn’t artifact free. The laser disc source had a problem with a number of sections where some half frames had sections with lines displaced. This also was in a tape made from a broadcast, so it is probably a problem in the master tape. This required extensive frame by frame editing. The conversion needed weeks of work to remove all of the problems, so it will not be redone. I have gone back and redone a handful of my early restorations, but this was a more recent one done with the best available software. The pros may have a deinterlacer/bobber which can restore the SD TV illusion of smoothness without jitter, but I don’t know if it it exists. The only way to get that may be to watch the laser disk on an old SD TV, but it will still have the displaced lines. Digitization of SD TV broadcasts also rotates fast moving objects because it is converting scanned motion into instantaneous images. Restoration/digitization is always a compromise. Sorry, but maybe someone else will do what you want. You should also know that YouTube further highly compresses the original submitted video which degrades what you see.

I just paid $40 for a blu-ray DVD of this and the quality is marginal. Im very excited about what you’ve been able to do to improve it. You promised a link, is it available? Please advise, Dean Opperman.

He can’t at the moment, since he’d gotten involved in a bit of a tempest in a teacup over in the Fantasia thread.

I’m a kid lol