2017-02-02, 11:28 PM
(2017-02-02, 08:06 AM)MrBrown Wrote: The video really looks impressive, considering it is an upscale.
Thank you sir and thanks for the help with the extra track and previewing it.
Also thanks to Doombot. This video was pretty crappy. The video was 2-ish GB of Mpeg-2 data (minus the soundtracks), so it was block city. But besides that there was a lot of noise, not grain but video noise. Luckily, Doombot watched about 20 versions till I got it as good as I could. I'm very much a fan of avisynth plugin: QTGMC. That is a terribly powerful tool and was able to minimize the noise.
(2017-02-02, 08:59 AM)TServo2049 Wrote: Holy crap, that looks a hell of a lot like the 35mm print I saw a few years back. I don't know where you got those 35mm frames, but it looks dead on, down to the final scene having a greenish tint and being nearly sepia in how little color it has.
I'm happy to hear that Servo!
(2017-02-02, 02:01 PM)spoRv Wrote: Following the logic, you are right MrBrown... but, following my experience, and the tests I made (and continuing to make every day), logic is not always to be followed with video restoration...
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Again, just my own experience, so your mileage can vary. A proper thread where other project makers could talk about this topic could be interesting.
I've tried it both ways when I was coming up with a workflow and find that color correction at the end yields more HD and dynamic looking colors.
I think it comes down to part of what MrBrown says, more information, more data yields better results. Or it could be changes in colorspace from SD to HD or uncompressed. It just looks more HD to me in this case.
This is coming to the organ in a little bit to join BTTF. Got to finish Army of Darkness....
