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		Maybe some judicious degraining of the Blu-ray 's obvious, artificial regraining (image is forum-reduced to fit here; right-click & view image  to see magnified) ..
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.. will make for a better picture and help blend into other sources?
	 
	
	
	
		
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		May be a good idea, but please, explain the advantage of degraining the three channels separately... would you use different settings for each channel?
	 
	
	
	
		
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		What happened to the idea of using just the HDTV caps and eschewing the BD? I thought that at some point (probably on ot.com) it was established that they had more detail than the BD and/or that it was preferable to use them because they hadn't been tinkered with as much.
	 
	
	
	
		
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		This is the facts: 
1) BD - you know it 
2) WOWOW - maybe better details, different colors, blown out whites (as you can see in picture #1), different framing - sometimes with more details, again pic #1 
3) Channel 1 - open matte, it *should* reflect perfectly the BD, but is has that TV logo (residual traces on pic #3, but hey, it was a quick test, after all!    ) lower bitrate than WOWOW, and color grading a bit different from BD
 
Plan is to find a fit-for-all settings for colors/brightness/contrast (I'm pretty sure there is) to get the Channel 1 open matte as closer as possible to BD, slap the BD upon it - eventually merging it to obtain a tiny bit more details, but don't know if it's the case, use the WOWOW when frame contains more details than BD - eventually using open matte slices to fill the screen, but bottom corners would be missing, and replacing them with inpaint filter could probably result in a mess - and finally regrade it as I did with my previous project, 50/50 LD/BD.
 
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		Where is the WOWOW available? Is it 1080i MPEG-2? If so, what's the bitrate?
	 
	
	
	
		
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		Can't remember where I found it... the usual Russian tracker, perhaps?
 1080i, 21mbps avg 24mbps max, special edition, with few WOWOW logo appearances - can't remember, but maybe three or four during the whole movie, each lasts a dozen second.
 
	
	
	
		
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		 (2017-06-15, 12:18 AM)spoRv Wrote:  Easy, huh?    
Better you than I!
 
What about the other cap?  Is it no use?
	 
	
	
	
		
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		 (2017-06-15, 01:50 AM)Chewtobacca Wrote:  What about the other cap?  Is it no use? Which one?    
	
	
	
		
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		I don't know, Andrea -- the other big one. It was a long time ago, and I don't remember if I still have it.   I'll have a look for it, but as you know, I don't have any upload space at present.
 And (truth be told) I'm not that big of an Aliens fan and don't care much about open-matte releases. *runs away*
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