Hi, I've got a number of old Laserdiscs I'm working on recording to PC and cleaning up. For the discs that aren't film to NTSC conversions (i.e. were were originally recorded in 1/60th sec timebase fields), I'm also using a yadif 30 FPS -> 60 FPS deinterlace filter. I want to get some opinions from some of the experts here on whether or not I'm doing a good job with the picture clean-up.
My LD player isn't the best in the world. It's an old Pioneer LD-V2200 from 1989. It seems to love giving me chroma noise, especially in the blue to purple range. I'm not sure how much of that is the player and how much it's from the discs themselves. I've been using a 4-frame temporal dead-reckoning comb filter to try and eliminate as much of that as I can. I've also been trying my best to make black levels look nice.
Here is a sample video (50 MB) of one of my clean-up jobs:
http://vps.rubbermallet.org/ld-cleanup.avi
If you're on Windows, I don't recommend VLC for 60 FPS playback. It's a known issue, it can sometimes be jerky. MPC-HC is much better for it. Also, it looks better if you don't stretch up from the original size of course. ;)
Any advice? Does it look good? Can I do much better than this with a source like Laserdisc? My capture card is one of the old-ish WinTV cards with the Bt 878 chipset.
Thanks.
My LD player isn't the best in the world. It's an old Pioneer LD-V2200 from 1989. It seems to love giving me chroma noise, especially in the blue to purple range. I'm not sure how much of that is the player and how much it's from the discs themselves. I've been using a 4-frame temporal dead-reckoning comb filter to try and eliminate as much of that as I can. I've also been trying my best to make black levels look nice.
Here is a sample video (50 MB) of one of my clean-up jobs:
http://vps.rubbermallet.org/ld-cleanup.avi
If you're on Windows, I don't recommend VLC for 60 FPS playback. It's a known issue, it can sometimes be jerky. MPC-HC is much better for it. Also, it looks better if you don't stretch up from the original size of course. ;)
Any advice? Does it look good? Can I do much better than this with a source like Laserdisc? My capture card is one of the old-ish WinTV cards with the Bt 878 chipset.
Thanks.