Hi-
FarooqBhai wrote:
but really even IF the DVD9 of 223 minutes looks OKAY...trust ME, i can put my magic on it to make it LOOK 100% better...
i don't care if it takes me 1-2 weeks to remaster that one...i'll use a great script on that one...
It seems to me that if you have a slow filter chain in your AviSynth script you'd be better off making a lossless AVI first (I use Lagarith), and then feeding
that into CCE or whatever encoder you use. I saw you mention an 18 hour encode before, but unless your computer is a pretty slow one you'll save a lot of time by doing the slow encode only once in VDub(Mod), and then using AVISource on the lossless AVI for the MPEG-2 encode, rather than running all your CCE passes using the slow script.
As you well know, what you're doing isn't exactly rocket science or even all that uncommon. Many of us that love Indian films reencode them as a matter of course, since the DVDs are so lousy. Fixing the gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation, colors sometimes, unblending sometimes, followed by sharpening, it's all in a day's work for an Indian film enthusiast. But I'm glad you're here showing what can be done sometimes to improve a messed up DVD. Unfortunately, there's also a lot that can't be fixed.