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Neco:
I sure can pick'em I tell you what.

First I buy Macross II: Do you Remember Love?  on DVD a few years ago and get pissed off because the last half has this stupid blue tint to the whole picture (that's easy enough to fix but damn what else might be wrong?)

Then I find out Gall Force  Destruction & Stardust War  are some of the shittiest transfers of all time with their screwed up telecine patterns, panning, and field blends.

Now I start working on Dirty Pair: Flash, thinking I'm gonna have an easy project to do as it deinterlaced and IVTC'd just fine for the most part,  and what do I get?   garbage on the edge...  No problem I'll crop!   NO.  corruption extends up from the garbage well into 20% of the picture on a lot of these bad frames so I have to manually replace them with dupe copies or dupe the end of the last scene early so I don't screw up my frame rate..   Except this crap happens on practically EVERY scene change and on  episode 1 of OVA 1, I am 3 minutes into the video with an astounding 33 frame replacements so far.

I'm almost afraid to look at Loddoss War and other older stuff I have on DVD, hell even afraid to look at my newer stuff!
What gives?   It's no wonder people  seek out sites like this one, when they get charged unfair prices for a disc with 5 measly episodes (or sometimes less) and then to top it off, the transfer to DVD is some screwed up bullshit  with no attempt to repair or cleanup the mess from whatever source they used.

Ugh.. I just want to find something I can encode that we don't have, so I can give back to the community,  and I get nothing but trouble each time I try a set of DVD's...  :-[

Monkemon:
That sucks I would love to see Dirty Pair Flash up on the site.

Neco:
I know there are rips out there, likely of dubious quality..  An old one I saw floating around was DivX.   I didn't bother to check it out though.

I haven't intended to drop the project as of yet.   Basically I've solved the hurdle of easy deinterlacing and IVTC.  Got some good filtering done to clean up the picture as well.

It's just that this process of  replacing bad frames on the scene changes (I mean really how do you fuck up every scene change in a project? There is clearly damage from splicing and miss-aligning too.) is very manual and time intensive.   I basically have to use  Avisynths  Freezeframe  function,  one entry per line,  to swap out bad frames for good or approximate copies.   But stepping through the file one frame at a time, is the hardest and most boring part.

The GOOD news is, that I usually only ever replace between 1 - 2 frames  so far.  Which means even if the match isn't pixel perfect,  you really wouldn't notice it while watching at full speed,  unless you specifically looked for it, and probably have to look hard.

It's just going to take me a long time to get through it..  My  Avisynth script will be reading like the proverbial  timecodes.txt  when I am through with the first episode.   And then I get to do it all over again, 20 more times!  ???   I hope to hell calling that many  FreezeFrame()  functions  isn't going to impact performance upon saving.

Drew:
There's been a lot of improvement recently, though.

Like companies packaging a full series for $40 to $50. I think that's a fair price, especially considering that I remember paying upwards of $20 for two to four episodes in the past.

Neco:
You are quite right.  The prices do get better in some respects.

But still,  until the price for e.g  Gundam SeeD  / Destiny sets are gonna drop to $25 per part (seriously, wtf package the whole damn thing in one box THEN I'll consider paying $60+)  I likely won't ever pick them up.

Much less the shorter series' out there that they want $30 - $50 for anyway.  I guess it all depends on where and when you shop too.  Hopefully I'll have some spare cash around christmas time or something and things will have good sales...

Kind of always been wanting to get rid of these AHQ Gundam encodes..    Ah needz moar kwalities!

Oh I misspoke earlier.  It's actually 16 episodes,  I'm not sure where I got 21 from.

I have half a mind to e-mail whatever is left of  ADV and chide them for this pathetic quality though,  unless sunrise delivered them production copies in this condition, then I'll have to yell at them too.

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