yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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quote: Originally posted by crudman
Unless someone can find a proper reason, it probably won't happen.
Based on what I've seen I think a proper for excessive crop might fly. You might also be able to make a case for bad deinterlacing. More on that in a sec...
Video - 3: Washed out. Excessive left crop, and probably some unneeded bottom and top crop as well. Dark stuff comes through looking really, really bad, almost impossible to distinguish the substance from the blackness at times. (Title sequence and opening bit with the... umm... wraith things, whatever, are good examples) Now, as for the deinterlacing thing I mentioned above, this release suffers from worse-than-usual motion blur. Why? Because every frame has a double image. If you advance the video frame-by-frame in a scene with any motion whatsoever you will see double and even triple images in the video. That cannot be from the camera; that is a post-processing issue. What it looks like to me is that the source video was interlaced with a simple weave pattern, but instead of reversing the weave ViSUAL decided to blend the frames for whatever reason. Blend deinterlace gives you blur and double images, and couple that with the existing motion blur present on pretty much every cam or TS out there you get... well you get the unwatchable crap we have here. I have seen MORE unwatchable, but not by much.
Audio - 6: It does the job okay. A little distorted on the high pitched stuff, but what's worse is the background hum present. It's slight, but enough that you can pick it out in the silent scenes. (Especially if you watch with headphones) All the speech is understandable though, and the music comes through... mostly. Mono sound as well, though most TS and even R5 Line audio seems to be mono anymore.
Movie - ?: I had to stop watching because I couldn't tell what was going on half the time. I didn't even make it through the first disc. Seemed entertaining though, what little of it I saw.
Bottom line: Wait for an R5, an internal release, or a Proper from some group that actually knows how to post-process a video source. Watching this release is like trying to see the movie screen through a fishtank half-full of muddy water while drunk.
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