LaserDisc to DVD with TmpgEnc Xpress 4.0

[sapulidi]

i need to back-up my laserdisc to dvd with tmpgenc xpress 4.0. after use all procedure i've problem to choose filter in xpress 4.0 for restoration this laserdisc, because this tmpgenc xpress 4.0 have 19 filter and i'm not familiar with all filter. so which filter do i use to restoration this laserdisc.

fyi: tmpgenc xpress 4.0 have filter;
1.Picture Crop
2.Picture Resize
3.Picture Rotation
4.Deinterlace
5.Anti-Flickering
6.Video Noise Reduction
7.Ghost Reduction
8.Color Correction
9.Color Phase Correction
10.Contour
11.Sharpness
12.Smart Sharpness
13.Gaussian Blur
14.Video Fade-In/Fade-Out
15.Subtitles
16.Audio Noise Reduction
17.Volume Adjustment
18.Audio Fade-In/Fade-Out
19.Bilingual Audio
and have feature to save configuration filter to a file i.e. laserdisc, vhs, betamax, etc. so we can share the configuration filter.

regards,
sapulidi

[jagabo]

You probably don't need to filter at all.

[sapulidi]

at this time my choice is;
3.Picture Rotation - i capture using broadway-pro so need "mirror horizontal"
4.Deinterlace - default from tmpgenc xpress
11.Sharpness - the picture look more good

any configuration to color and remove laser-rot?

[edDV]

Is this a movie Laserdisk or video based?

For PAL movies, you don't need to deinterlace and the Laserdisc should already have adequate sharpness. You risk adding noise if you sharpen.

High bit rate is what you need. Consider a dual layer DVDR.


What does the "laser rot" look like?

[jman98]

What does the "laser rot" look like?

It's a little difficult to describe, but it sort of looks like snow on a TV picture. Actually what it is very small horizontal lines that take up maybe 1/30th the width of your screen, but imagine that the entire screen is filled with them all over the place in seemingly random places. It's awful.

I agree with edDV's post. I'm not sure that you can really do anything to "fix" laser rot, but perhaps edDV has some suggestions on a filter that might make it a little less bad. If you deinterlace, you should only deinterlace movies and not TV shows on laserdisc.

[edDV]

If the "rot" areas have consistent characteristics, a filter could be written to detect it and replace with an average of pixels in the field prior and field after. Detection analysis is the hard part.