[REL] La Traversée du phare (1999), Les inséparables (2001)

[David32441]

Without that it's going to be 10x slower.

Yes, I can only use a bloody laptop .. Gives me about 1.5 sec/frame

Wait! You only get that speed when using Topaz? So you spend 2 days per 1080p upscale? But you've done so many! Thought you'd have some $3000 graphics card burning away!

[ghost]

Thought you'd have some $3000 graphics card

Unfortunatly not But I do it on 2 laptops at the same time. I don't save it as a mp4, but as an image sequence.

[David32441]

Thought you'd have some $3000 graphics card

Unfortunatly not But I do it on 2 laptops at the same time. I don't save it as a mp4, but as an image sequence.

Laptops have gotten good then! Thought you'd fry a laptop pushing it like that for 2 days!
I've probably said this before but from Topaz I encode to mp4 - it makes an aprox 50gb file at quality level 4 or so - where 0 would be lossless. Then I use handbrake for the final encode, no filters. Encode in "normal", at level 4.1, quality 18, single-pass. I do apply this optional encode limiter:
vbv-maxrate=6000: vbv-bufsize=2000 (limits datarate per second to 6000kb + the buffer... which is about 1mb/second). This stops some scenes (water/waves, etc) hogging data and the video spiking to megabytes/second - not usually scenes we're interested in

[David32441]

Here is a remux of La traversée du phare (1999), in case it helps. I used MakeMKV with the 7GB ISO posted here.
[Code] [Code] La traversée du phare 1999 DVD REMUX.mkv

It's the best quality version - but unfortunately I see it has some minor de-interlacing comb effects.
Do you have the original source the 50fps / DVD version?
I wonder if it could be improved by taking Ghost's advice (like I did on Starlight Hotel) and using QTGMC, the best known de-interlace tool?
Because this encode is already 25fps progressive I don't think this combing can be removed without going back a source level.
It's not always noticable, it's not present on all scenes - but it's not as good as it could be - that's all. Be interesting to get Ghost's thoughts!

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[DreamScape]

David32441, I posted the untouched PAL DVD on TNT: https://the.nextthing.club/showthread.p ... #pid140902
[Code] Password: TheNextThing

deadman posted a nearly identical DVD, except his has an added English subtitle: https://www.first-loves.com/forums/view ... =20#p85497

[David32441]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I've had issues with that 7.5gb ISO DVD rip of both films where I couldn't pull out just this film.

Anyway I did a Topaz 720p of the 3.3gb version. Only 1.35gb It's made a very watchable version - it just has the originals "slight" interlacing issue which is only visible in a few scenes:
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I also replaced the SUB file with a nice embedded English SRT file.
Sub files are ok for DVD. But sub files are effectively the equivalent of a transparent GIF with 720x576 resolution that DVD's used to store. The text edges look a lot harsher than subtitles in text format. SRT is text and renders much nicer.

[ghost]

Thanks David! I think this is the best version we ever had.

[emuler]

Sharing David32441's file. Btw. 1.21GB.
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[David32441]

Thanks David! I think this is the best version we ever had.

That's a nice compliment from the master of film-finding and upscaling

[ghost]

I would like to add my deinterlaced version:
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Well, you'll ask yourself: Why does this guy spend 2 days with a film, we already have in HD?

Finally I bought a new laptop with an Intel i7-11800H CPU and a NVidea RTX 3060 graphic card. It's like a dream and just soooo amazing!

Topaz is running like a racing horse (compared to my old laptop), I can do an upscale fom SD to HD in 3 - 4 hours now!!!