Darth Nuno wrote:
To read the laser disc, I'm using a SONY LDP-3600 PAL/NTSC player
I've used that one before. I found the video to be somewhat noisy, but otherwise sharp with decent color.
Darth Nuno wrote:
My capture device is a simple USB capture 'Easycap' pal/ntsc
Interesting... I looked it up -- it uses a Philips SAA7113 video decoder chip, which is one of the better ones that has a comb 2D filter. It's not as fancy as the 3D decoders, but they trade one set of limitations/artifacts for another, so 2D is still a reasonable way to go.
Darth Nuno wrote:
For the moment, no compression at all for the "master".
You can cut down your file size significantly if you use the HuffYUV codec. It's lossless (sort of like a zip file), so you're not compromising the image quality at all. You should be able to cut your file size in half or more.
Also, if you have the option, don't capture in RGB -- use one of the YUV colorspaces instead (YUV, YUY2, UYVY.)
The brightness/contrast settings you are using are pretty good. Here's a waveform view of your ZolgSize3 sample:
Ideally, the values should be mostly between the dotted lines -- 16 should be full black and 235 full white. This is standard for analog-sourced broadcast video, since it gives you some extra room for signals that go slightly below black or above white.
If you bump your brightness down a notch or two, you'll probably be just about right. I'm a bit surprised by this; most capture devices default to a 0-255 scale, since that gives the maximum contrast. (It's also often used for digital-sourced content, as this will never go beyond black/white.) It's nice to see one that's more "proper" for a good quality capture of analog sources.
Good luck!
-Warren.