Kraz3yIvan

Thank you, Emissary is sadly in the worst state of any of the SD locked episodes from #DS9 or #VOY (I can think of a few from VOY that run it close) but am excited at the potential to where it can go. Sadly some things like dynamic range (wrecked by tape mastering) need film remas to look stellar!

Thank you

Done a little bit more messing about with my fusion pipeline work (still need to test linear source with 32 bit depth for the math e.g. blur) but thought I could throw a few #VOY shots your way. Now with the nudge over to Rec 709

Here is a little of "Emissary" in motion - remember the upload to socials eats a lot of the image quality - but you get the idea. Even at this stage of the pipeline its night and day compared to the existing DVD!
Will get to see #DS9 regularly on an OLED and not throw up!

Manual IVTC done on Emissary the Star Trek #DS9 Pilot. Thats every single frame manually looked at (160K+) frames cadence processed, issues noted on select ones to fix later on in the process so things like dust, hair, laserdisc dropouts and other production issues. Here are pics from pre upscale

The Proteus Natural is not 'eating faces' like other AI Topaz models and does an OK job on chroma cleanup too. Shown here from S6 #VOY #Trek

Exactly right - they are on recorded calls lying to the customer about what they currently provide and what I would get. It’s a complete joke I’m just going to get rid asap and get my own leased line I think. You only seem to get respect when treated as a business it would seem

Incoming rant about my ISP here in the UK Virgin Media
What I used to get and what I now get. The problem here is I was called up and lied to about a new contract. They rang to move me to the slower deal and told me all was the same. When I rang them recently again lied to and tough luck basically!

So #ENT Star Trek Enterprise is another Trek show thats going to benefit from the colour correction work too!

Still missing some of the edge handling and dot crawl but pleased with the motion of this Odo morph now. Just getting it to look right at 23.976fps #DS9

Thanks - those are upscaled 1440x1080 and 4:3 it’s good that the AI just fades to background that’s what I’m aiming for - watchable on modern TV let the content speak for itself

An additional #DS9 'Emissary' test I ran with an alternate model. Thought i would put it up too. Again in two minds most of the time as its squarely in 'work in progress' and people can expect finished article. But hell its here to look at :)

Back to some #DS9 testing, evaluating some single topaz models (for S1) testing when and where to deploy them. This is still missing most of my pre processing clean up but its been IVTC right and has a very general (and correctly done) conversion to Rec 709. This is about as good as "click go" gets.

From the final moment of this week's #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy....

Also come to think about it, in DISCO (with the galaxy-spanning treasure hunt)
There is a Trill called Jinaal Bix about 800 years old and the trill authorities considered its age extraordinary but nearing the end.
Dax was 350 ish years old in DS9 now 800 years later just still A-OK 🫤
Consistent?

At the end of the episode the SAM character finds out his return 20 years later, oh wow what did he do?
Turns the page, cut to black - episode end.
There I made it better in a sentence.

RIP unborn child of Cassidy Yates and Capt Sisko. Annoyed about that too. It also messes up what Sisko said to Cassidy in a vision, and promised her that he would be back, "maybe (in) a year, maybe yesterday. But I will be back."

Should have had him returning like the DS9 S8 pitch but left it open

So this annoys me. Post burn where Starfleet is recovering from MANY years away you publicly talk about the most destructive thing known, that kills subspace and that in the 24th century was limited to Capt and flag officers to supress knowledge. Nothing bad could occur right, telling everyone?

No worries - I shall go into other topics on my channel and a few other non related things too. Appreciate you got something from it. Thanks for watching!

YouTube video by Kraz3yIvan_Tech How I handle interlacing / IVTC on my AI upscaling of DS9 and Voyager

So I did a video on my YT channel on handling IVTC with my stuff - plus I waffle about stuff in the beginning :)
Check it out if you want
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2g1...

A good visual of 4x3 standard presentation versus the #DS9 Documentaries approach with the rescan. You can see the extras bits missing from 4x3 and also how well the Laserdisc source manages through the current upscale pipeline
This is S1 "The Nagus"
Go see how crap this looks via streaming!

In AVISynth, defreq is a nice way to get rid of NTSC scanlines as shown here in a cleaned frame from the raw laserdisc output. I just wish it was re-written to handle 10+ bit. Its stuck in 8 bit land right now.

Bits of Star Trek #VOY will be pain. This is bob deinterlace slowed. Film, 24p origin is (top field first) prob telecined to 60i and VFX is (bottom field first), auth probably at 30i.
They overlaid these two things so the phaser blast animation is presented out of order. This is temporal heresy!

A Klingon afternoon..... #DS9 #DS9R

Seen the first episode of starfleet academy
blow that ship to hell! ... goes boom .... 'a teachable moment'..?!?
Really?? What about arresting them instead of killing them, you know to help cadets understand starfleet lol #startrek #trek #starfleetacademy

So I am about to watch the new Star Trek show - the intro bit for the 60th should put the Defiant and Voyager part through an SD tape mastered process with horrific combing and chroma issues.
It would be much more realistic in terms of where they have left 2 crown jewels of the IP, Last Trek in SD

I literally cannot watch the regular episodes now, either DVD or streaming
Since I have been working on these and Jonny solved a lot of the colour issues, the colours and general crap quality picture just make me nope the hell out of there.

#DS9 #Trek

Well its sharing pain time, I now cannot un-see this in every title run (of this version) #DS9
And now neither can you.... you're welcome

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This is just so nice to read in these frankly insane times in which we find ourselves.