Need help to improve PQ and compressability of Stargate SG1

[tetsuo55]

Hey everyone,

I recently got the original PAL boxed set of Stargate SG1.

Starting with the first season i noticed some problems with the source(i bet most of you have already seen these problems)

-The image is a bit on the soft side
-The episodes where filmed with 16mm film, and the grain is painfully visable
-I'm not sure if the grain is to blame or the low bitrate, but especially in the shadows there are visable flashing blocks
-Colors seem a bit strange on monitor, but look okay(still not great) on a crt tv(i want it to look good on monitor)


Now the grain and flashing blocks take up a lot of the bitrate, so i was hoping to do the following:

-Clean up some of the grain and flashing blocks so the image looks better
-Remove some of the grain to increase compressability
-Sharpen the image a bit to get rid of the softness
-Fix the colors
-The image is anamorphic but has some dark lines on all sides, should these be removed?

Currently i had the following in mind:

FFT3DFILTER(sigma=0.6, bw=14, bh=14, ow=7, oh=7, bt=2, dehalo=1, hr=1, sharpen=0)
grainoptimizer()
SeeSaw(NRlimit=0, NRlimit2=5, Sstr=2.22, Szp=1, Slimit=9, Sdamplo=16, Spower=1, sootheT=95, SdampHi=39)
ColorMatrix(Mode="Rec.601->Rec.709",clamp=false)

will this be enough?

I posted some screencaps (jpg compression makes it look a bit worse)