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Old 9th November 2020, 20:47   #30  |  Link
Ghitulescu
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Oh dear
yet another thread where the initiator has far less competences than his ambitions...

Cutey Honey was a rather beloved anime and it was once that the internet was full of all kind of "restorations", which (now that you provided a copy of the DVD they probably originated) were worse than the source (Indian movies come to mind ). Not to mention the hideous 6 lines of double subtitles (Japanese and Italian or Spanish), covering half of the frame and the final aggressive recompression that killed all the "restoration work" they did (think only of blocking and mosquito noise).

If the "restoration" was just a simple choice of filters and some tweaks (one-fits-all scheme), don't you think it was this obvious also for the producers to use them? They also benefited from the calibration marks (if got the originals), which you don't have and only guess, the original scan files you don't have (but rather a distribution format) and other things.

In one thing you were right - proper restorations are done frame by frame, but without loosing the big picture.

Anyway, if you do not consider yourself reading some documentation, you may search a bit the forum, read here a bit, there another bit, one third of all the posts written in the last decade was concerned only with anime (please raise hands those restoring Disney cartoons ) and inspire from there...
Otherwise, asking StainlessS or videoh for help, it's like they that did the restoring not you.
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