Having been inspired by Star Trek Deep Space Nine Upscale Deep Space Nine Upscale I decided I would have a stab at upscaling my Def Leppard In the round in your face DVD which is NTSC 4x3 and not only Upscale but color grade and do i wide 16x9 aspect ratio using a program for stretching the sides like the TV’s used to do in the 90’s this would leave the middle intact but stretch the side.
Superview
I would than mix the stretched version with scenes cut from the 4x3 in 16x9 all in 4k, I used filmora 11 for this.
As most of the view of the concert is centered there wasn’t too many scenes that needed swapping to the cut 16x9 version.
Also as you can see from the compare 4x3 shots the DVD had a kind of bronze yellow tint throughout the show , this might have been the intention back in 1988 but it wont do for 2022 .
I first loaded with DGINDEX and than staxrip with qtgmc with these settings.
AssumeTFF()
QTGMC(preset="medium", InputType=0, EZKeepGrain=0.5, sourceMatch=2, MatchPreset="Very Slow", Lossless=2, sharpness=0.1, tr2=0, Sbb=0)
Than loaded in Topaz with Proteus fine tune first upscaling to HD than 4k
Some compare shots below
View these on imgsli and compare
some widescreen
