On my R&D testing to do list, looking at emulating the USC Video AI pipeline of going 8bit - 16bit HDR EXR files, I think I will have their tone mapping colour issue fixed. Then colour channel splitting work mentioned in a corridor crew video recently so R,G and B separately into the AI upscale!

True Story.

More shots from the Davinci render of Seans work - its not had any of the colour correction work yet (this is #StarTrekVoyager Season 7) so there is that. Still early days on this render pipeline in fusion too. Its very much a starter for ten!

Gah, I can barely look at the "standard" SD DVD anymore. Especially all the colour issues. #DS9 #DS9R

Looking over some excellent work done by my friend sean, aiming to get his fusion node tree to exe more efficiently in Davinci Resolve as it works but its slow atm. Its replicating his stellar AVISynth design on masking etc. I have a few ideas to test, here are some pre-grain injection shot of #VOY

So #DS9 via @ds9redefined.bsky.social is cooking through Season 2, take a look 👀😎✨🆒 This remember is LaserDisc sourced and upscaled...

Spending an age sorting the folder structure so it manageable all 14 seasons of DS9 & VOY Ended up with this where each ep folder will house everything about it. Bare in mind this folder does not have my FFV1 archival LD copies yet or my working files, scripts etc Thank god for big NASes 😉💾

"Sir we've had a 98% restoration of the Krenim empire" .... I feel his pain with a nearly solid AI model upscaling run ruined by the odd weird face and eyes @ mid range.

For those Nerds interested in the stacking of laserdiscs - since its analog data we can improve it with stacking copies (similar to astrophotography techniques) Here you can see it rejected 31 frames, also see some frames it got rid of and how it monitors via MSE (Mean Square Error)

Probably posted this before but I do like that Laserdisc raw images smoke the god awful DVDs early seasons.

Having fun with depth maps! 😁 #DS9

Team found something interesting. "Babel" and "Captive Pursuit" look like they had a different transfer process to DVD. They've got dot crawl like this ... (check images) Our guess has been that for the DVD transfers they used a composite to component conversion that only had a 2D filter. [Cont]

A wild S2 #DS9 appears .... :) #DS9R

Playing around with my friends Dot crawl Mask again. The rough logic of the mask is it rotates the image and uses three (technically six) comb detectors to roughly find dot crawl, and it uses an alternative 1x AI processed clip to gen a chroma edge mask to limit the detection to chroma edges.

Just some upscaled #DS9 screenshots from the @ds9redefined.bsky.social Project. I'm just getting back into the swing of things after summer and holidays. Lots to do in the limited spare time i get! Hope everyone is well 🖖

Want to see some before and after of DVD v Laserdisc colours n all - check out here ds9redefined.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t...

It is fun going over old forum posts - here is April 2006 (a new rig arrives) Blast from the past..... Opty 170 CPU :) PS - that motherboard from DFI was defective, the one before that was legendary!

"Is that it?" Some more of Ethuryl's work here! #DS9 youtu.be/fbrs7cOFjj8

Interesting looking at #StarTrekVoyager Season 4 DVDs Its a season with a really bad magenta swing. Something deffo went pear shaped in the DVD authoring of that season as the Laserdiscs are not affected. Anyone know anyone in the know from that time? Could be a setting was out, mishandling BT 601

Got to love prep work 😀 lossless mp4s from Laserdisc So begins a lot of pre-prep. Getting each episode into a "ready to go" master state is the next step, so if I want to (in the future) air drop the latest tech on them Its a lot of iterative work at the moment, you need it all rdy 2 go @ Ep1

Some other random shows from DVD ..... also winning!

Hot off the press sneak peak look at the work JonnyPoe (a fwend) has been cooking up. We figured the colourspace and gamma conversion to 470m previously but something was still bugging us on wayward colours. Thats fixed now - he'll be documenting it soon - works on nearly all DVDs/LDs all look 👍

Ethuryl has hit version 3 on the Season 1 #DS9 recreation... now with more wormhole :-) Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bo...

Its weird man - my brain just paints the rest of this in! haha #DS9

Found some childhood drawings by me looking through some old folders/books a while back - thought I would share here - quite pleased with my meshing of Chaos together!! #Warhammer40K #W40K I did love my combat cards! Still got them all as well, plus a good few White Dwarf magazines.

Why is this important (Depth mapping and masking) well remember this is old SD land video in modern terms its tiny 640x480 essentially, with less than 4% the pixel count of 4K the AI upscaler does not have much to work with, and they can be a bit dumb and treat all parts of the image the same (1/3)

Ain't Depth mapping fun! Some testing with Video Depth Anything here on "Q-less" S1 #DS9 - the aim is to layer various masks and AI upscales to almost emulate photoshops layers but with video 😄 Check it out here... github.com/DepthAnythin...

With proper colour space and correct gamma sorted it been nice to look at some season 2 #DS9 Upscaled here by @ds9redefined.bsky.social

So @ds9redefined.bsky.social is briefly back on the hunt for laserdiscs! Anyone with copies of #DS9 season 2 NTSC-J (Japanese version)?? It looks like the following image here

Again showing off some @ds9redefined.bsky.social work from Season 2, #DS9 upscaled goodness sourced from Laserdisc, this has the 470m colour space fix baked in..... Here is S2 DS9 "The Siege" enjoy

Latest blog post over at DS9:Redefined in case you missed it ... ds9redefined.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/l...

So here is some @ds9redefined.bsky.social work here, sneaky peek. To help you out this is from "Caretaker" #VOY What changed?? 😉😉☺️🙌

For everyone's enjoyment, lets look at Ethuryl's work here. A little #DS9 rework :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdY...

One additional step I am adding in, even with all the dropout correction done on laserdisc stacking u must go over the episode frame by frame and applying the dust buster effect manually to cover dropouts, there is a lot and no really effective way to automate this but its so worth the effort! #DS9

Yeah ..... so DVD shows being in the wrong colour format - let me show you some things - I'll label them exhibit A :)

Here is S1 DS9 in motion, Still testing, had teething issues with the AI model Starlight mini and some FFV1 bother. But its been IVTC'd only - no pre work done yet, so no dot crawl removal, checkerboarding, gibbs ringing etc No 'post' work either Still gives you an idea of LD possibilities ... #DS9

Testing the Starlight mini AI model on some #DS9 S1 "Q-Less" here. Laserdisc sourced, trying to ascertain if this model prefers a bigger canvas to start from than DVD size..... anyway enjoy the shots here 👍 And yes topaz need to teach it Trek comm badges, it hates them haha! #Topaz #Starlight

Planning to use Davinci Resolve and its NR to get rid of scanline artifacts etc pre upscaling - just using the minimum amount I can get away with. Here is LaserDisc raw data (from S1 Q-Less #DS9) with that done - this is going to be part of my pre upscale pipeline work, post is layering/grading etc

How close is the LD raw (with no upscaling, tweaks and just the proper conversion settings to Rec 709) to the 35mm rescanned and colour graded footage from the #DS9 Documentary - well here you go, this is a great results that should make my life much easier! ♥️ ... sad I cannot match the widescreen!

Ahh but what does the raw laserdisc work you've been doing look like with this new fanjangled whatsits! ... happy to show some raw pre anything done other than conversion from laserdisc TBC data 🪄 #DS9

So here is what the difference looks like from this investigated and recommended setting of fcc:bt470m:bt470m Versus bt601... Looking here at the bits of SD content they could not find for the TNG Remaster - aiming to inject our own 'better' version with new tech AND correct source settings 😊

Comparing Colour Matrix on the #DS9 DVDs is funnnn !

Sneak Peak (using DVD) me and Jonny boy have figured something out no one else seems aware of. More details later on - once more checking is done but I suspect the 90s were the Wild West 😃🙃😁🖖

And now we come to the end of Season 4 #StarTrekVoyager. "Hope and Fear" the last episode to stack from laserdisc NTSC-J (Japanese) - there is a Season 5 on laserdisc but by that time DVD got their act together and its superior to upscale from. Loved showing u raw LD stick with me as we upscale!

And we now hit "One" everyone goes sleepy time and 7 of 9 gets to run the ship! 2nd to last episode of Season 4 #StarTrekVoyager and again laserdisc sourced as all good posts are! enjoy

And up next is "Demon" - slight issue here is the low power situation (in the episode) meant low lights and SD 90s tape editing was TERRA-bad at dynamic range so we suffer with SD sourcing. This needs the 35mm film Anyway #StarTrekVoyager laserdisc coming at you ONLY 2 EPISODES TO GO - THEN DONE!

I know its naughty, but I would watch a series of 'Dark' Voyager imagined in this next episode "Living Witness" from Season 4 #StarTrekVoyager Everyone looks to be having a lot of fun in this - laserdisc sourced and stacked from multiple episode copies. Enjoy the raw shots!

Here you go everyone - a test sample render from the episode "Dax" in #DS9 S1! This is with the new Starlight model, learning what makes it tick hence the testing. Lots of good, bad and ugly here 😄 It HATES Trek comm badges, and I can see some 'swimming' textures and detail errors. Enjoy anyway!

Some test #DS9 shots from Season 1 (go back and watch how terra-bad the DVDs are!) from the episode "Dax" Using #Topaz AI upscaling and their new Starlight Mini AI model running locally - looking quite shiny here at 200%! Remember this is pre post work so no grain, colour work etc

As we get towards the end of the season, we hit "Unforgettable" and I've forgotten a lot about this episode, so will need a rewatch of S4 #StarTrekVoyager ! Laserdisc stacked episode here as usual - enjoy!