Saw this clip from another channel that i like, and notticed that in pursuit of enhancing some details, the texts were oversharpened, so i took the time to pick one of the best racing intros ive seen, into a 2021 upgrade.
This clip alone would require a class about content protection and the workaround on how these amazing people of Polyphony got the idea of how make dificult for anyone to rip and make use of the media on these games.
To make it simple, they created a video with the 448 pixels of height, with the deinterlace field separated in the video, in a way that any attemp to recreate the original would end in a quality lower than what a screen recorder would capture, because they put the first 224 fields on the upper part of the frame, and the 224 other frames in the lower section.
To make it even more simple, it is resumed as this
PS2--Mpeg2 Native Extraction -- Interlaced Fields Rebuild -- Proper Deinterlace -- Remaster
This way the details of the clip are untouched untill the deinterlace, something that created very little artfacts on the still texts where they jump by very small moments. More than a heavy issue i would call it a proof that there is too much details recovered, even maybe too much as this tend to happen on pretty sharp footage once you apply deinterlace.
Sadly i cant put the original audio for Copyright reasons, and knowing the situation decided to use an audio capture to get the audio, since that media was hidden on the disc.
