Lucky Girl aka My Daughter's Secret Life (2001) Elisha Cuthbert (720p H264 9818Kbps VEAI DVD)

Lucky Girl aka My Daughter's Secret Life (2001) Elisha Cuthbert (720p H264 9818Kbps VEAI DVD)


Kaitlyn is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain of debt. Her habit also causes a high degree of family tension.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279204/

Screencaps:




I think Elisha Cuthbert likes doing films where getting into trouble is the norm.

This was not easy to find (it's not even on her wiki). I ended up getting a Japanese DVD from a Japanese seller (shipping cost more than the DVD). As this is not likely to come out on Bluray (or a highdef web stream), I spent a month with VEIA 1.6.1 and 1.2.0, Virtualdub2, Avisynth, QTGMC and various denoisers and sharpeners. The best I could get was 650p. Then VEIA 1.8.0 was released. Using the new Artemis-MQv9 and a totally different strategy with QTGMC, noise reduction, and sharpening, I was able to get a realistic looking 720p.

The amount of film grain noise on the DVD was very high. Doing noise reduction in QTGMC killed any hope of 720p. FluxSmoothST was the best NR I could find, however any reduction in the source detail limited VEAI to below my target of 720p. Then VEAI 1.8.0 came out, and the new Artemis models are unlike anything I've seen, able to find detail while eliminating noise (even better than VEAI 1.2.0 Artemis-MQ). I was able to run QTGMC as only a deinterlacer (using -Vit-'s deinterlace only settings), preserving maximum detail for VEAI. To sharpen the final output, I tried CAS, which is good with real highdef, but it caused an astigmatism effect. Best results here were with a touch of vsMSharpen (strength=40).

I created subtitles via OCR of the stream's .idx and .sub files plus editing with SubtitleEdit.

Software used: Virtualdub2, VirtualdubMPEG2, Huffyuv, Lagarith, Avisynth, QTGMC, FluxSmoothST, vsMSharpen, Video Enhance AI 1.2.0, 1.6.1, and 1.8.0, Irfanview, x264, SubtitleEdit, MkvMerge, MkvExtract. Windows XP, 7, and 10.


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