RocketSwitch625UK, on 21 May 2013 - 07:31 PM, said:
Everyone should be made aware of the fact that thewonderman copied and pasted that message from a comment I posted on YouTube back in February. At the time, I was making a mini documentary about why I think the "Alien Interview" video is real. It is now available to watch on YouTube.
I don't understand the steps you are recommending.
GIF is a lossy image format as it can only handle 256 images and thus degrades anything that originally had more colours. The dithering used in producing GIFs can be really awful looking.
Why convert to GIF anyway? If you have the video in a digital format, why convert to another format when you can just use appropriate video software to examine the frames individually or just take screendumps to examine?
What is the resolution of the remastered video you are recommending to use? If it's something like DVD or lower resolution, then a HD monitor isn't going to improve anything. When lower-res images or video are displayed full screen on a higher-res screen, it's typically stretched out by interpolation which basically involves smearing the image out over a larger area. A HD monitor isn't a magical tool for examining images. A monitor lower than the resolution of the input video will degrade the quality, a monitor of higher resolution than the input video won't allow you to see anything you couldn't be viewing it on a monitor of equal resolution to the video. If anything, it'll disimprove it as interpolation artefacts become obvious if a video or image is stretched too much to a higher resolution.
Edited by Archimedes, 25 May 2013 - 03:46 PM.