Watch out for those CDs. The reflective backing tends to peal off with age, humidity, or moisture, & also is easily scratched off. It turns out your tapes & vinyl records may actually last longer. DVDs are more durable because the reflective surface is coated on both side with clear plastic... That's something they figured out after they discovered CDs don't last. Also if it was a home recorded CD, the substance that is actually the encoded layer spoils with age, heat, or bright light like sunlight. Some brands hold up a little better than others though.
At a few points you get to just sit back & let the machines do the work once you got it set up just right doing stuff like this. But to take an hour to work on a clip less than a minute long, means it wouldn't be practical to work on an entire YCDTOTV episode or movie because it would take days to finish. Unless somebody is paying me for all the time it would take, I'm not going to enhance full episodes or movies of anything.
However, if the video was fair quality to start with, I've taken DVD or Super-VHS quality 400-480p video, & ran them through a machine for 15-40 minutes to get them looking as good as broadcast quality 720p HDTV with some software. I've cleaned up some nice footage from the 1940s & 50s of some steam locomotives that way, & they look excellent now. About 16-30 minutes to do an hour of video. But there not much to work with, with stuff like YCDTOTV episodes. So what little that can be done with them, has to be done slowly, manually.
I experimented trying to enhance the crossdressing clip of the very first episode of YCDTOTV. The results were less than spectacular. I tried for hours to do it several different ways to get it to look as good as possible, but it only is a little bit improved.
And that was one of the clearer episodes. Most of their other episodes look like shyt by comparison, so I might not ever bother to try.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnpAJvrrYSI
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