Is my encode better than the dvd? Did i use the correct AR when resizing?

[mmbwdpnz]

here are samples

[DB83]

I'll start this one off since I am bored right now.

Perhaps you should define 'better'

Was the original source film or video. It is my understanding that you would only reverse telecine for film. So the speed should be left at 29.97 fps.

By encoding at 23.97 fps, the encodes run length is slightly slower (4 secs). But that slowness will magnify on a longer play-time.

The DAR of the original is 4:3. The encode is also 4:3 so that is correct.

[mmbwdpnz]

The original source was field belded.

[mmbwdpnz]

As in not very noisy with out over blurring everything. Sharp like the original. And frame rate restored correctly. I think I did pretty good at that.

[mmbwdpnz]

Black bars that were on the original should be gone.and compression should be better since the original is horrible

[manono]

Yes, it looks OK. Good job with the unblending to the correct framerate.

[mmbwdpnz]

Thanks

[Selur]

I agree, the unblending is nice. How did your script for the unblending look like?

[mmbwdpnz]

global MeGUI_darx = 4
global MeGUI_dary = 3
LoadPlugin("C:\Users\Ryan\Desktop\MeGUI_dev[0.3.4.12]\MeGUI_dev\tools\dgindex\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\De.dll")
import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\QTGMC-3.32.avsi")
import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Srestore.avsi")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\RemoveGrainS.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\aWarpSharp2.dll")

DGDecode_mpeg2source("C:\SLAYERS_SEASON1_DISC1\VID EO_TS\VTS_01_1.d2v", CPU=6)
DeDot(luma2d=20, lumaT=20, chromaT1=0, chromaT2=255)
QTGMC()
Srestore(Frate=23.976)
RemoveGrain(mode=1)
AWarpSharp(depth=10.0, blurlevel=2)
crop(16, 0, -6, 0)
Lanczos4Resize(640,480) # Lanczos4 (Sharp)

[mmbwdpnz]

Do i need to remove anything unnecessary in the script? are there any faster plugins that do the same things as the plugins in my script? Any plugins I need to replace and update?

[Selur]

Using Avisynth MT would be a lot faster,...

[mmbwdpnz]

I dont have a dual core. Speed doesnt matter to me I do whats best for the quality. Though if there is anything that keeps the same quality and is faster thats ok.

[Selur]

are there any faster plugins that do the same things as the plugins in my script? ...
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Speed doesnt matter to me I do whats best for the quality.

okay,....

I dont have a dual core.

you encode on a single core machine?

Cu Selur

[mmbwdpnz]

yes sadly New laptop soon though

[poisondeathray]

You're allowed to crop interlaced material horizontally with mod2 restrictions, so if you put the crop before QTGMC, it might be ~1-2% faster (fewer pixels to process for QTGMC and the other filters like RemoveGrain, AwarpSharp)

You can choose a faster QTGMC preset if it's too slow for you (do some comparisons; the default "slower" is usually not much different visually than say something like "fast", but it's a hell of a lot faster , expecially on a single core)

I haven't looked at your encode, but beware of green border pixels issue using AwarpSharp (some people get it, some don't. I don't know why. Thats the reason the newer AwarpSharp2 was written)

[mmbwdpnz]

Im using awarpsharp2 no green border problems. I've moved the crop too. QTGMC() Im going to leave alone the results i got with the default settings were beautiful. Thank you for your help

[ChibiBoi]

I tried using SRestore with some of my Sailor Moon footage, but it ended up getting really stuttery whenever the video would pan across the scenery

[mmbwdpnz]

Love sailor moon my favorite anime I will help u wit anything sailor moon related lol

[ChibiBoi]

Love sailor moon my favorite anime I will help u wit anything sailor moon related lol

Well, I kind of gave up on trying to get rid of the blended frames LOL so I just run QTGMC and add fastdegrain leaving everything at 29.970

[mmbwdpnz]

Thats no good post ur script.r u working wit r1 footage? CWI or DIC dub?

[ChibiBoi]

Thats no good post ur script.r u working wit r1 footage? CWI or DIC dub?

I'm working off the fansub VHS tapes that I have, and when I tried restoring the frames, I just used:
QTGMC()
SRestore(frate=23.976)
Fastdegrain

But the problem was I guess it was getting rid of the wrong frames? Or it wasn't calculating it properly? idk.
My main problem now though is getting rid of the thousands of dropped frames that I keep getting. I've tried a lot of things

[manono]

Thats no good post ur script.r u working wit r1 footage? CWI or DIC dub?

I'm working off the fansub VHS tapes that I have, and when I tried restoring the frames, I just used:
QTGMC()
SRestore(frate=23.976)
Fastdegrain

That's no good without a sample.

[mmbwdpnz]

Very true we need the full script and the sample video

[ChibiBoi]

That's no good without a sample.

I don't have a sample at the moment since I stopped worrying about the problem a long time ago, and I don't have the sample script either since I deleted that too when I gave up lol so I'm not sure where the problem was (although maybe now I'm thinking I might have added fpsdivisor=2 as a parameter to qtgcm and that's what caused the problem?)

but my main issue is the dropped frames during capturing, if you guys want to help out, I have a thread about it https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/352930-Thousands-of-dropped-frames%21%21-O

But are any of you experiencing jittery video during panning scenes while using srestore?

[hello_hello]

Do i need to remove anything unnecessary in the script? are there any faster plugins that do the same things as the plugins in my script? Any plugins I need to replace and update?

Do RemoveGrain and AWarpSharp achieve much after using QTGMC? I've used QTGMC now and then myself and can't imagine trying to remove more noise or add additional sharpening after QTGMC would achieve much aside from making the picture look less natural, given QTGMC is pretty good at doing both (I haven't looked at your sample though).

[mmbwdpnz]

Take a look its one of my best on old sources. Warsharpening is a different kind of sharpening then regular convulsion based sharpening. It warps the image and thins lines removing grain and sharpening all at once. U dont want to over warp the image though. Remove grain barely blurs anything on mode 1 it just helps with compression

[hello_hello]

Well you got me curious so I've had a preliminary play with warpsharpening. I can't encode anything at the moment as the PC is already busy doing that, but just previewing frames in a script with it running after QTGMC to a script without it..... well it'll probably be tomorrow before I can encode with it, but so far I'm preferring QTGMC on it's own. Early days though..... once I've run a couple of encodes and can compare the two in real time I might discover I'm wrong.