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    Originally Posted by DMS View Post
    Feel free to use the last capture I attached in this thread https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/401454-Best-settings-using-Virtual-Dub-to-correct-...rk-VHS-capture
    I am keen to see how well it will clean it up.
    I did it!


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    Originally Posted by DMS View Post
    Feel free to use the last capture I attached in this thread https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/401454-Best-settings-using-Virtual-Dub-to-correct-...rk-VHS-capture
    I am keen to see how well it will clean it up.
    I did it!


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    1. what the frick did you do with the audio?!

    2. it looks so fake and processed. it has that plastic feeling to it
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    Originally Posted by s-mp View Post
    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    Originally Posted by DMS View Post
    Feel free to use the last capture I attached in this thread https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/401454-Best-settings-using-Virtual-Dub-to-correct-...rk-VHS-capture
    I am keen to see how well it will clean it up.
    I did it!


    Download it!
    https://sendgb.com/KqBf0uDX6d4
    1. what the frick did you do with audio?!

    2. it looks so fake and processed. it has that plastic feeling to it
    You call it fake, simply because it was so good in the reality.
    Where is your version?

    HEre is my other version.....
    https://sendgb.com/vrgNV6SqU7p

    Just try to make better. :P

    You can not!

    It has more real detail (not noise or fake detail) than the original video!

    Neat video even could give back the invisible, unreadable text of the noisy calendar video. Incredible, but the text of the calendar literally resurrected...
    There is no other denoiser on the market which can do that!
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    The video in better color range, because previous was not good, it was washed out.

    https://sendgb.com/lmZ8pv3M19e

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    I got that stupid Covid, but When I will recover, I willl make the SCENE 3 parliament video for Herr/Gebieter Selur.
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    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    The video in better color range, because previous was not good, it was washed out.

    https://sendgb.com/lmZ8pv3M19e
    Is the the result? Where's the corresponding original source?

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    Originally Posted by davexnet View Post
    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    The video in better color range, because previous was not good, it was washed out.

    https://sendgb.com/lmZ8pv3M19e
    Is the the result? Where's the corresponding original source?
    Read #121

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    Sorry, I meant this one.
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    One of the signs of trolls is they quote the entire post including pictures, I've seen it before with baydav, Probably the same guy re-registerd as Truthler.

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    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    One of the signs of trolls is they quote the entire post including pictures, I've seen it before with baydav, Probably the same guy re-registerd as Truthler.
    Baseless accusation is not a nice thing, neither the personal attacks (which is fallacy).
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    Of course this 'wonderful' version does not match the clip the poster wanted to see.


    But the 'wonderful' version is rubbish. I only have one 'good' eye but Will Hay never appeared in cartoons.


    As for the clip the poster wants to improve that may not be possible since it is already compromised and any 'improvement' will just make it worse.


    No need for name calling. I do not think that the OP is Babygav. But the whole topic is an exercise in trolling and I had hoped that the OP would just go away and actually learn how to use the program and not, as it appears, to claim that sharpening is noise removal.


    But I am equally sorry to read that the OP has a 'dose'. Just use your isolation time valuably. But, equally, do us all a favour and forget about any more samples. No one will waste their time in downloading and assess them.

  12. Originally Posted by Truthler View Post

    You call it fake, simply because it was so good in the reality.
    Where is your version?

    HEre is my other version.....
    https://sendgb.com/vrgNV6SqU7p

    Just try to make better. :P

    You can not!

    It has more real detail (not noise or fake detail) than the original video!

    No. It's overdenoised and oversharpened. s-mp calls it "fake" because it looks unnatural . "fake" might be a slightly confusing term in this context

    Amount of denoising is "subjective" and people prefer varying degrees - but it's indisputable that there is texture and detail loss, oversharpening with halos in that Neat Video version.

    Here are some apng's . They should animate in most browsers (if they don't click on them and open in new window). I'll also include them in a zip. The "original" levels have been adjusted similar to Truthler's version, so it's easier to compare

    Look at the stone textures in the background. There is a patch of smoothness blurred away above guy's head. Stones have details and textures around that patch and in different frames, but there is an area of ''blur" It looks very unnatural.
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    Look at the loss of detail on the jacket - whereas before you can make out fabric textures, they are blurred and smeared away by those Neat Video settings. Even if you look at the Neat version alone, parts of the jacket have fabric textures, parts are blurred away - again it looks unnatural
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    This happens when the temporal settings are too high. It happens with other denoisers with too strong settings as well, not just Neat Video

    This is classic "overdoing" it - this is the type of thing that gives Neat Video a bad reputation. Many people think Neat Video "sucks" because of stuff posted like this - they think neat video can only degrade the video like this. But it's adjustable

    The goal is to reduce noise, but keep details, NOT destroy and oversmooth details.

    Neat Video is very good for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but it's very easy to overdo it.



    Neat video even could give back the invisible, unreadable text of the noisy calendar video. Incredible, but the text of the calendar literally resurrected...
    There is no other denoiser on the market which can do that!

    Yes, it does a good job in terms of text/writing clarity - but free open source workflow with denoisers can get similar results on the calendar.

    I demonstrated a starting point with smdegrain in the earlier post. If you sharpen that, you get similar results to the Neat Video results posted. (e.g. add nonlinusm(str=0.6, rad=5) ) .

    Sharpening is not really the same thing "denoising" . But you can include other filters too with open source workflow too - in fact I suggested it earlier.

    The problem is the Neat Video settings you used, sharpens/enhances the noise too much and that obscures some of the typed text - so the results are not as clear

    Here are some cropped apngs. Same deal with animating, try clicking or open in new window if they don't animate, or check the zip below. The text is less clear Neat Video version. There are blurred artifacts over some, oversharpened noise artifacts around others that obscures the legibility. The handwriting is less clear too for the Neat Video version. e.g. 31 is "Farkas" on the 1st one . Or 23 "Brigitta" in the 2nd one . Check the full frame versions in the zip. This is the same 466 frame from before. Truthler's is ~453, because of his framedrops. The sharpened errors and noise around text in Neat Video reduce the text legibility

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    As mentioned earlier, if you pre stabilized, apply smdegrain, sharpen, the end result in terms of typed and written text legibility is BETTER than what you used in Neat Video.

    But now we're talking about other steps, part of a full workflow, not just "denoising". Apples and oranges.



    You could improve Neat Video results too... by using it with other filters and programs.

    And you can improve all of them farther by adjusting contrast using curves in a limited range to enhance text / handwriting (you could do that for neat video too)

    Neat video is a very good denoiser and useful tool, but you can often get similar results with other free tools (albeit slower, and more difficult to use). And there are many scenarios and noise types where Neat Video just cannot compete as a denoiser, or you need or use other tools and techniques to make it more useful . I can post some examples if you want, I already mentioned a few
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    Originally Posted by poisondeathray View Post
    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post

    You call it fake, simply because it was so good in the reality.
    Where is your version?

    HEre is my other version.....
    https://sendgb.com/vrgNV6SqU7p

    Just try to make better. :P

    You can not!

    It has more real detail (not noise or fake detail) than the original video!

    No. It's overdenoised and oversharpened. s-mp calls it "fake" because it looks unnatural . "fake" might be a slightly confusing term in this context

    Amount of denoising is "subjective" and people prefer varying degrees - but it's indisputable that there is texture and detail loss, oversharpening with halos in that Neat Video version.

    Here are some apng's . They should animate in most browsers (if they don't click on them and open in new window). I'll also include them in a zip. The "original" levels have been adjusted similar to Truthler's version, so it's easier to compare

    Look at the stone textures in the background. There is a patch of smoothness blurred away above guy's head. Stones have details and textures around that patch and in different frames, but there is an area of ''blur" It looks very unnatural.
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    Look at the loss of detail on the jacket - whereas before you can make out fabric textures, they are blurred and smeared away by those Neat Video settings. Even if you look at the Neat version alone, parts of the jacket have fabric textures, parts are blurred away - again it looks unnatural
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    This happens when the temporal settings are too high. It happens with other denoisers with too strong settings as well, not just Neat Video

    This is classic "overdoing" it - this is the type of thing that gives Neat Video a bad reputation. Many people think Neat Video "sucks" because of stuff posted like this - they think neat video can only degrade the video like this. But it's adjustable

    The goal is to reduce noise, but keep details, NOT destroy and oversmooth details.

    Neat Video is very good for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but it's very easy to overdo it.



    Neat video even could give back the invisible, unreadable text of the noisy calendar video. Incredible, but the text of the calendar literally resurrected...
    There is no other denoiser on the market which can do that!

    Yes, it does a good job in terms of text/writing clarity - but free open source workflow with denoisers can get similar results on the calendar.

    I demonstrated a starting point with smdegrain in the earlier post. If you sharpen that, you get similar results to the Neat Video results posted. (e.g. add nonlinusm(str=0.6, rad=5) ) .

    Sharpening is not really the same thing "denoising" . But you can include other filters too with open source workflow too - in fact I suggested it earlier.

    The problem is the Neat Video settings you used, sharpens/enhances the noise too much and that obscures some of the typed text - so the results are not as clear

    Here are some cropped apngs. Same deal with animating, try clicking or open in new window if they don't animate, or check the zip below. The text is less clear Neat Video version. There are blurred artifacts over some, oversharpened noise artifacts around others that obscures the legibility. The handwriting is less clear too for the Neat Video version. e.g. 31 is "Farkas" on the 1st one . Or 23 "Brigitta" in the 2nd one . Check the full frame versions in the zip. This is the same 466 frame from before. Truthler's is ~453, because of his framedrops. The sharpened errors and noise around text in Neat Video reduce the text legibility

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    As mentioned earlier, if you pre stabilized, apply smdegrain, sharpen, the end result in terms of typed and written text legibility is BETTER than what you used in Neat Video.

    But now we're talking about other steps, part of a full workflow, not just "denoising". Apples and oranges.



    You could improve Neat Video results too... by using it with other filters and programs.

    And you can improve all of them farther by adjusting contrast using curves in a limited range to enhance text / handwriting (you could do that for neat video too)

    Neat video is a very good denoiser and useful tool, but you can often get similar results with other free tools (albeit slower, and more difficult to use). And there are many scenarios and noise types where Neat Video just cannot compete as a denoiser, or you need or use other tools and techniques to make it more useful . I can post some examples if you want, I already mentioned a few

    Why didn't you used the latest version?
    Why do you call rapidly changing paterns on the wall as "deatail"? Real detail don1t change rapidly. So it is not detail but noise. Neat video restored the original look of the stone coverage of the wall precisely, the original video you can not see that clearly.

    It also restored the real faces and skins. Vibrating rapidly chaning noise pattern is not real detail of the skin, but noise!





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    No wonder that you did not post your version of denoised video on sendGB, because you can not make good quality denoise with free tools.


    The text in your example of calendar video is less clear, and a noise level is higher around it... So just you proved that you werre unable to reproduce the quality of my denoise. Why can't you admit, that free tools can not do good job?
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    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    Why didn't you used the latest version?
    He used your samples. So tell me, why aren't you using the latest version?

    Why do you call rapidly changing paterns on the wall as "deatail"? Real detail don1t change rapidly. So it is not detail but noise.
    It's a brick. If you have a brick that rapidly changes pattern, then please contact a ufologist. That Roswell debris has been missing for decades.

    The text in your example of calendar video is less clear,
    No. Your sample required squinting and guessing at what many of the letters might be. The smdegrain had almost none of that. I could actually read it.

    Why can't you admit, that free tools can not do good job?
    Why are you worshipping software? It's just a tool for a task, and not one of the better ones. I do not understand this mentality. Neat Video (like Topaz) mostly has a dummy-friendly GUI (for better or worse). That's really the main benefit. Not the power or quality of the actual functions of the software. Yes, I wish Avisynth had better GUI and documentation (my gripe for 20 years now), but I'm not going to sacrifice quality for a GUI. Some folks are willing to sacrifice quality, but it's generally due to laziness ("Avisynth is hard, wah!") or lack of knowledge of video restoration. I'm sure as hell not going to pretend that a mere GUI magically makes software better at the core function (ie, restoring video). As pointed out, with tweaking (NOT the default values!), Neat Video has some uses. Not better than Avisynth, but it can function decently in some situations. That's always been the case. But I'm not paying for something inferior.

    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    One of the signs of trolls is they quote the entire post including pictures, I've seen it before with baydav, Probably the same guy re-registerd as Truthler.
    Probably.
    Lots of links is another, and very often the linked content has nothing to do with the conversation.
    VH has had trolls since the days of Gina, and arguably even kwag.
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    Wow, that Gina thing is interesting, That was 2 years before I was an active member here so I must have missed it, When you see those signs in the members posts it is a good time to report to the suicide hotline.

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    Originally Posted by lordsmurf View Post
    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    Why didn't you used the latest version?
    He used your samples. So tell me, why aren't you using the latest version?

    Why do you call rapidly changing paterns on the wall as "deatail"? Real detail don1t change rapidly. So it is not detail but noise.
    It's a brick. If you have a brick that rapidly changes pattern, then please contact a ufologist. That Roswell debris has been missing for decades.

    The text in your example of calendar video is less clear,
    No. Your sample required squinting and guessing at what many of the letters might be. The smdegrain had almost none of that. I could actually read it.

    Why can't you admit, that free tools can not do good job?
    Why are you worshipping software? It's just a tool for a task, and not one of the better ones. I do not understand this mentality. Neat Video (like Topaz) mostly has a dummy-friendly GUI (for better or worse). That's really the main benefit. Not the power or quality of the actual functions of the software. Yes, I wish Avisynth had better GUI and documentation (my gripe for 20 years now), but I'm not going to sacrifice quality for a GUI. Some folks are willing to sacrifice quality, but it's generally due to laziness ("Avisynth is hard, wah!") or lack of knowledge of video restoration. I'm sure as hell not going to pretend that a mere GUI magically makes software better at the core function (ie, restoring video). As pointed out, with tweaking (NOT the default values!), Neat Video has some uses. Not better than Avisynth, but it can function decently in some situations. That's always been the case. But I'm not paying for something inferior.

    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    One of the signs of trolls is they quote the entire post including pictures, I've seen it before with baydav, Probably the same guy re-registerd as Truthler.
    Probably.
    Lots of links is another, and very often the linked content has nothing to do with the conversation.
    VH has had trolls since the days of Gina, and arguably even kwag.

    Again, why didn't he used the latest version of my denoised video , and making comparison with that? Because he knows, it is much better than what he can produce with free tools.

    Yes, the original video was so bad quality that brick changed their places like in tetris, vibrated etc.


    About the calendar video. I really suggest to go to eye doctor, and change diopter in your glasses. Or even worse: Cataract? or glaucoma ? Who knows what's your problem... Skillful surgeries and other treatments are now available. Don't worry my Covid infection is more dangerous than your eye problems.
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    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    Wow, that Gina thing is interesting, That was 2 years before I was an active member here so I must have missed it, When you see those signs in the members posts it is a good time to report to the suicide hotline.
    Isn't that Gina your wife? Just because you have so similar mentality and "polite behavior" . She is exactly the female version of you.
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    Why do you call rapidly changing paterns on the wall as "deatail"? Real detail don1t change rapidly. So it is not detail but noise.
    First, the word is "detail". I know English may not be your native language but if you intend to act like you are quoting something when you aren't, you should at least run it past Google translate or other net tools first. Takes 5 seconds.

    Second, have you not heard of DITHER? Dither is a type of noise that is not only not that objectionable, but has the added benefit of revealing detail that is otherwise hidden. It is used extensively to give audio & video material more clarity than would be expected by looking at the quantizing numbers alone. Another good example is in capturing of analog material (which has a form of self-dither). Your clip is just such a source.
    But neat video removes the dither and in doing so, it is also removing the clarity.

    Look up "picket fence" phenomenon.


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    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    Wow, that Gina thing is interesting, That was 2 years before I was an active member here so I must have missed it, When you see those signs in the members posts it is a good time to report to the suicide hotline.
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    Why didn't you used the latest version?
    Why do you call rapidly changing paterns on the wall as "deatail"? Real detail don1t change rapidly. So it is not detail but noise. Neat video restored the original look of the stone coverage of the wall precisely, the original video you can not see that clearly.
    Sample_3.avi is still overdenoised. It's basically the same, but the levels are more like original than Sample_2 but details are still blurred away - fabric, wall etc..

    Not all wall textures are not rapidly changing like "noise". For example, the outline edge of the brick to the man's right is blurred away - that's a real detail that has been destroyed. That brick edge is present and visible in multiple contiguous frames - it's a real detail. Also why is there some detail to the left and right of the blurry patch , even in the Neat Video version ? If that was "noise" should that not all be blurred away too ? The uneven quality of the denoising is unnerving and unnatural. There is a halo of bluriness surrounding the man's head as the head moves. This is because inaccurate and too strong temporal settings. Neat Video confuses the motion of the man's head , so there is a patch of blurriness above the head. It does not segment areas accurately enough (BTW - this is one of the tasks "AI" can be trained for - object segmentation)

    The jacket textures are still blurred away. These are real details that are present across several contiguous frames. Not all of it is "noise". It's the same phenomenon - the details around motion areas (arm moving, head moving in the other shot) are blurred away too excessively, because too strong temporal denosing settings.

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    When you combine overdenoisng with oversharpening, you get that "water painting" look. Lines are thicker and coarser. BTW - QTGMC has that look too, because it denoises and oversharpens too much by default too. It's not a good look

    I'll give you another hint as to how to improve all denoising, not just Neat Video - decimate the duplicates before denoising (this is 25p content with duplicates to make up 50p) . Duplicates interfere with motion compensation and denosing quality. Also denosing 2x the number of frames will be slower. It's a win-win




    The text in your example of calendar video is less clear, and a noise level is higher around it... So just you proved that you werre unable to reproduce the quality of my denoise. Why can't you admit, that free tools can not do good job?
    It's obvious that free tools did a better job in this case (more difficult to use, slower, multiple steps, but still better). The proof is posted above.

    You said the goal was text and handwriting clarity. The open source version is more clear and legible in this case for both. You can't even read some text in the Neat Video version which is legible in the free tools version - there are many noise and sharpening artifacts obscuring the text for the Neat Video version. The Neat Video handwriting is more faint, less clear as well.

    If you said the primary goal was denoising, not text/handwriting clarity, the settings and filters could be adjusted to reach that goal too

    You could improve the neat video version by using those other techniques and filters too - stabilizing too, increasing local contrast selectively, and not sharpening as much using that algorithm (the sharpening artifacts obscure parts of the text, it's counterproductive for "legibility") .

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    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    Isn't that Gina your wife? Just because you have so similar mentality and "polite behavior" . She is exactly the female version of you.
    If I can't tolerate her posts there is no way in hell I can live with her, So that can't be true. That's something suitable for your mentality.

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    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    Isn't that Gina your wife? Just because you have so similar mentality and "polite behavior" . She is exactly the female version of you.
    If I can't tolerate her posts there is no way in hell I can live with her, So that can't be true. That's something suitable for your mentality.
    She wrote here, because you did not deal with her problems.

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    I think in most time the faces and texture of the clothes were more accurate than in the original version. The denoised video hold the necessary dithering, but what was removed is not real detail in most case, but old film noise from the film grain. It did not contain real visual information.
    If we would record the same film with modern 8K cameras in Black and White, and after we downsamled it to 720*576 resulotion, I'm sure that my version would be closer to the reality.
    What you see dithering is not dithering in the reality, but agening and primitive film grain.
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  26. Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    I think in most time the faces and texture of the clothes were more accurate than in the original version.
    No, too much detail loss

    The denoised video hold the necessary dithering, but what was removed is not real detail in most case, but old film noise.
    Lots of noise is removed, but also real details.

    If we would record the same film with modern 8K cameras in Black and White, and after we downsamled it to 720*576 resulotion, I'm sure that my version would be closer to the reality.
    No, too much detail loss.

    A big difference is in the fine high frequency details. When you overdenoise and oversharpen, the line edges are thicker and coarser with edge ringing - it's that water painting look

    A real (decent quality HD is all you need) downscale would demonstrate higher frequency details, thinner lines. It's a night and day difference

    It's difficult to distinuguish high frequency detail, from high frequency noise . This is not just a unique problem to Neat Video, this is in general with any denoising. So "conservative" denoising is usually better approach, because you don't destroy as many details

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    I think it is mostly film grain which was lost.

    Nobody posted his own denoised version. I can guess why.... It can have only one reason.....

  28. Originally Posted by Truthler View Post
    I think it is mostly film grain which was lost.
    Sure, lots of film grain is lost, but so are details


    Neat Video is a very good denoiser, but not when you use it like that.

    You've demonstrated how not to use it. The developers should offer you a refund and take their license back because you're making them look bad

    It's very easy to "overdo" it in Neat Video.

    It's easy to denoise and blur (with any denoiser) - but difficult to denoise and yet keep details. That's what separates good vs. bad denoiser

    Do you remember the comparision video you linked to in the 1st post? The reviewer was singing the praises of Neat Video because of the texture details ("individual loops of fabric", the "fine knitting", etc... ) retained by Neat Video, underneath the noise, in the sweater compared to the other denoisers such as Resolve, Red Giant etc...Well the situation is similar here - you've overdenoised it and the fabric details are gone. Your results look like the oversmoothed results of the "other" denoisers

  29. Here's some mild filtered versiond of the Sample.avi:
    Code:
    # Imports
    import os
    import sys
    import vapoursynth as vs
    # getting Vapoursynth core
    core = vs.core
    # Import scripts folder
    scriptPath = 'I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsscripts'
    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(scriptPath))
    # Loading Plugins
    core.std.LoadPlugin(path="I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsfilters/DenoiseFilter/CTMF/CTMF.dll")
    core.std.LoadPlugin(path="I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsfilters/Support/libtemporalmedian.dll")
    core.std.LoadPlugin(path="I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsfilters/Support/libmvtools.dll")
    core.std.LoadPlugin(path="I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsfilters/SharpenFilter/CAS/CAS.dll")
    core.std.LoadPlugin(path="I:/Hybrid/64bit/vsfilters/SourceFilter/LSmashSource/vslsmashsource.dll")
    # Import scripts
    import nnedi3_resample
    import mvsfunc
    import havsfunc
    import SpotLess
    import lostfunc
    import adjust
    # source: 'C:\Users\Selur\Desktop\Sample.avi'
    # current color space: YUV420P8, bit depth: 8, resolution: 720x576, fps: 50, color matrix: 470bg, yuv luminance scale: limited, scanorder: progressive
    # Loading C:\Users\Selur\Desktop\Sample.avi using LWLibavSource
    clip = core.lsmas.LWLibavSource(source="C:/Users/Selur/Desktop/Sample.avi", format="YUV420P8", cache=0, fpsnum=50, prefer_hw=0)
    # making sure input color matrix is set as 470bg
    clip = core.resize.Bicubic(clip, matrix_in_s="470bg",range_s="limited")
    # making sure frame rate is set to 50
    clip = core.std.AssumeFPS(clip=clip, fpsnum=50, fpsden=1)
    # Setting color range to TV (limited) range.
    clip = core.std.SetFrameProp(clip=clip, prop="_ColorRange", intval=1)
    # cropping the video to 678x568
    clip = core.std.CropRel(clip=clip, left=22, right=20, top=0, bottom=8)
    # Color Adjustment
    clip = adjust.Tweak(clip=clip, hue=0.00, sat=0.00, cont=1.00, coring=True)
    # contrast sharpening using CAS
    clip = core.cas.CAS(clip=clip, sharpness=0.870)
    clip = lostfunc.DeSpot(o=clip)
    clip = lostfunc.DeSpot(o=clip)
    clip = lostfunc.DeSpot(o=clip)
    clip = lostfunc.DeSpot(o=clip)
    clip = SpotLess.SpotLess(clip=clip, chroma=False, radT=3)
    # adjusting frame count and rate with sRestore
    clip = havsfunc.srestore(source=clip, frate=25.000, omode=6, speed=9, thresh=16, mode=2)
    # removing grain using SMDegrain
    clip = havsfunc.SMDegrain(input=clip, tr=6, interlaced=False)
    # adjusting output color from: YUV420P8 to YUV420P10 for x265Model
    clip = core.resize.Bicubic(clip=clip, format=vs.YUV420P10, range_s="limited")
    # set output frame rate to 25.000fps
    clip = core.std.AssumeFPS(clip=clip, fpsnum=25, fpsden=1)
    # Output
    clip.set_output()
    Cu Selur
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    @"Truthler", If you think that film grain doesn't retain detail (and that losing the grain doesn't lose detail as well), you need to get your eyes checked.

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