AviSynth Filter Suggestions

[hech54]

That looks VERY nice....even in VLC!!!!
And yes I'm still confused on the YUV/RGB thing.....sorry about that. The one thing I know is that i was never able to actually CAPTURE in YUV. The only time I was ever able to see the term "YUV" was when I placed my capture in VDub and change the Color Depth output from RGB to YUV....hence the strange MediaInfo text we discussed here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/355860-AviSynth-Filter-Suggestions?p=2240270&viewfu...=1#post2240270

I'm sure this original video shoot was a rush job afterthought made while they were on tour after the song became popular while they were on tour and had no time or money to do it any other way......all with 1980 technology.


THANK YOU for all of your effort. I just hope it is not all in vain since I'm a complete AviSynth idiot.
More Later.

[hech54]

Where can I get these:

vidpath="E:\forum\hech54\" AviSource(vidpath+"second sample.avi") ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true) Crop(38,0,-20,-16) SmoothLevels(3,0.8,255,14,255,chroma=200,limiter=2,tvrange=tru e,smooth=100,dither=100,lmode=2,darkSTR=10) ColoryUV(cont_y=10,gain_y=-20,off_y=1) ColorYUV(cont_v=-100,off_v=-3) ColorYUV(cont_u=-100,off_u=-3) AddBorders(30,8,28,8) SmoothTweak(Saturation=1.4) MCTemporalDenoise(settings="low",sigma=4,AA=true,edgeclean=true,enh ance=true,interlaced=true) # -- better to deinterlace for next line, but it's 230 A.M. --- mergechroma(awarpsharp2(depth=30, type=1, blur=1, chroma=4)) return last

Are they in SmoothAdjust?

EDIT.
Never mind....I got it.

[sanlyn]

Oops, sorry, it was getting late around here. MCTempooralDenoise (aka MCTD) is a heavy hitter that I don't like to spring on newcomers to Avisynth. But at the moment it was the handiest tool for the job. Comes with many parts and other plugins. The parts required should all be inside the attached .ZIP, below. A hassle at first, but the same helper utilities are used in other Avisynth big guys. The ZIP has three folders inside, one for some documentation (always fun stuff), the pluigins required, and good ol' FFTW3.DLL -- the latter not a plugin, but a Windows system library dll that goes into System32.

Could have thrown more filters at it, but MCTD, SmoothAdjust, and aWarpSharp2 are more than enough to start with. If you get their downloads, don' unzip all their parts into your plugins folder. Make another folder somewhere with subfolders for each plugin download. As you collect them they tend to pile up different versions. If they all get unzipped into "plugins" you'll have a mess.

[hech54]

If I remove MCTempooralDenoise from the script, it loads. If I leave it I get this:

This was before and after I added the plugins you provided.

[sanlyn]

DeBlock_QED_MT2.avsi isnt in the plugins package. It should be the older DeBlock_QED.avsi -- you can't load both in the plugins folder at the same time. Make a copy of the older one and call it "DeBlock_QED.avs" (instead of "avsi") and import it explicitly in the script:
Import("path to plugin folder\DeBlock_QED.avs")
You can't have two versions of the same plugin in your folder, even if they have different names. The exception would be the older mv_tools and the new one. They have similar dll names, but their internal functions aren't named the same way. I often have to move some of those dll's around, depending on what plugins I'm trying to use. It's a cross to bear for all Avisynth users. Well, after all, it's free.

In fact I think that Deblock version is actually a "text" file that was formatted in WordPad. I believe that's the one you have to open in Windows Wordpad if you want to read it. I've encountered a couple of such avs scripts.

[vhelp]

hech54, i've seen some of your previous posted vhs captures, and i gotta say, something aint right with this one. i suspect that you have a second generation copy..i've seen it in other cases here over the years--the color levels give it away. at least your capture card is giving you good results either way. well, maybe sanlyn can improve it some.

[hech54]

Sanlyn - Thank You....I'm working on it. Family time with my son.
Vhelp - You got that right. Warner Bros. probably made a copy of an NTSC tape and stuck it on their European PAL promo tape....and converted it badly. All of the genuine PAL material (European artists) looks fantastic.

[hech54]

Does this look right?

vidpath="G:\EMI Extra Price VHS\RAW capture\"
AviSource(vidpath+"ds000.avi")

ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
Crop(38,0,-20,-16)
SmoothLevels(3,0.8,255,14,255,chroma=200,limiter=2 ,tvrange=true,smooth=100,dither=100,lmode=2,darkST R=10)
ColoryUV(cont_y=10,gain_y=-20,off_y=1)
ColorYUV(cont_v=-100,off_v=-3)
ColorYUV(cont_u=-100,off_u=-3)
AddBorders(30,8,28,8)
SmoothTweak(Saturation=1.4)

MCTemporalDenoise(settings="low",sigma=4,AA=true,e dgeclean=true,enhance=true,interlaced=true)
# -- better to deinterlace for next line, but it's 230 A.M. ---
mergechroma(awarpsharp2(depth=30, type=1, blur=1, chroma=4))
return last

It works but it's painfully slow(in VDub)....and I don't think it looks as good as Sanlyn's sample he created.
It's late here so it may be at least 12 hours before I reply.
THANK YOU again all of the help.

[sanlyn]

(Sorry, I'm traveling now. With relatives. I hate it. Using a Netbook. Hate that, too.)

Yes...MCTempoalDenoise is really slow. It's 10 filters in one, maybe more than 10. The more problems it sees in the source, the more work it does, the longer it takes. As configured here, it separates interlaced fields and reinterlaces. Considering the faulty structure of the source (it's incorrectly deinterlaced anyway) you can remove "interlaced = false" and remove "AA=true", it will run a bit faster. Might not be quite as clean, but I tried it as progressive with some other plugins and it took even longer. In fact, try it by commenting-out the entire MCTD line and see how it goes. You might prefer a little more noise.

Note that the script runs the video as YV12, not as RGB. So it exits the script as YV12. If you use "full processing mode" in VirtualDub, it slows some more by being reconverted to RGB -- which you don't want. In Virtuadub's "Video" menu, set "color depth" to "YV12", set "Compressor to Lagarith and tell Lagarith you want YV12 as well, then use "fast recompress". You don't want to convert to RGB again; you want to send it to an encoder as YV12, which is the way it will be encoded anyway. The encoder I used was TMPGenc Mastering Works 5, but there are others as good or better.