Restoring Kodomo no Omocha

[Selur]

argh,.. too many parameters in AnimeIVTC (the script not the parameters you chose) for me to go through that to figuring out what really happens there.

[rrats]

It's field blended mode. In case it works it might help with my Evangelion master. Not exactly sure as it's blending is way more weird

[RGMOfficial]

Ok, guys.

So, how you guys can resolve this half-blended telecine, with the footage i send on this thread?

[rrats]

Most efficient way would be inserting the QTGMC double frame rate deinterlaced video into a video editor such as Premiere Pro and look for blended frames, then replace them with non blended duplicates. Since it's animation it should be possible for the most part. Awfully hard but it's the only way I know of that works most of the times

[rrats]

Some de-blending filters can make a little difference tho

[poisondeathray]

AnimeIVTC or srestore leave quite a few problems with blends and bad scene changes.

You can start with that, and clean the remaining blends and fix the rest by compositing/paint/clone parts of frames with photoshop/AE or similar . This type of animation often has clean BG's a few frames away, so you can clone clean areas into a bad frame. There is no filter or script that can do this alone, you definitely need to use other manual tools if you want to do a good job.

Replacing with duplicates is not necessarily ideal, because there can be unique frames with camera zoom, but say, a blended mouth. If you replace with duplicate, you lose the smoothness of the camera zoom or motion and it becomes jerky

It depends on how much work you want to put into it, and how good of a job is "good enough" for you. You can divide up the work between other fans, maybe each person spend an hour a day or something

[RGMOfficial]

AnimeIVTC or srestore leave quite a few problems with blends and bad scene changes.

You can start with that, and clean the remaining blends and fix the rest by compositing/paint/clone parts of frames with photoshop/AE or similar . This type of animation often has clean BG's a few frames away, so you can clone clean areas into a bad frame. There is no filter or script that can do this alone, you definitely need to use other manual tools if you want to do a good job.

Replacing with duplicates is not necessarily ideal, because there can be unique frames with camera zoom, but say, a blended mouth. If you replace with duplicate, you lose the smoothness of the camera zoom or motion and it becomes jerky

It depends on how much work you want to put into it, and how good of a job is "good enough" for you. You can divide up the work between other fans, maybe each person spend an hour a day or something

While timetaking and manual, i think, for a complete blend-removal goal, this is the best solution.

Just need some help to do this.

[rrats]

Very timetaking, just found out the anime has 102 episodes and not 24 as I initially thought

[rrats]

Also @RGMOfficial have you checked out the SDBD release?

[RGMOfficial]

No, yet. I don't have them, sadly. I'm from an country where the SDBD is not officially released.
I did heard Discotek's English SDBD is a better source (ignoring the cropping), since they used the original analog masters without Frontier Works's strange seizure edits.

Maybe someone have an direct rip, so i can analyse more carefully.

[hayamaakito]

No, yet. I don't have them, sadly. I'm from an country where the SDBD is not officially released.
I did heard Discotek's English SDBD is a better source (ignoring the cropping), since they used the original analog masters without Frontier Works's strange seizure edits.

Maybe someone have an direct rip, so i can analyse more carefully.

You can torrent Discotek's Bluray release from Nyaa.
I torrented it, it's 480i/29.97fps. It looks the same as basically the R2J DVD's, which is to say it looks like shit because at the end of the day it's the same transfer. But I mainly torrented it for the decent subtitles for Season 2. And there is some interview with Akitaro Daichi as an extra, and most of the rest of the extras are just crappy English Dub snippets of Sana singing etc.

As far as image quality is concerned, MottoJ's encode from the R2J DVD's from 2019 is still the best version imo.
He corrected the rainbow artifacts, deinterlaced it to progressive 23.976fps and upscaled it a touch.

It frustrates me that Japanese animation studios just let these old anime to rot and never restore them. Or there is cases like with DB/DBZ/DBGT where Toei actually restored them(back when they did Kai) but they refuse to release them on Blu-ray.

It's crazy that on your first post you assumed that the Kodocha anime masters were lost. There's 0 chance of that.
Kodocha is not even 30 years old yet. The film master negative are safe somewhere, probably in NAS' or Studio Gallop archive.
But we will probably never see a HD/4K restoration.

Now the audio master tapes, they maybe lost them because they didn't consider them important since the audio was also stored optically in the film.
But then again, some TV station likely has archived them. Like when it was revealed that Fuji TV had perfect DBZ audio all along months ago when Akira Toriyama died and they aired some footage from Namek arc with pristine quality audio.
So I wouldn't be suprised if TV Tokyo had pristine audio quality preserved from Kodocha broadcasts or something like that.