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juhu
5th July 2007, 14:31
Hi
It's been 2 days I'm struggling with this source :

http://files-upload.com/349977/cutenfant_1.vob.html

it comes from a french...ntsc dvd (standard is supposed to be Pal here), but it was probably transcoded as this editor sometimes does...

Usually, a simple tdeint(mode=1).repal() does the job but considering there were dupes frames added at some point (as it happens on all decently authored silent flicks on dvd unless you like sped-up editions...), neither repal or mrestore are able to do a proper job... There are good chances original film speed is 18 fps btw in case it can help...

Moreover, field-matching / deinterlacing routines always create bad color artifacts on these tainted images on all fast movements or transition frames...

I tested usual bobbers (tdeint(mode=1) / Dgbob...)
also played with interlacing paramaters (tdeint+TTM / tdeint + EEDI, mvbob()...), toyed with TFM (different cthresh values...)

but in all cases, I always end up with some blended frames and bad color artifacts. I also converted to yuy2, it reduces a bit these colors artifacts but they are still way too present...

is there a way to restore frames with "perfect" dupes, without blending/artifacts (unless I'm wrong and there's no transcoding but I doubt it), so I can just (t)decimate the result afterwards ??

Thanks in advance

juhu
5th July 2007, 17:52
ah nevermind, I just saw mrestore 2.0 came out 1 month ago
Results were already better than "old" mrestore, but when I saw (& used) this new "ani" mode apparently designed to work with "low" anime framerates (doc says 8-12 fps, but my case is 18 or 20 fps at worst, and it still seems to work), well all my problems just vanished !
decimation should be easy now...

An enormous thanks to MOMONSTER, this script is absolutely fantabulous !