Help with "halos" on crappy dv source

[Mustachio]

Well I have a really crappy DV camera that I am using to capture video, and Ive been using avisynth to process in the hopes of making it look well, not like crap


either way, I get this weird effect, which to me looks like halo's or edge enhancement, but I dont think thats quite it, its almost as if there is a dark border running around certain images in my frames. I have tried using BlindDeHalo from didee with some mixed results, at times I can reduce the halos a lot with it, but at the cost of severe blurring.


I thought ide post some images up in case any of you wizards out here can suggest something better (they are driving me crazy in the footage)


http://img276.echo.cx/img276/3016/example19fg.jpg
In this specific shot, look specifically at the top of the guardrail, and around the edge of the car


http://img279.echo.cx/img279/6271/example20eo.jpg
This shot look around the edge of the car, and you will be able to clearly see it


Again, these are shot with a very crappy handheld cam, these images are completely unprocessed, with the exception of using mvbob to bob to deinterlace.


One other thing, I was going to do a framerate conversion to 24p to get that film look, and TomsMoComp seems to work slightly better on this footage and I was wondering if a tool like mvfps works just as well for that from a 30p source vs a 60p


Thanks guys

[Mug Funky]

there's almost no vertical detail in those pics at all :(

you might as well deinterlace with "separatefields()" and you wont really lose anything.

as far as getting a film look, all you can really do is play with levels until you find something you like. i don't think there's anything avisynth can do to make it look "not crap" unfortunately - this isn't CSI after all (drink for every time they enhance a tiny photo to get coherent detail... this is completely impossible and never will be possible), and we can't get detail that isn't there.

[Mustachio]

unfortunately, thats what i thought... if i had known before hand that the entry level camcorders were going to have quality that bad than i either wouldnt have bought one at all or considered saving up for a while. Guess thats what i get trying to work on a college students budget.

thanks anyways, guess ill just keep playing around with it until I find something that is suitable (probably half the resolution)