SmartSSIQ question

[Chainmax]

The avs indicates that this script needs VD_SmartSmoothIQ(). Where do I find it and how do I load it?

[Wilbert]

http://www.avisynth.org/VirtualDub_I and http://www.avisynth.org/VirtualDub_II. You also need to get SmoothHiQ.vdf somewhere.

[foxyshadis]

If you want to replicate it without conversions to RGB (but still requiring YUY2), you can replace the call with SmoothHiQ (avisynth port) in the script, but if you do you have to use separatefields/weave if you want interlaced since it doesn't support it. Other than that one vdub filter there's really no good reason to convert everything to rgb.

[Chainmax]

Wilbert: thanks :). I found smoothhiq here (http://www.doki.ca/filters/).

foxyshadis: I'm trying to use LB's SmartSSIQ script which needs the VDub version.

mmm...the vdub_filters.avsi file says that the vdf should be named smooth.vdf and that SmoothHiQ.vdf corresponds to neuron's Smart Smoother HiQ. That can't be right, neuron's filter is a smoother, isn't it? I'll just rename the VDF I found.

[Chainmax]

I get a "there's no function called UnSharpMask" error. This is my script:

LoadPlugin("X:\wherever\DeDot.dll")
LoadPlugin("X:\wherever\Bifrost.dll")
LoadPlugin("X:\wherever\TDeint.dll")
Import("X:\wherever\VDub_Filters.avs")
Import("X:\wherever\SmartSSIQ.avs")
DirectShowSource("X:\wherever\myDVAvi.avi",fps=25,audio=false)
ConditionalFilter(last, last, last.DeDot(20,20,15,5), "YDifferenceFromPrevious()", ">", "5", false)
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
Bifrost(interlaced=true)
TDeint(type=1)
SmartSSIQ()

I tried loading MaskTools (v1.5.8) but the same error appeared. What else do I need to load?

[Leak]

I get a "there's no function called UnSharpMask" error.
IIRC that's a part of warpsharp.dll...

Also, Unsharp Masking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_mask) isn't really masking, but a sharpening technique, so you're quite unlikely to find it in MaskTools... :)

np: Fluke - Life Support (Six Wheels On My Wagon)

[Chainmax]

Like I said, I loaded MaskTools v1.5.8 to no avail. Let's see if loading warpsharp does the trick...

...it did, then it asked me for edgemask so I also loaded maskTools and now it works. Thanks for the heads-up :).


[edit]Wow, not even this could kill those rainbows. sh0dan's rainbow killer, CNR2 and FFT3DFilter(sigma=6) on the chroma planes couldn't either :eek:.

[foxyshadis]

You must have one horrific clip. Something like this cockatoo (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1104796464816867460), maybe?

I noticed the name being off when I looked up smartssiq the other day, I thought it was a bug in avisynth.org but I didn't want to change it without confirmation.

[Chainmax]

Well, it's quite worse. It's a short film made by a friend of mine and it's a third generation VHS copy as it was analogically edited as many times before capturing it to DV. In any case, scharfis_brain took a look at it and told me that spatial chroma smoothing won't help because the chroma is already blurred from the successive copying and DV's crappy YV12 and suggested me to use temporalsoften instead.

[Wilbert]

@Chainmax,
mmm...the vdub_filters.avsi file says that the vdf should be named smooth.vdf and that SmoothHiQ.vdf corresponds to neuron's Smart Smoother HiQ. That can't be right, neuron's filter is a smoother, isn't it? I'll just rename the VDF I found.
So, if i understand you correctly, i need to rename smooth.vdf to smoothIQ.vdf, right?

[Chainmax]

Yeah, I couldn't have phrased myself worse, could I? ;)
The vdf from the package I downloaded is named SmoothIQ.vdf and it has to be renamed to smooth.vdf.

[Wilbert]

Ok, another try:

smoothhiq.vdf is used in VD_SmartSmoothHiQ. So that's good.
smooth.vdf is used in VD_SmartSmoothIQ. This should be smoothIQ.vdf here.

Right?

[Chainmax]

Exactly.