Want suggestions for improving upsized animation clips

[cobo]

I want to scale up some animation avi's to DVD to play on a standalone player. I'd apprectiate any suggestions or links for doing improving the quality of the video.

Here's a 1.5MB clip:
http://www.filedropr.com/download/ODY2ODI=

Here's the script I have so far:
ConvertToYUY2

EEDI2().TurnRight().EEDI2().TurnLeft()

ConvertFPS(29.970)

[Pookie]

That source is bad. Buy the DVDs and be done with it.

[R3Z]

I cant believe thats the only copy of a simpsons epidsode you can find ? Isnt it on television everyday around the world ?

[cobo]

If they were out on DVD I would buy it, but they're not. It's a collection of the 48 sets of the first Simpson's shorts that were used in the first three seasons of the Tracy Ullman show.

I know I came across a thread that was about scaling up a small format clip with a script from scharfis_brain that gave suprisingly good results, but I haven't been able to find it again. I've also think I've seen a couple of threads about smooting out the colors and lines in animations but haven't found them again either. I was just hoping someone would know some tricks offthe top of their heads, or could link me to those threads I've seen before.

[Mr_Odwin]

Is this the thread you were thinking of?
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=109422

[cobo]

Yes, that's the one. Thank you very much.

[Chainmax]

Aah, that function :). I kept hoping it would be cleaned up and sped up one day, too bad it wasn't :(.
By the way, cobo, I'd suggest you to use DGPulldown instead of ConvertFPS for the FILM-->NTSC framerate change, it should look much better.

[cobo]

Well, that scharfis_brain script doesn't work for these. It produces some trippy looking effects where there's rapid motion.

I found a number of threads dealing with animation and upsizing. I haven't tried out all the ideas, but this is the best I've come up with for these clips. There doesn't seem to be anything that can remedy the color bleed - outside of maybe recolorizing them - which I don't want to spend the time trying to figure out.

AVIsource("F:\Asimpsons\Simpsons Tracy Ullman Shorts 10-Maggie's Brain.avi")
ResampleAudio( 48000)

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\MaskTools.dll") #v.151
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\RemoveDirt.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\SangNom.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\UnFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\FrameDbl.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\hqdn3d.dll")
import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\AAA.avs")
import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.56a\plugins\FastLineDarken 1.3.avs")

ConvertToYV12()

FastLineDarken(strength=72, thinning=0)

RemoveDirt(default= "anime") #RemoveDirt.ini

AAA(704,480,50,50,1,2,chroma=false)

function AAAFaster(clip clp, bool "Scale2X")
{
Scale2X = default( Scale2X, false )
clp.Lanczos4Resize(clp.Width * 2, clp.Height * 2)
TurnLeft().SangNom().TurnRight().SangNom()
return Scale2X ? last : ReduceBy2()
}

hqdn3d(18,18,18,18)

FrameDbl(255,3)

ConvertToYUY2
ColorYUV(opt="coring")

ConvertToYV12