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nonoitall
29th April 2007, 00:29
I've got an anime I'm trying to make as compressible as possible. For the most part, denoisers (the spatial and temporal ones built into AviSynth work wonders) are doing a good job, making colors solid and getting rid of grain, but there are a few frames here and there that still have pretty obvious defects. For example, large bright spots on some frames and black "garbage" at the bottom of others.

I was hoping a temporal denoiser might get rid of them, since they only tend to last for one frame, but maybe I'm just not tweaking things right. Know of any filters/configurations that might help? Even if the frames can't be repaired, is there a filter that could detect such frames and replace them with a nearby frame that looks similar, or just replace it with the previous frame?

I attached a couple frames that demonstrate the problem I'm having. (You'll never guess what anime I'm encoding. ;)) In the first, that bright spot on Raditz's neck and ear is not supposed to be there, and in the next frame you can clearly see the black crud (don't know what the proper term is for it) on the bottom of the frame that occasionally shows itself immediately before a scene change.

foxyshadis
30th April 2007, 00:45
You could try DeSpot. It's tricky, because you have to set the parameters high enough to catch errors without causing worse artifacts, but in some cases it can lesson artifacts. It'd probably be a bit easier to control if it came with an overrides file option.

DarkT
30th April 2007, 02:37
about the black "crud" - yeah, those usually happen in old animes, one before scene change (at the top usually I think) and then just after scene change one at the bottom.

I use FreezeFrames to kill those... Lots and lots of FreezeFrames :).

Now that I think about it... I could have just cropped the whole damn thing and saved myself a few hours... But then I'd feel dirty :).

Mug Funky
30th April 2007, 05:01
try improvesceneswitch for the bad splices. i think it's in the removedirt package. forum search should reveal it :)

or just leave them it... it's only dragonball.

nonoitall
3rd May 2007, 11:10
Thanks for the suggestions. With some tweaking, ImproveSceneSwitch was able to remove some of the bad splices. (Still haven't had any luck with the white spots.) :(