Help with Anime Filter

[Gamestar]

Hey guys. I was woundering if you guys could recommend me some good filters for an anime bakup im currently doing.

Im currently re-encoding my BD anime into 720p to keep them on my HD.

The thing is the anime looks great but it doesn't look very sharp. I was wondering which filters you guys would recomment for sharpening the vdieo and making the colors more vibrant. I looked and there's just too many to chose from and there's no previews of the filter.

I was also wondering which resize method is better. Im currently using spline36. I was wondering if Lanczos would be better.

Hope to hear your inputs.

[mastrboy]

i'm quite inexperienced but i usually use the following:

LSFmod for sharpening: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=142706
You could also try msharpen: http://neuron2.net/msharpen/msharpen.html

more vibrant colors, i'm guessing tweaking the saturation might help, try tweak(sat=1.1) (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Tweak)

You can see some previews of filters here: http://www.aquilinestudios.org/avsfilters/sharpeners.html

[Nightshiver]

If you want better help, post a sample. Unprocessed sample.

[Gamestar]

ok. i'll upload a sample. its in bluray so the filesize will be around 140MB.

i tried out the LFSmod but im not seeing any result on the output video.

i dont know that the problem is. i think anytime i put in a value for any script. it wont work.

for example. i tried out LimitedSharpenFaster(strength=200)

it doesn't do anything. i then tried out LimitedSharpenFaster()

that actually sharpen the video. LSFmod(defaults="slow") doesnt do anything when i add it. it only makes the video encoding time take longer.

[Nightshiver]

@mswaino2
Don't thread hijack. Your sample has dot crawl and is HT (hard telecined) Animeivtc(mode=1, aa=0) for starters. Figure out the rest so that you can learn.

[Gamestar]

do u mind if i upload the sample to sendspace nightsilver. any any input on what i said in the post above.

[Nightshiver]

It'd be easier if you could upload to Megaupload, but sendspace is acceptable.

[Gamestar]

Here's the sample. its in 1080p. i want to resize it to 720p and filter it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/inst5r

[Nightshiver]

Honestly, I don't know what you're expecting. Your source is very clean and pristine. Just do a simple resize and maybe just a little bit of sharpening, but not much.

SharpAAMCMod() #little bit of line thinning helps
LimitedSharpenFaster(ss_x=1.7, ss_y=1.7, smode=3, strength=165, overshoot=1, undershoot=1) #don't need that much sharpening
Tweak(sat=1.2) #you really don't need that much color, but if you want it, use it.
Spline36resize(1280,720)

On the contrary, it is sharp. You can only get so "sharp" a picture in anime to the eye.

[Gamestar]

ok. thanks a lot for your input. it is greately appreciated. i'll run an encode with those settings right now.

[Gamestar]

i seem to get this error when i try out the script.

i get one error first and then i click the ok and another one comes up.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ey8ku1.png

[thetoof]

This is a Masktools v1 function.

[Gamestar]

ooh. i downloaded masktools but i got version 2. ill download one and see if that fixes it. it doesnt matter which version rite. as long as it's one. i see lots of version for masktools.

EDIT

it still wont work. i got the following masktools
http://manao4.free.fr/MaskTools-v1.5.8.zip

http://manao4.free.fr/masktools-v2.0a36.zip

[Nightshiver]

Wrong one's.

MaskTools v1.5.1 http://www.mediafire.com/?kxlmmmuumdx
mt_masktools-25 v2.0.35 http://www.mediafire.com/?2zyznzk34ng

[Gamestar]

thanks. got it working now.