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odyssey
1st January 2011, 23:30
I'm currently trying to restore some clips from an old Disney cartoon. It's ripped from DTV as it has never been released on a medium.

The most annoying problem with this source, is the green shadow visible here:

http://i53.tinypic.com/i2j6oj.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/11rrrrp.jpg

The source is also plagued with dotcrawl/mosquito noise (look at Jiminy Cricket's hat)

I'm currently trying different methods to restore it to see what works best, but it seem to need some heavy filtering to make it nice. Ultimatively I would like to upscale it to 1080p, but it's not pretty atm.

I tried the "Remation"-script which really gets the job done when it comes to re-animating, but with this source it makes it a bit too artificial.

Please, if you have any suggestions on which filters I might benefit from when restoring this are welcome.

I have uploaded a large sample here (http://rapidshare.com/files/440043252/sample.m2v) (34 sec, 37MB) and a smaller one here (http://rapidshare.com/files/440309357/smallsample.m2v) (7 sec, 7MB).

Dogway
2nd January 2011, 08:10
tnlmeans is always first choice, but only if you have a powerful machine and time, as second option Im lately using dfttestmc, its very powerful but a bit slow too. Then use a line enhacer like awarpsharp, just use moderate settings.

odyssey
2nd January 2011, 12:26
Thanks for the tips. They seem pretty powerful, especially tnlmeans.

However, I still need to find out how I can remove the green gunk from the frames. I tried shifting chroma, but that's definately not it (I'm a little lost when it comes to video colorspaces).

Btw, I don't care for speed, so bring on the heavy gear ;)

Dogway
2nd January 2011, 13:49
Ive been taught to contract chroma with mergechroma(awarpsharp2("settings")), have a look at it. I dont know if something else would make it, maybe the pros know.

osgZach
2nd January 2011, 17:58
A Halo filter for the green stuff maybe?