Deinterlacing, cleaning and uspscaling "Skyland": PAL DVD (25i, 720x576i, anamorphic)

[nacho]

Hello I'm a newbie here and I've recently bought a DVD of an animated show I watched as a kid. I've been reading around these forums and learning about avisynth/vapoursynth and different filters in the hopes to do an attempted HD 1080p restore/upscale of the show for viewing on a PC. I have settled on using vapoursynth over avisynth because of its speed and vseditor.

I'll upload a clip so you can have a look at the source as I have some questions. (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g1eKGFHWsokzTmcdkcNGbG8UUjyGWPM5?usp=sharing)

Step 1: Deinterlacing
As far as I can tell the source is pure 25i (almost every frame with motion seems interlaced/combed) so I think I need to deinterlace + srestore(). If I am wrong and I should be IVTC please let me know. So I am currently just doing:
video = haf.QTGMC(video, Preset='Very Slow',TFF=True)
video = haf.srestore(video)

Is there anything I could tweak here to get better results?

There is also artifacts similar to here:https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=164009
Except in my case the "ghosting" is of the previous frame:
https://i.imgur.com/M4s75GG.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hQ3gc36.jpg

Could someone explain what this is? And if there's any way to remove or minimise this effect?

Step 2: Denoising, sharpening, upscaling
I have been reading about upscaling filters and it seems the best way currently is with nnedi3. Waifu2x is similar but much slower. I've also read you can use eedi3 and a combination of eedi3 with nnedi 3. Although I'm not too sure on how to use either eedi3 or eedi3+nnedi3 together. All I have for upscaling atm is:
video = core.nnedi3cl.NNEDI3CL(video, field=1, dh=True, dw=True, nsize=0, nns=3)

Could someone explain how I could use eedi3+nnedi3 together or eedi3 on its own to do a 2x upscale?

Finally I am unsure about the order of sharpening, denoising and upscaling. What would give the best results do you think? And which denoisers/sharpeners. I have read about SMDegrain, KNLMeansCL, LSFMod and awarpsharp2. Should I pick 1 sharpener and 1 denoiser from that list?

That's all for now. I know there's been lots of "PLS make my ANIME LOOK HD and AMAZING" on this forum and VH and I hope this post is a bit better than those. I am really excited by everything that is possible with filters and vapoursynth/avisynth and it all seems like magic to me :D. Also the 5 day wait to post is very good - it made me read up and learn lots and try lots for myself before posting and asking so good job. I love this forum already.

Thanks, nacho.

[Asmodian]

Ouch, can you find a 23.976 version (e.g. Region 1)? Your's has been damaged by a terrible conversion to 25 fps. :(

Those artifacts are in the source. I don't think they have a name beyond field blending artifacts. Fixing them is beyond me but not everyone here. Any fully automated technique will not be perfect, it will miss some of these blends and/or be unable to find/create good frames for every frame.

I used this script:
LoadPlugin("C:\Tools\dgdecnv2053\DGDecodeNV.dll")
DGSource("D:\Encode\VTS_05_1_clip.demuxed.dgi")
SeparateFields()

It is not just blending with the previous frame, there are long sequences of various blending patterns. Here are some raw fields starting at field 377 of the above script:
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0377_zps4hutxfik.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0378_zpstgeoltxq.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0379_zpseogvpr7m.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0380_zpswxn87xtp.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0381_zpstxvklp84.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0382_zpsb5mgvbdq.png
https://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/asmodian3/VTS_05_01_clip0383_zpsd10b99br.png

I also do not think this source would benefit from upscaling and sharpening. It would greatly benefit from an advanced deinterlace+deblend though. I would simply convert it to x264 at a pretty high bitrate and then use madVR to do all upscaling during playback. This actually offers higher quality because you can use a lot more bits/pixels during the encode and you only need to do one upscaling step.

If you are not playing back on a HTPC then upscaling makes more sense but I would still work on fixing the field blending before worrying about upscaling.

[nacho]

That's disappointing to hear I was aware the was blending issues with the source but didn't realise it was so bad. Hopefully I can find some way to do a better job... Maybe I should post a thread specifically about deblending in the avisynth or vapoursynth forum?

[Asmodian]

There are a lot of topics on this subject there already so it would be at home. Many experts on the topic to help too. :)

Sorry, I am not one of them.