Animation VDub Filters

[Teslacuted]

I'm looking for some suggestions as to what filters I should use to clean up some VHS animated video into near-DVD quality. I have experimented with some but as I have no experience with them they often turn out horrible. The source is moderatley noisy and I want the end result to be in full PAL resolution. All suggestions are appreciated.

Teslacuted

[Hiro2k]

You need to caputure it at Full Pal resolution and save your file as an uncompressed source, cause if you capture it to DivX then run filters on it again, you'll lose much more quality. Also for cleaning up your source, there is Convolution3d which has allot of VHS presets and Anime presets.

[Teslacuted]

Thanks, is Convolution3d available as a Vdub filter as I have no idea how to make an AviSynth Script.

[Hiro2k]

You will have to check that out, I don't know. Also you should look into making an AVS script it is really easy.
Here's a nice example.
If you know any programing then you know that the # are comments and aren't read by the script. You need to set a directory where all your avisynth plugins are, most likely your Gknot folder. Then you load the plugins your going to use. In your case I don't think you need mpeg2dec3.dll since thats for decoding .d2v files. Your source is whatever video source you have, it can be an AVI. Then you just load your filters, the crop is to remove any black areas, and the resize it to get it to the right resolution. Then theres the Convolution3D plugin with the low quality anime setting.

Hope this helps.

# PLUGINS
SetWorkingDir("C:\Program Files\Gordian Knot\")
LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("Convolution3d.dll")

# SOURCE
mpeg2source("D:\DVD\Projects\EVA03_VTS_01_PGC1\EVA03.d2v")

# FILTERS
crop(0,2,708,476)

LanczosResize(608,448)

Convolution3d (preset="vhsBQ")

[Teslacuted]

Thanks, I'll fiddle with it a bit, is there a guide that explains what commands are available and what effect they have on the video? eg. you have "mpeg2source" I'm using Huffyuv, what would the command be? And in what order are the crop numbers?

[jggimi]

An AviSynth manual, and other info, can be found at www.avisynth.org. It will also tell you the order of the crop commands (which I can never remember).

For AVI sources, the command is AviSource("file.avi")