on the right track? script help

[colt4523]

I would like to see if I am on the right track with my script. I am converting my vhs animation episodes that I recorded from television into dvds. I am using my s-video vcr to get them onto my computer. The cartoons are NTSC and are pretty dirty do to my less then steller cable reception. Editing is done with virtualdubmod with the avisynth editor and will be using tmpgenc to encode. I plan on putting 6 23-24min episodes on one dvd. Ok, that is the background of my project and here is my script:

LoadPlugin ("LoadPluginEx.dll")
LoadPlugin("DustV5.dll")
LoadPlugin("peachsmoother.dll")
LoadPlugin("MSharpen.dll")
LoadPlugin("FluxSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("GuavaComb.dll")
AviSource("E:\movie\origins.avi")
Trim(352,26493) ++ Trim(27701,39817)
Pixiedust(8)
Fluxsmooth(spatial_threshold=4)
PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 20, Stability = 25, Spatial = 100)
GuavaComb(mode="NTSC",activation=30,recall=85,MaxVariation=40)
Tweak(bright=4)
Crop(0,5,640,475)
Cropbottom(8)
Bicubicresize(352,480)
MSharpen(5,100,true,false,false)
FadeIO2(15)

-everything looks ok(I think) but would like to know if my settings are crazy, wrong order, overkill or should I be using some different filters or combos (any favorites)? Any opinions or comments would be great.

[oo_void]

First, run GuaveComb as your first filter, or even better DeDot(). Once you start toying with the signal, the comb filters don't have much to key off of.

Additionally, you're doing quite a bit of filtering there, Dust, Flux, and Peach. Try simplifying with something like just a touch of VagueDenoiser (or stick with Flux), then Dust, the Faery variety. Also, your Dust setting seems really high.

Since it seems that you've got all the pre-reqs there, a Dust, Resize, then Sharpen, I'd take a look at using Didee's IIP script and see if you get better results. See this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70916&highlight=iip). Be warned though, it's really slow ;).

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oo_void

[colt4523]

thanks for the help, I will take a look at that thread and hopefully I can start to get the hang of all these filters.:confused:

[Wilbert]

1) Like oo_void said Guava should be done before any smoothing.

2) Pixiedust(8) is too strong, known to cause artefacts. Try Pixiedust(5).

3) I assume your original clip is 640x480. Why are you cropping twice? Why are you cropping at all?

4) v2.5 plugins should be loaded before loadpluginex.dll, and v2.0 plugins after that.

5) I would start with something like

LoadPlugin("MSharpen.dll")
LoadPlugin("GuavaComb.dll")
LoadPlugin("LoadPluginEx.dll")
LoadPlugin("DustV5.dll")
AviSource("E:\movie\origins.avi")
Trim(352,26493) ++ Trim(27701,39817)
GuavaComb(mode="NTSC",activation=30,recall=85,MaxVariation=40)
Pixiedust(5)
#PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 20, Stability = 25, Spatial = 100)
Bicubicresize(352,480)
Tweak(bright=4)
MSharpen(5,100,true,false,false)
FadeIO2(15)

6) Switch between pixiedust and peach to see what you like most.

[colt4523]

thanks for the input, I am cropping twice because my video is coming from my vhs tapes that happen to have some junk/lines at the top and the bottom. So I decided to crop them out. Should I not do that? I will give your suggestions a try..thanks

[Wilbert]

I will mess up your aspect ratio. Just use letterbox to replace it with black pixels:

http://www.avisynth.org/Letterbox

[colt4523]

ok, will do..thanks