What smoothers for DV?

[vlada]

Hi,
I'm converting a DV source to x264 and it is sometimes very noisy (especially indoor scenes). So I'd like to use some smoothers to remove the noise. Which filters would you suggest?
I heard PeachSmoother is good, but there is no YV12 version. Also it seems to me that almost all smooth filters are dead and it's quite hard to get them.
I believe that I should use both temporal and spatial smoothers. Which one would you suggest to put first? I would put the temporal one on the first place, but I'm not sure.
Can you give me some advices please?

Thank you,
Vlada

[Raziel6969]

Hello,

I don't have DV camcorder, but i think you can try:

The old fast combo:
Undot()
Deen()
You can try, new filters like Fizick's ones:
fft3dfilter
degrainmedian
stmedianfilter
at the forum you can find many examples!

removedirt
removegrain

Bye

[Video Dude]

You have to be careful because DV is interlaced.

Read this post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=529776&postcount=2

stickboy gives a good explanation on how to use the three main kinds of smoothers: temporal, spatial, and temporal-spatial.



I personally like FluxSmooth version 1.1a to filter DV.

[vlada]

Hello,
Thank you for the replies.
I'm doing a deinterlace into 50 fps (using DgBob). So I don't have to deal with interlacing. But may be it wouldn't be a bad idea to separate fields, use a spatial smoother and then deinterlace.
I tried fft3dfilter, but it is quite slow. I'll give a try do Deen, eDeen and FluxSmooth. It seems to me there are quite a few spatial smoother, but almost no temporal smoothers working with YV12.
Still my question wheter to put first temporal or spatial smoother remains unanswered. What are your experiences?

Vlada

[Raziel6969]

Hello,

deinterlace 1st, then smooth!

i know 'deen', have modes: 1. spatial, 2. temporal 3. 1+2
There are many others, you can read a little at www.avisynth.org

most filters work in YV12 & YUY2. If not YV12 convert the colorspace to YUY2.
I search & find: all filters that i tell you are YV12 & YUY2 compatible! read the info in filters!

Bye