SVPflow motion interpolation (Avisynth + Vapoursynth, Linux, Mac?)

[johnmeyer]

Originally Posted by flossy_cake

It's extremely impressive when it's working well, on controlled pans and such. "So close yet so far" is how I would describe it.

Yup. You perfectly summed up motion estimation. My version of your summation comes from the last two lines of the poem about the girl with the curl on her forehead: "When she was good she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid."

If you have lots of time, you can make two videos, one using motion estimation and the other using frame blending. You then look for the awful motion estimation artifacts and, for that one frame, substitute frame blending. It works.

One person in this forum made a valiant attempt to automate that substitution idea, and even used masks to only replace the frame-blended result for the part of the frame which contains the artifact. He put a huge effort into the project, but unfortunately, it never quite succeeded.