how to use avisynth for beginners

[feisty2]

feel like actually the problem is he doesn't know how to use a computer

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by manono

They're having the same problem over there.

Ahhhhh.... I don't visit the "restoration" forum at VideoHelp as it's generally not my thing..... although maybe I should start having a look. I might learn some stuff. At least they got to view all the attached screenshots over there without it bringing the entire forum to a halt. We weren't allowed to see the scripts in the plugins folder didn't have an avsi extension or that flashmaster was running multiple version of the same plugin.

I had a look at the sample uploaded to the other forum and it'd be fairly easy to use the default removedirt, removespots (or whatever script) settings and assume they're not "working", as all the spots and blemishes don't magically disappear. In fact, not many of them do. I think those scripts are pretty good at cleaning spots and blemishes from single frames, but the clip in question has blemishes which span two or three frames. And there's lots of background movement which I think also means the MC scripts won't be as effective.

Anyway.... I pinched the idea someone posted over at VideoHelp and tried it on the sample clip. It made an obvious difference.

av=last
av1=av.SelectEvery(3,0).RemoveSpots()
av2=av.SelectEvery(3,1).RemoveSpots()
av3=av.SelectEvery(3,2).RemoveSpots()
Interleave(av1,av2,av3)
RemoveSpots()

[flashmaster]

yes i agree first i am happy to finally get it working and yes i saw a difference i played it back to back and you can see the changes...i have saved all the plugins that are working with this script and saved it into a zip folder...i even tried it with another clip and just renamed it and it still worked. so yes its great..this clip you saw is not has good quality has the 8mm film and same with my family film...these are newly found and good to great quality so when i go home to england i will redo the films in hd and do it again with this script

[LemMotlow]

Glad it's helping to clean things up and you have a working script. But it's not a good idea to work with 8mm film as HD. 8mm simply doesn't have the resolution for HD work. That especially applies to the sample clip we saw at the other forum. It's like trying to blow up a postage-stamp frame to the size of a wall mural. It just doesn't work.

However, the BluRay spec does have provision for high-bitrate standard definition video. You might also consider that your source is progressive film at 29.97fps, while DVD and SD BluRay for disc output are usually interlaced or telecined. You might have a few things to learn about handling that problem.

[flashmaster]

i understand the clip i have at the moment is not great, its been compressed and played about with a few times...i have the original 8mm and its lovely and sharp and so is my family one which is so much clearer and sharper then what i friend did about 20 years ago. so i will have better material to work with..i will record it in hd with my phone maybe not full hd i do not know but i will see what it like in size first has the rendering time. i will make sure this time i can get the focus sorted which was the problem last time but now i have manual focus and control over most of the flicker before i put it on the pc it was mostly the clean up bit i wanted to do..i have seen some of the examples on youtube that others have done and i really wanted to give my family home video the best i can

[ChiDragon]

Originally Posted by flashmaster

i have the original 8mm and its lovely and sharp
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i will record it in hd with my phone

wat.

[flashmaster]

Originally Posted by ChiDragon

wat.

lol why its has full HD and is better image then my Panasonic video camera i brought 2 years ago. i will test both too see which one is best but no matter which either will be a massive improvement to the old video copy we have of it...when i first saw our family film played from the projector it was like watching it for the first time. and will be the best any of my family have seen it since the late 70s so i am over the moon