16mm 'Home' Telecine job and its woes. HELP!

[Gerry62]

Ok,
I want to simply get this file to stop its merry dance of alternitive fields merging,
What I tried,
Well I tried to simply de-interlace and of course every 4 or 5 frames two frames would be merged, ok I thought, lets try the other field, Its the same BUT at difrent spots, question is.. Is there a way to deinterlace said file 'missing' the merged feilds?

Or is that just impossible

Here's a sample in DV (how it was Telecined)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O9ZJD3MP

forgive me if this is a dopey question, but NTSC is not my feild, Pal transfers are usualy quite simple to sort!

I supose another question would be is how to get it back to 24p after deinterlaceing? I don't atually know (never played much with NTSC)

But would very much like to know how to fix the filed/frame merging prob, I could go and do it manually but that would take bloody years.

[2Bdecided]

Some clever person is going to give you a script to do a wonderful restoration on that. It's certainly possible.

Some smart person is going to point to the same cartoon, in pristine form, on YouTube and/or DVD and save you the trouble

Cheers,
David.

[librarian]

A quick try:

LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\mt_masktools-25.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\average.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\Removegrains.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\RepairS.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\RemovedirtS.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\Tivtc.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\Yadifmod.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\nnedi3.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\Tisophote.dll")
LoadPlugin("Your_Path_here\FFt3dfilter.dll")
Import(""Your_Path_here\srestore.avsi")

FFmpegsource("Felix Interlaced.avi")

Yadifmod(mode=1,edeint=nnedi3(field=2))

Srestore(frate=24)

############now your clips is 24 fps without fieldblending, as requested. If you want to denoise it, you can apply this: ############
Greyscale().converttoyv12()

tweak(bright=8,cont=1.1)

Tisophote()

grain=mt_makediff(removegrain(17,0))# save a bit of original grain

Removedirt()#_grey=true give me a few random green screens

fft3dfilter(sigma=1,sigma4=6)

mt_adddiff(grain)# recover original grain 



function RemoveDirt(clip input, bool "_grey", int "repmode") 
{
    _grey=default(_grey, false)
	repmode=default(repmode, 16)
	clmode=17
	clensed=Clense(input, grey=_grey, cache=4)
	sbegin = ForwardClense(input, grey=_grey, cache=-1)
	send = BackwardClense(input, grey=_grey, cache=-1)
	alt=Repair(SCSelect(input, sbegin, send, clensed, debug=true), input, mode=repmode, modeU = _grey ? -1 : repmode ) 
	restore=Repair(clensed, input, mode=repmode, modeU = _grey ? -1 : repmode)
	corrected=RestoreMotionBlocks(clensed, restore, neighbour=input, alternative=alt, gmthreshold=70, dist=1, dmode=2, debug=false,\
 	noise=10, noisy=12, grey=_grey)
	return RemoveGrain(corrected, mode=clmode, modeU = _grey ? -1 : clmode )
}

[Gerry62]

Originally Posted by 2Bdecided

Some clever person is going to give you a script to do a wonderful restoration on that. It's certainly possible.

Some smart person is going to point to the same cartoon, in pristine form, on YouTube and/or DVD and save you the trouble

Cheers,
David.

Aha, Yes but that won't be half as fun as cleaning it myself!
I LOVE to clean stuff, but hate crap like this with weird telecine jobs!
Thats all im looking for here, is help with the first step, how to eradicate the wierd field blends, the Restoration is all sorted and Id prefer no help along those lines whatsoever!

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@Gerry62

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[Gerry62]

Originally Posted by neuron2

@Gerry62

Please do not delete threads after others have answered. Thank you.

Apologies, I diddnt want to waste anyone's time, Sorry for my stupidness!

[Gerry62]

Thanks librarian that first part before the fixing stage works brilliantly, Exactly what I needed, Thanks heaps!
Interesting too see your method of cleaning too, although I don't use scripts to do any of the cleaning work I can see how yours works, and in fact is the first time ive seen fft3dfilter in action so thanks for that.

Bet yeah, much better prints of this particular short exist and no doubt are on Youtube (abet in crappy bitrate), That's not the point in cleaning this, I usually work with one of a kind UK TV, so stuffing about with this print even though its completely 'superseded' It lets me practice on stuff. Plus as I said before I get plesure out of cleaning stuff! No matter if a thousand better dupe prints exist Ill learn a thing or two in the process!

Can anyone help me understand how the following line works?
Yadifmod(mode=1,edeint=nnedi3(field=2))

Its great to be able to fix the issue and my friend has sevral films in the same state, But id like to know how this atually works, I'm not mearly content with fixing the issue but learning the why and how as well, sorry for being a pain!

[librarian]

You are welcome.
Yadifmod(mode=1, edeint=nnedi3(field=2)) is a smart bobber (wich use spatial interpolation given by nnedi3).
The hard work (deblendig) is done by Srestore.
As to the cleaning part of the script: sorry for the OT.

[Gerry62]

Originally Posted by librarian

As to the cleaning part of the script: sorry for the OT.

No thanks for it anyway! Interesting to see what Syth will do cleaning wise, Its not my cup of tea personally as I clean dirt and crud by hand, yeah, sounds insane but its like meditation for me.
Ive never found a dirt remedy that will just target the dirt and not start to 'clean away' detail and movement, once it starts doing that its usuless in my book, but then again it's all down to your sourse, the one I have here is a shocker, looks like it was transferd on a Telecine with a 60YO Vidcon tube passed though a lowband video stage, so not the ideal of sources to even consider doing any 'real' work on but it passes the time!

Ill read all the 'manuals' on the functions soon! Im amazed that a dll will figure out the duff field and use the other, knocks me out!. Pity it had to be deinterlaced chucking out half the rez but by god im still impressed. double wow. I have a few really shocking projects ive been wanting to work on that have simular isuues (sometimes much much worse) Ill see about running it though em!