Deinterlacing CGI animation

Skysaurus · Post by **Skysaurus** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:34 pm

Hey all, I'm working on making my first AMV, using footage from Beast Wars, a computer-animated series. I've been following Ermac & Absolute Destiny's guide on how to get the ripped DVD footage ready for editing, but it seems I've hit a snag - namely, I can't seem to get the footage completely deinterlaced. At best, I can get it so that visibly interlaced frames are rare, but still noticeably present. Does anyone have any suggestions on what settings might be good for this kind of animation?

Thanks in advance.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:01 pm

What are you doing?

And what how is the original source? Telecined, fully interlaced, or other?

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:49 pm

are you sure what you're seeing isn't blended footage? Maybe you could upload and example of what it looks like?

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:22 pm

Virtual Dub Mod.
Filters>Deinterlance
Re Save

At least that's how I do my stuff =\

Skysaurus · Post by **Skysaurus** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:27 am

What are you doing?

And what how is the original source? Telecined, fully interlaced, or other?

I've got the footage indexed into a .d2v file with an accompanying avisynth file, and now I'm trying to deinterlace the footage with VirtualDubMod.

I've been working off the assumption that the source is fully interlaced. However, I'm a bit of a n00b to this, so I might be wrong about that.

are you sure what you're seeing isn't blended footage? Maybe you could upload and example of what it looks like?

Okay, currently the avisynth file is using the following scripts:
Telecide(order=1,guide=1,show=true)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)

Here is a frame that's been deinterlaced.

Here is a frame that still turned out interlaced.[/url]

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:24 pm

that looks more like blending than interlacing.
Vicbond actually covers in his guide that the decomb plugin doesn't work as well for CG.

for that case (since I've never worked with all CG animation before) I wouldn't know what to use.

ideas: smart/adaptive blending, smart bobbing
maybe someone could provide a better suggestion

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:51 am

yeah it looks like blending to me too. Are you using PAL dvd's?

anyway this is the current deblend script I'm using

converttoYV12()
kernelbob(1,4)
unblend()
Decimate(4).Decimate(3)
converttoRGB24()

It's by no means perfect so feel free to have a mess around yourself.

Skysaurus · Post by **Skysaurus** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:15 pm

The DVD's are NTSC with 29.97 fps.

I think they may be fully interlaced... without any sort of deinterlacing script, each frame has interlacing wherever there is movement. There's no set pattern to it.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:42 am

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TFM(order=-1,mode=5,PP=7,field=-1,slow=2)
TDecimate()
TIsophote()

Requires TIVTC and TIsophote.

I dunno how much that'll help, but it deals with a lot of sources very nicely.