Artifacts in Anime/Toon Footage

[Mister Hatt]

You are nuking your footage with that filterchain. I think you know what that means. You need to revise your filtering (:EFFORT:) or not filter at all (:LAZYMODO:). I would suggest the latter. A high motion vid won't even let the footage make a difference to you really, so it's not all that big a deal. Unfiltered video ALWAYS looks better than overfiltered.

[Anno-san]

^
I used TemporalDegrain because the filter was severely grainy. If temporaldegrain isn't the right filter to fix this (assuming the problem even is grain) then suggest another filter. If I'm overfiltering then please make some specific script change suggestions.

Also stop calling me "lazy" and making statements about my character. I could do the same to others on this forum but I don not. Argue points and don't post insulting or offensive statements.

[mirkosp]

He didn't say you're lazy. He just suggested you should be in this case because the effort would probably be not worth it. That's up to you to decide, though.

[Mister Hatt]

Also, about grain, a good friend of mine wrote about how grain is not a defect: read it.

[mirkosp]

Also, about grain, a good friend of mine wrote about how grain is not a defect: read it.

Grain isn't a defect, but I think in this case he just meant actual noise and just didn't call it properly. Refer to this screenshot. Does show noise aside for the bad chroma subsampling.

[Mister Hatt]

Word, that is indeed noise and not grain. People should word their posts correctly.

[post-it]

Word, that is indeed noise and not grain.
People should word their posts correctly.

.. An Example of Picture(s) should be posted .. showing what each article is being talked about.
.. it is a simple way to narrow-down where the problem might be

.. just an opinion

P.S. .. words fail too many times; You already know that from my transliterations on this board.
[ and yeah, it might be a little 1960'ish to do things with pictures but; everyone knew what we
were talking about back then .. today, people HAVE TO ASK, "know what I mean?" while they themselves
are trying to explain what THEY are trying to say: I don't like it but, the medium we're call communication
seems to be breaking-down from Improperly Identifiable Wordings. Even the 800 AD Church's understood
that Pictures could Identify what the commoners could not pronounce. ]

[Mister Hatt]

I've explained it often enough. Grain is of a uniform size and only impacts the luma channel. It is usually constant but sometimes changes across frames. Noise is uneven in size, often has coloured tints like purple, green, and red, and is often quite blocky. They are easy to tell apart. Dirt is a type of small eneven noise on fine edges, like the points of hair. It usually sits in the luma channel though. Anything else?

[post-it]

.. nope; that's as direct as possible. 'me need-um a dirt remover!

^_^ .. THx

[mirkosp]

I've explained it often enough. Grain is of a uniform size and only impacts the luma channel. It is usually constant but sometimes changes across frames. Noise is uneven in size, often has coloured tints like purple, green, and red, and is often quite blocky. They are easy to tell apart. Dirt is a type of small eneven noise on fine edges, like the points of hair. It usually sits in the luma channel though. Anything else?

Scratches, which happen in old footage, or are used these days as an "old looking" effect.