Qyot27 wrote:Well, it's good there was some improvement, but when I said that deen's settings were too high, I meant that using 4 for your radius, especially with high values for the other two, was overkill. I rarely ever go above deen("w3d",3,8,10) as an upper limit, and usually use it somewhere between 2,8,8 and 3,6,8 - 2,8,8 being more common by far. If I want temporal smoothing in there too, I extend it out to deen("w3d",2,8,8,8,8) - the thing to understand about filtering is that how much to do depends on how good or bad the source footage is.
Most shows produced the last 8 or 9 years are nowhere near bad enough to require heavy smoothing or even heavy sharpening (some of the U.S. domestic releases of the 2001-2004 period might, though). And that kind of stuff will harm the source even more than it might seem to help. It's like attacking the footage with a meat cleaver when what you really need is a scalpel.
If you're wanting to use gradfunkmirror, you don't call it like that. Copy and paste the function into a separate file, gradfunkmirror.avsi, and stick that into your plugins folder, then use it like you would any other filter. The way you have the script right now means you're not even using gradfunkmirror, because you aren't calling it.
Oh. I had no idea that's how you use it. There we go. Here's what I have now.
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ConvertToYV12()
Deen(mode="a2d", rad=4, thrY=5, thrUV=9, min=0.5)
VagueDenoiser(threshold=2, method=3, nsteps=6, chromaT=2.0)
msharpen(threshold=15,strength=120)
GradFunkMirror(3)
Well, it's good there was some improvement, but when I said that deen's settings were too high, I meant that using 4 for your radius, especially with high values for the other two, was overkill. I rarely ever go above deen("w3d",3,8,10) as an upper limit, and usually use it somewhere between 2,8,8 and 3,6,8 - 2,8,8 being more common by far. If I want temporal smoothing in there too, I extend it out to deen("w3d",2,8,8,8,8) - the thing to understand about filtering is that how much to do depends on how good or bad the source footage is.
I feel really bad asking, but if you wouldn't mind could you explain what "radius" and "threshold" are? I tried changing the radius and the two threshold values with the code I have now just to see what happens and I'm not really seeing much of a difference. I read bits of Scintilla guides again to try and get my head to osmosis the knowledge in, but the farthest my brain got was that thrY and thrUV deal with chroma and luma. So now I don't know what either of those are. The best guess is chroma has to do with color and luma has to do with light, but that's vague and not helpful. I did notice some minor noise like smoothing on another part of the clip that is got rid of.
Scintilla wrote:noelle675 wrote:I took another look at Scintilla's guide and she has the values labeled.

I swear, this never gets old!
You mean I'm not the first idiot you've enlightened by naming values?

And while you're helping I got to thank you for your wonderful guides. They're extremely helpful.