Suggested scripts

[batmanMG]

i need new eyes... or a better attunement to detail... i can't tell the diff between the ones above... but thats not the point

been working on a place promised in our early days video for 2 years now and am a cluts with the scripts... anyone know the best quality to get...? i've tried alot but much of it blurs up the backgrounds too much wich are some of the most beautiful parts

[Krisqo]

Go gentle on the scripting for Place Promised. I only used MFToon and a light deen filter.

[Autraya]

i need new eyes... or a better attunement to detail... i can't tell the diff between the ones above... but thats not the point

yeah sorry probably a bad example, and originally I didn't use fastlinedarken on the TV series like in the shots above , I was just trying to show the difference between warpsharp/fastlinedarken in a different order.

[Sereenie]

I'll jump in because I too need a new set of eyes and some advice. I've been fiddling with this since Friday and I seem to be going nowhere fast.

Well, that's not absolutely true. I'm... somewhat happy with the current results, considering the source. The episodes are coming out great, but the OPs look like crap. Here is where I stand now (take note that the before shots all have cpu=6, which is why they don't look quite *that* bad).

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4

I went a bit overboard with the saturation, but considering how washed out the source is, I can't say it really hurts. There also seems to be slight (green? yellow?) tinge, especially visible in the moon and in various whites (the castle at the beginning especially, but I don,t think I have a screenshot for that), but I can't manage to get rid of it. I tried coloryuv(gain) for both the u and the v, individually and together, up to 15 each, but it didn't seem to solve the problem. Plus, it made my blacks non-black. I tried compensating by playing with brightness and contrast, but that didn't work either.

There's also sharpening artefacts, but taking out the sharpening makes everything look soft. And I can't quite see myself smoothing things even more. I already think I may have overdone it a bit, though it mostly looks nice.

But my biggest problem is that the OPs seem to have been interlaced with a different method than the episodes, because no matter what I try, I always end up with either some interlacing left or with blends, which doesn't happen anywhere else (well, maybe in the EDs, but I haven't ripped those).

See how crappy it looks!

Actually, that one almost looks nice. I've tried various methods, and while IVTC and such gave me somewhat decent results, there were still interlacing remnants and blending left over here and there. Sangnom+Unblend at least smooth the blending so it fits in better with the rest of the footage at regular speed. Still, I'd rather have no blending at al. Plus, the script is now five times slower than it was when I was just IVTCing.

Here's my current script

mpeg2source("path",ipp=true,cpu=6)
SangNom(order=1,aa=32)
Unblend()
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
Crop(8, 0, -8, -0)
degrainmedian().
tweak(bright=-20,sat=1.6,cont=1.2)
fft3dfilter(sigma=5,plane=4,bw=48,bh=48,bt=4,ow=24,oh=24)
mftoonlite()
LimitedSharpen(ss_x=2.0, ss_y=2.0,Smode=3)
Lanczosresize(640,480)

I realise I can resize straight in Limitedsharpen, but I don't know if that would help me gain speed. Oh, and I used Degrainmedian because fft3d3's author recommended to do so (yes! I RTFM!), so I gave it a try. I stuck the tweaks in-between thinking it couldn't hurt to re-smooth after, but I'm not too sure about that anymore. I don't need a Beforeafter, I need an Afterafter to compare the results of various combinations and help me make up my mind! ^_^;

So, does anyone have any recommendations for me? Has any one else tackled successfully with uncut season 1 of Sailor Moon? Any help will be much appreciated, because I'm running out of ideas!

Thanks!

S.

[jasper-isis]

I think two of the reason that the AMVWiki compilation didn't work out were (1) the focus on postprocessing and (2) the fact that each script went by its submitter's name, thus making it awkward for other people to come in take full advantage of the wiki by adding their own improvements. Postprocessing scripts are better passed along on a case-by-case basis, with the more advanced avisynth user and the person seeking advice having a conversation.

We would probably be better off with a compilation of simply deinterlacing scripts. There's less disagreement about what makes good deinterlacing vs. what makes good image quality, and properly restored footage is always a good thing. We could make a listing of shows (noted with NTSC or PAL), and under each would be a user-submitted script (or two). Scripts can gain reliability by being checked and affirmed by other people (this can be denoted by *'s or something).

Yes, we'll still have the people-blindly-copying-scripts-without-knowing-wtf-they're-doing problem, but they'll at least be copying "harmless" stuff that people generally agree upon.

Go gentle on the scripting for Place Promised. I only used MFToon and a light deen filter.

I don't know if I would consider mftoon "gentle" by any means...

Stuff like

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crop(8,0,-8,0)
lanczosresize(720,480) 

illustrates one of my problems with it: people contributing scripts without noting exactly what they were doing. (Yes, I was guilty of this too.)
My objection to that script segment is that it screws with the aspect ratio by clipping off the side black bars and horizontally stretching the image to fit the original image size.

In defense of that...

Some people like to keep a 720x480 lossless copy of their video (deliberately in the wrong AR) for future MPEG-2 mastering purposes, etc. While I now agree that there are better ways of fixing blurry black edges, I've never actually noticed the upsizing (after cropping) degrading image quality in any way. The video, of course, would be resized to the correct AR for internet distribution.

[MousePotato]

rotoscoping > filters!

[Sereenie]

Well, sure! But if there is anything else worth trying first, I'd rather give that a shot!

S.

[Krisqo]

Go gentle on the scripting for Place Promised. I only used MFToon and a light deen filter.

I don't know if I would consider mftoon "gentle" by any means...

I meant that only two filters were needed. MFToon did most of the hard work. It's gentle compared to some I've used.

For example (yes... you may use this without credit) My script for Cardcaptor Sakura DVD1

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LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\TIVTC.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\AMV_SOURCES\CARDCAPTOR1\sakura1-FIXED.d2v",cpu=4,upconv=true)
TFM(d2v="C:\AMV_SOURCES\CARDCAPTOR1\sakura1-FIXED.d2v", PP=0)
Tcomb()
TDecimate(mode=1)
ConvertToYV12()
deen("w2d",7,5,9)
WarpSharp()
FastLineDarken()
SDDerainbow()
tweak(sat=1.4, cont=1.0, bright=-10)
ColorYUV(gain_u=1)
ConvertToRGB32()
Crop(8,60,-8,-60)
BiCubicResize(640,360)
AssumeFPS(24)

I had to do the colorspace change because I couldn't filter anything without using the ConvertToYV12(). Also, the PAR is set to so not to altar the PAR of the two movies which I was using for my video as well.

[kikai_saigono]

For example (yes... you may use this without credit) My script for Cardcaptor Sakura DVD1

*strangles*

[Krisqo]

XD