A really messy clip, can't figure out how to clean it

[Zarxrax]

It's a tv capture, so its going to look bad no matter what.

[Hareoic]

It's a tv capture, so its going to look bad no matter what.

Well the others didn't look nearly as bad as this one in particular.

[Zarxrax]

Hmm well it already looks way oversmoothed and lacking detail, so I would be very cautious adding any denoisers on it. If anything, maybe just some very light stuff, or just temporal denoisers. Also try some line darkening, maybe fastlinedarken()

[Hareoic]

Found out I don't have that with the AMVApp... Nor can I find a place to download it that works. However, I found a script that works out everything but some discoloration around the edges of the lines:

UnDot
DeBlock(quant=15)
deen("w3d",4,7,7)
deen("w2d",3,6,6)
FluxsmoothST()
VagueDenoiser()
RemoveGrain()
Toon(Strength=0)
vmToon(strength=24, xstren=128)
DeDot

Might have been overkill, but it looks nicer to me.
The results can be seen here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TX8TBBOX

[Melichan923]

I definitely agree with Zarxrax. It's lacking a lot of detail already, so you might want to use very little smoothing if any at all. I'd go for sharpening and line darkening.

Using deen is great, but using it twice is unnecessary. I took out the extra deen you added and replaced it with a very mild one: undot(). I lowered strength of the deen. I kept your vmtoon setting, but upped the strength just a bit. I added msharpen.

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deen("w3d",3,5,5)
undot()
vmToon(strength=35, xstren=128)
msharpen(threshold=10,strength=80,highq=true)

Some pictures of the results:







What may work one scene may not be the greatest for another (like a scene set outside during nighttime), so test the script you want to use with different scenes and try to find a balance that works good for both dark and light scenes.

I hope this helps you out.

[LivingFlame]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious, Melichan. How do you alter the BeforeAfterLine code to make it split the frame horizontally?

[Kalium]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious, Melichan. How do you alter the BeforeAfterLine code to make it split the frame horizontally?

Check the documentation for BeforeAfter. Your answer is there.

[LivingFlame]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious, Melichan. How do you alter the BeforeAfterLine code to make it split the frame horizontally?

Check the documentation for BeforeAfter. Your answer is there.

Believe me, if I had such documentation, I wouldn't be bothering to ask here.

[Melichan923]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm curious, Melichan. How do you alter the BeforeAfterLine code to make it split the frame horizontally?

Vertical Line:

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beforeafterline(1,"""deen("w3d",4,7,7).vmToon(strength=24, xstren=128)""")

Horizontal Line:

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beforeafterline(0,"""deen("w3d",4,7,7).vmToon(strength=24, xstren=128)""")

Just change the first 1 to a 0 and the line changes from vertical to horizontal.

[LivingFlame]

Just change the first 1 to a 0 and the line changes from vertical to horizontal.

Thank you very much for the straight answer, Melichan. I always wondered what the 1 was for, lol.