About to rip my hair out - Cleaning footage (fushigi yuugi)

[Cosmos Studio]

So, I want to begin by saying that I DO NOT know what I was thinking when I originally started this project last year and did not deinterlace before editing (I'm about to kill myself right now over it). With that said, I'm having huge quality issues even setting the deinterlacing aside. Unfortunatly Fushigi Yuugi is an older series and didn't have a high production value to begin with, top that off with the unmastered DVD's I have to work with and I have major issues.

With just deinterlacing, no filters.


With filters (see script below)


Action scenes (looks about the same with or without filters, screen from with)


Script

AVISource("C:\fy\neverbeenloved.avi")
ConvertToYV12()
AMVDeint(mode=1)
Deen("a2d",2)
FFT3DFilter()
LimitedSharpenFaster(strength=50)
Crop(0,4,-24,-4)
ConvertToRGB24()
AudioDub(last,WAVSource("C:\fy\neverbeenloved.wav"))
SSRC(48000)

I've tried adding and subtracting many different filters, but nothing has made it any better. I'm also not knew to AMV editing at all, but unfortunatly it's been about two years since I last completed a project, so I'm rusty. Thank you for any help. ^^

[Zarxrax]

Try deblock and dfttest. Those might help a little.