Script for Spirited Away?

[Chaobunny12]

Okay, I'm going to sound really stupid here, but I can't really make any sense of these AMV guides. I've always used the same generic script to deinterlace my DVD footage and it has always worked fine.

However, I'm realizing that my Spirited Away footage has really crappy quality compared to the rest of my DVD footage. Since I'm making an AMV for convention submission, this is a big problem.

To cut to the chase; I don't really know all the specifics about the problems. Even though I had the interlacing filter in my script, the final product still had some interlacing, and the picture seems too soft.

Here's the script I usually use for everything:
mpeg2Source("filepath")
Telecide(order=1, guide=1)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
ConvertToRGB32()

I've got enough sense to realize this doesn't work with Spirited Away, but I'm clueless as to what else to do. I don't really know Avisynth that well.

I'm not used to working with older/traditional footage, so has anyone else worked with the American release of Spirited Away that can help me out with a script?

[Kariudo]

post some screenshots that illustrate the problems you're seeing.

Right away though, I can say that you should get TFM (part of the tivtc pagacke available here)
Together, TFM() and TDecimate() do the same thing as Telecide() and Decimate(), but I think TFM does better

[Chaobunny12]

Here are some problem screenshots ( I tried to take screenshots at the worst parts. The interlacing drives me crazy D: )

[Kariudo]

not seeing much of anything that needs to be done besides better deinterlacing/IVTC

get TFM and try TFM(d2v="path",order=-1,mode=5, pp=7, slow=2)

[Chaobunny12]

I downloaded TIVTC and put it in my plugins folder but I'm not finding tfm anywhere and Avisynth won't load it.

[Scintilla]

That'll sometimes happen if you have too many plugins in your plugins directory. Try loading it manually with this line at the top of your script:

LoadPlugin("[whatever the path is]\TIVTC.dll")

[Chaobunny12]

I tried that and it's still not working.

Here's the error message I'm getting, if it helps:

Avisynth open failure:
Script error: Invalid arguments to function "tfm"


I downloaded the TIVTC thing but I'm not finding a file called tfm.dll in the download package, only TIVTC.dll. ((The only thing I found in the package with the name tfm is the C++ script. Not having learned programming yet, I can't make heads or tails of that.))

Here's my current script as well, in case I'm missing something:

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Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\TIVTC.dll")

tfm(d2v="K:\D2V files\spiritedaway.d2v",order=-1,mode=5, pp=7, slow=2)

[Kariudo]

tfm is in tivtc.dll (along with some other functions)

looked at the documentation, and maybe slow got changed to a bool (whose default is true)...so try taking slow=2 out completely

I was getting a similar error when I was messing around with levels() not too long ago, and the only thing that ended up working for me was to specify every parameter for levels (just leaving them at their default values)

if taking slow out doesn't work...try
TFM(order =-1, field=-1, mode=5, PP=7, ovr="", input="", output="", outputC="", debug=false, display=false, slow=true, mChroma=true, cNum=15, cthresh=10, MI=85, chroma=false, blockx=16, blocky=16, y0=0, y1=0, mthresh=5, clip2=NULL, d2v="path", ovrDefault=0)

[Chaobunny12]

Now when I try to run the script, it says

Avisynth open failure:
"I don't know what "NULL" means"

Aside from the creepiness factor of Vdub speaking to me in the first person...what could be wrong now? ><

Here's what I've currently got (I wasn't sure if I was supposed to put something in the quotes, in that case it may be my fault.) I'm really embarrassed that I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\TIVTC.dll")

TFM(order =-1, field=-1, mode=5, PP=7, ovr="", input="", output="", 
outputC="", debug=false, display=false, slow=true, mChroma=true, 
cNum=15, cthresh=10, MI=85, chroma=false, blockx=16, blocky=16, y0=0, 
y1=0, mthresh=5, clip2=NULL, d2v="K:\D2V files\spiritedaway.d2v", 
ovrDefault=0)

[Scintilla]

Then just take out the "clip2=NULL," part.