Best and worst spacial smoothers

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:03 pm

I'm just curious about what smoothers you use to clean up your anime sources and how well they work.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:42 pm

I use deen. Always worked pretty well for me. I was using vaguedenoiser for a while. Its pretty a really good one too, but I moved back to deen.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:51 pm

I haven't looked at the state of things lately, but the last time I did some tests between deen, vaguedenoiser, and I think mipsmooth. Vaguedenoiser is more softening than smoothing, mipsmooth didn't work to my liking, and deen produces the traditional 2dcleaner effect. I think it comes down to what you're trying to do. For cleaning, deen seems to be the best. For compressibility, vaguedenoiser is better.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:14 pm

I just use Convolution3D.

Plus MergeChroma(SpatialSoften()) for de-rainbowing, WarpSharp for thinning out character outlines, and Tweak for color correction.

Exception: AEO:EB, which had no filters whatsoever slapped on it, except a resize.

I guess I should also say that I'm using AVISynth 2.0.6.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:05 pm

Convolution 3D is Temporal smoother isn't it?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:12 pm

It's both. For rainbows, sh0dan's derainbow script is the best thing I've used. For line enhancement, mftoon can't be beat.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:58 pm

That's what I thought. And yes, mftoon is a godsend.