Suggestions for improving Love Hina footage quality

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:43 am

For source that switches back and forth between top-field first and bottom-field first, I've found that some very agressive settingsw for Telecide tend to be in order, though they slow the script way down making it a bit of a pain to edit with. Try this:

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Telecide(order=*, mode=4, vthresh=20)
Decimate(mode=2)

Replace the * with the predominant field order for that .d2v file. vthresh=20 is a guess, you may have to lower it to catch small things like mouth movements. If you are noticing ugly frames at scene changes as well, try adding back=1 as well.

emopunk1 · Post by **emopunk1** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:30 am

Vdub is giving me an error message:

"Telecide does not have a named argument "mode" "

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:12 am

Crap....that's because you're using the old one.

Take that LoadPlugin() line for the old one out and it should work.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:31 pm

This is the script I'm currently using for a project.

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mpeg2source("F:\DVD2AVI Source\Love Hina by DVD\Ep 01-04.d2v")

telecide(order=1,guide=0,hints=true,post=2)
decimate(cycle=5,mode=2)

Assumefps(24)
Crop(6,0,-6,-2)

lanczosresize(720,480)
fft3dfilter()
fluxsmoothst()
deen("a3d",2)

bicubicresize(640,480,0,0.5)

The FFT3dfilter can be found here: http://www.avisynth.org/fizick/fft3dfil ... ilter.html

Simply stick it in the avisynth plugin directory. Be sure to stick the other dll where the linked page says to else the plugin won't work.

emopunk1 · Post by **emopunk1** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:28 pm

badmartialarts wrote:Crap....that's because you're using the old one.
Take that LoadPlugin() line for the old one out and it should work.

I actually did remove it and still got the same error message.

I tried to install fft3dfilter and vdub couldn't find it at all. (I thought installed correctly like the website site said to do)

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:02 pm

Exchange "mode" for "post" and it should work. (I mix up Telecide and Decimate's options all the time). Or just use Corran's script...guide=0 might work a lot better.

emopunk1 · Post by **emopunk1** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:02 am

I've tried Corran's script, except I can't get the FFT3dfilter to work.

So far, I think using decomb4 helped a lot (since I didn't have to keep changing order for each episode), even though there are a few minor lines during certain scenes with mouths moving (and I can't use vthresh), so I'm still trying figure out something else.

Any other advice?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:33 am

The parameter known as <i>vthresh</i> in Decomb 5 is known as <i>threshold</i> in Decomb 4, I believe. It's all in the documentation.

emopunk1 · Post by **emopunk1** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:41 pm

I got it to work now, after setting threshold=1. The lines are pretty much gone now, but some of the mouths that are moving seem a little blurry.

So far, this is the current code

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LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\alternatives\Decomb4.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\LOVE_HINA_VOL_1\VIDEO_TS\eps3.d2v",cpu=4)
telecide(guide=1,threshold=1)
decimate(cycle=5,mode=2)
fluxsmoothst()
deen("a3d", 3, 10, 12)
ColorYUV(gain_u=4)
converttorgb32()

Would it be a bad idea (or more specifically, would I be in trouble with the mods/admin)to post a link to the avi I just created to show everyone what my footage currently looks like?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:11 pm

Just use the BeforeAfter thing, and post pictures.