Need help cleaning up some footage. (pic included)

[Qyot27]

The is a filter called DeDot() that might do what you need. It has to go before deinterlacing I believe.

Here is an example that I used it in.

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Mpeg2Source("F:\DVD2AVI Source\Kenshin OVA\Betrayal.d2v")
Dedot()
fft3dfilter()
TomsMoComp(1,5,1)
Crop(8,0,-8,0)
Bicubicresize(640,480)
sdderainbow()
HQDN3D()
fastlinedarken()
tweak(sat=1.1)

http://www.corranproductions.com/misc_f ... shinBA.png

I could so have used that filter when I was remastering my Offspring/Evangelion video (technically, the quick shot of South Park in that video, but whatever).

[Corran]

BTW, DeDot isn't in the AMVapp so you have to get it here: http://nullinfo.s21.xrea.com/

[x_rex30]

At first I didn't notice the dots, but I did notice something else...

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>.>

My avatar should explain that. That is Bible Black: New Testament

[x_rex30]

Alright, I got the problem fixed thanx to Mug Funky at the doom9 forums.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=103476

but now I have an additional problem I'm trying to fix.

Instead of starting another thread.. I thought I'd post some more pics from another series I'm having trouble with that is Pure Interlaced. I have a lot of trouble with Pure Interlaced footage. I have made it so you don't see much blended frames or interlacing lines showing up everywhere.. but it did add another problem to deal with and I'm unsure what it is or how to approach it. sorry I didn't make a clip. If you look at the collar in the pictures.. you'll see a lot of moving black dots moving by and on the outline of the collar. I don't know what to do about it, I'm sure there is some filter out there that might help in cleaning that up.







and here's a clip to examine.

http://stormmetropolis.com/test/test.avi

Any help is appreciated. Thanks! ^_^

[DriftRoot]

x_rex30: I peeked at this thread because I was having a similar problem with my footage, and then sort of followed you around between here and Doom9 (does that make me a stalker?) to find out what you learned. I can't help with your most recent question, but since anyone searching for help on "dot crawl" will pull up this thread, I thought I'd post my AVS script that finally fixed my problem. It took a bunch of fiddling, mostly trial and error, and the script slows down the file almost to a standstill, but you can pull clips from it, at least. One or two action scenes display a little shimmering, but after investigation, this seems to be something inherent to the original animation and not anything I can fix.

The anime is Saiyuki, btw, and this is just for Disc 1 (eps. 1-5) which is hybrid footage. The OTHER discs are compressed differently (I'd love to know why) and need different treatment. I haven't tried to completely script out all their problems yet, and I'm dreading it! If someone thinks I should add this AVS script to the AMVwiki, let me know. Saiyuki isn't even listed there.

mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren Chicoine\My Documents\Addict\Disc 1\Disc 1.d2v",cpu=4,upconv=true)
DeDot
FluxSmoothT(7)
SpaceDust
LimitedSharpen()
Telecide(order=1,guide=1)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
AssumeFPS(24)
ConvertToRGB24()

I found the LimitedSharpen was a real help, as other sharpening filters kind of undid my FluxSmooth efforts. Don't yell at me for the SpaceDust filter, I don't even remember what it does, all I know is that it doesn't do anything BAD to my footage and is supposed to do something good (unless it's just a placebo effect?). FaeryDust and PixieDust (I think that's what they're called) eventually caused massive VDM crashing, although they worked decentl enough for a little while.

[DriftRoot]

Drat, I forgot to remove my name. ^_^ Now someone can stalk ME.

[Scintilla]

mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Name Removed\My Documents\Addict\Disc 1\Disc 1.d2v",cpu=4,upconv=true)
DeDot
FluxSmoothT(7)
SpaceDust
LimitedSharpen()
Telecide(order=1,guide=1)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
AssumeFPS(24)
ConvertToRGB24()

I found the LimitedSharpen was a real help, as other sharpening filters kind of undid my FluxSmooth efforts. Don't yell at me for the SpaceDust filter, I don't even remember what it does, all I know is that it doesn't do anything BAD to my footage and is supposed to do something good (unless it's just a placebo effect?). FaeryDust and PixieDust (I think that's what they're called) eventually caused massive VDM crashing, although they worked decentl enough for a little while.

1. Those two lines should be "DeDot<b>()</b>" and "SpaceDust<b>()</b>". Donald Graft has discovered that omitting the parentheses can cause up to a 25% speed penalty.

2. FluxSmooth, SpaceDust, and LimitedSharpen should go <i>after</i> the IVTC.

3. Why the conversion to RGB24? RGB32 is faster to process. Unless this script is going into something that requires RGB24, like VFAPI or TMPGEnc?

SpaceDust is a spatial smoother (and not a bad one at that!), FaeryDust is a temporal smoother, and PixieDust is both. Though it'll slow your script to a crawl, I've never had problems with PixieDust crashing a program, even on my old machine with "only" 512 MB of RAM. However, if you try to call one of the Dust filters on YV12 footage (not a problem here, as you've upconverted to YUY2) or invoke them more than once in the same script, then yeah, you'll get a crash.

/me wishes Steady would come back and write up a version of the Dust filters for AVISynth 2.5.x, or at least release the source code for the current (rather old) version.