In Trouble with the Deen

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:39 pm

MaximoffZero wrote:I was testing it on Fullmetal Alchemist because I noticed that that series in particular isn't encoded very well (I find this ironic considering that usually it's the unpopular animes that look crappy) and it needed some cleanup.

Huh? When I worked with FMA it was some of the cleanest R1 footage I'd ever seen.

MaximoffZero · Post by **MaximoffZero** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:25 pm

Well I mean I've seen a lot worse (I own Street Fighter II V - horrible!) but I guess I was just expecting FMA to be next-to-perfect considering that it's one of the better-selling ones. I was surprised to see how blocky it was in some spots. Is it the worst-looking anime DVD? Not by a long shot. I just expected it to be better. I'm a little spoiled I guess.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:29 pm

MaximoffZero wrote:Well I mean I've seen a lot worse (I own Street Fighter II V - horrible!)

Haha I just bought it on dvd (aussie releases are slow)
I've been thinking of doing something along those lines, and I'd be interested in seeing where you had problems with crappy footage and how you got around it.

MaximoffZero · Post by **MaximoffZero** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:19 am

Haha. Just because you mentioned it, I think I'll pull out SFIIV again tonight and see what I can do about cleaning it up. I've actually made an AMV with it before but I didn't know what I was doing back then and basically didn't filter the image at all (and in fact made it worse via encoding). When I get home from work I'll see about using Deen (or something) on it and see what happens. If I can get a good script going, I'll post it.

MaximoffZero · Post by **MaximoffZero** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:41 pm

Okay, I'm home and I've played around with it a bit (actually, for quite a while) and this is the best I've gotten it so far:

Before/After

This is the script I used to get there:

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Import ("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfRainbow-v0.31.avsi")
Import ("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.52a.avsi")
MPEG2Source ("C:\Project Folder\SFIIVTest\SFIIVTest.d2v")
AudioDub (WavSource ("C:\Project Folder\SFIIVTest\SFIIVTest T01 2_0ch 192Kbps 48KHz.wav"))
Telecide(order=1,guide=1) 
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
MSmooth()
FluxSmoothST()
MfToon()
Tweak (hue=4.0,sat=1.2, bright=20, cont=1.12)
Crop (8,6,-8,-6)
LanczosResize (640,480)

This is definitely not perfect, however. In some spots it looks great but in other spots it looks like its overkill. Also, there's quite a bit of rainbow in this anime and I tried using mfrainbow to get rid of it but it looked like it was distorting the colors so I took it off.

Anyway, that's the best I've gotten it for right now. If anyone has any more suggestions let me know.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:05 pm

MaximoffZero wrote:This is definitely not perfect, however. In some spots it looks great but in other spots it looks like its overkill. Also, there's quite a bit of rainbow in this anime and I tried using mfrainbow to get rid of it but it looked like it was distorting the colors so I took it off.

Anyway, that's the best I've gotten it for right now. If anyone has any more suggestions let me know.

Rather than mfrainbow, try DFMDeRainbow and/or LUTDeRainbow. I was able to kill like 99% of the [horrendous] rainbowing in the original AnimeEigo release of Oh My Goddess! by hitting it with that combo.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:46 pm

I think it's a little high on the tweak brightness.
are there splotches on the middle finger? *squints*
try mftoon at half strength (128) less overkill that way.
I does look better.

*steals script for later*

MaximoffZero · Post by **MaximoffZero** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:46 pm

Thanks for the advice, Qyot. I think I'm done playing with it for today. Here's the script that looks the best IMO:

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Import ("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DFMDeRainbow.avsi")
Import ("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.52a.avsi")
Import ("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\fastlinedarken.avsi")
MPEG2Source ("C:\Project Folder\SFIIVTest\SFIIVTest.d2v")
AudioDub (WavSource ("C:\Project Folder\SFIIVTest\SFIIVTest T01 2_0ch 192Kbps 48KHz.wav"))
Telecide(order=1,guide=1) 
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=2)
Deen ("w3d",4) 
DFMDeRainbow()
MfToon()
fastlinedarken()
Tweak (hue=4.0,sat=1.2, bright=20, cont=1.12)
Crop (8,6,-8,-6)
LanczosResize (640,480)

MaximoffZero · Post by **MaximoffZero** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:52 pm

Oh and sorry Autraya you must have posted at the same time I was typing my reply. I'll keep that in mind with Mftoon. As far as the splotches go, I've concluded that was MSmooth doing that. I know I've already complained about splotches using Deen, but in this case it seemed to do the better job.

As far as tweak goes, the anime in general does need a good amount of brightness. It's really dark in some scenes and its hard to tell what's going on. So far, I haven't found a scene where it was too bright on this setting.

And since I can't copyright AVS scripts, I guess you're free to steal.