Trying to make a Ranma vid...do I even have a chance?

[y2kwizard]

Hello, all. I've come up with an idea for a Ranma 1/2 AMV, and I've ripped all my VOBs and taken them through DVD2AVI. I'm now trying to reconstruct the original progressive frames, and it seems that all is lost.

The suggested use of the Decomb filter by the guides didn't help at all. This seems to be a common problem among people trying to do the same thing with Ranma DVDs and Eva DVDs. The ONLY thing that I've hard might help would be to use an adaptive deinterlacer on my footage...trythil suggested it a while back.

Has anyone had any success in restoring the original ranma frames? Can anyone explain to me WHY the original frames can't be reconstructed? What on Earth did the guys in charge of encoding do to make my source so ugly?

THanks very much!

[Anime2Envy]

hmm, I think what heppened is that for some reason the telecineing precess got fubared when they did it. What may is to just deinterlace and leave the framerate at 29.97 FPS. I did this with blueseed and it came out OK. Not great, Just OK.

[trythil]

Ranma 1/2, if I recall correctly, has a weird problem in which the picture gradually fades between two interlaced frames from top to bottom.

Here's a Usenet post that outlines the "polygonal prism telecine", which leads to similar field-blending issues. (I think AD might have linked this same post a while back, but I can't remember right now...I just Googled this )

In any case, without the use of really special software as mentioned in the linked Usenet post, I think your best shot will be to use an adaptive deinterlacer, i.e. Kerneldeint().

Speaking of AD -- he used Ramna 1/2 footage in IWIWAL, and it looked fairly clean. Might want to ask him what he did.

[MSI-Ferret]

man I have perfect ranma copies (mind you i've only done the first 2 movies...)

Use 'DVD Ripper' (sorry I can't remember where to get it.. I might upload it to my site one day...)

then flaskMpeg and I got clean AVI Files