AviSynth Noob In Distress

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:21 am

Hey all, I've been playing around with AviSynth for a few days now (mostly reading tutorials and looking at plug ins) and I'm not really sure if what I have is really helping (Or if I even need to touch up my clip all that much).

I've been trying to remove some small blocks in the clip and try to brighten the color and sharpen the edges (Without knowing which plug ins or commands are better than others) and I feel I should get some opinions and advice. Here are some before/after pictures and what I've put together for a script so far:

Before:

After:

Here is the script that I used (I've had a lot more in here in the past to view what changes they made, but this is what I have currently):

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AVISource("C:\Documents and Settings\John Faulkner\My Documents\Hig1.avi")
ConvertToYV12()
FRFun7()
Animfiltra()

If anyone can give me some tips I can't thank you enough, I know how hard it is having to put up with people like me

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:17 pm

I've never heard of the plugins you're using

for the very small amount of noise there, I think that fluxsmoothST() should do well (it has been good for cleaning up noise around edges for me)

fastlinedarken should darken the lines a bit and make it look a bit sharper around edges.
limitedsharpen or limitedsharpenfaster is my favorite for doing some general sharpening

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:01 pm

Yeah most of these plugins I figured would end up being obscure since they were picked randomly out of a few lists I looked at FrFun7 is some kind of deblocker and animfiltra is one that showed up in the forum that I tried out, runs extremely slow...

But thank you for recommending those plug ins you use, I'm going to try them right away.

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:02 am

I've made the changes to my script using the plug ins you suggested, and I also managed to find one of the tutorials I haven't read and it helped a lot too. So here is what I have now:

Here is my current script:

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AVISource("C:\Documents and Settings\John Faulkner\My Documents\Hig1.avi")
ConvertToYV12
deen("a3d",4,10,12)
fluxsmoothST()
fastlinedarken()
limitedsharpen()

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:25 am

looking good, though you'll want to find a scene with fine detail to check to see if your settings for deen are taking too much detail away (stuff like fences becoming blurry, brick walls turning into...not brick walls, etc...)

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:25 pm

I'll be sure to do that, thanks for the help and advice you've given me

gerber2022 · Post by **gerber2022** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:19 pm

ok here are some that i use hope this helps and ps if the anime show is new like 2001 to 2008 it won't need much work and sometimes you can mess it up instead of fixing it filters work the best on old anime
RemoveDirt()
RemoveGrain()
Tweak(cont=1.0,sat=1.2,bright=1, hue=0)
deen("c2d",2)
vmtoon(strength=40) if you have a good cpu you will be fine this is a killer one
Tdeint(mode=2)
ColorYUV(gain_u=4) this one you will use on how much old the anime is

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:07 pm

there is no one script that is perfect for all anime.
The R1 of Higurashi here looks pretty darn good, but the R1 Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu is a disaster at best

most anime will need a slightly different script (some may need a significantly different script...depends on the problems in the footage)

you should make scripts to correct problems in the footage

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:52 pm

Yeah I noticed this footage didn't need very much, just a little sharpening and maybe a little color correction still. But I did check my deen settings Kariudo and you were right a lot of my backgrounds got distorted so I just removed deen from my script for now.

Illwilledmarine · Post by **Illwilledmarine** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:24 pm

Well, After being done playing around with my first dvd, I ripped my second one only to find out that Geneon (for one reason or another) made only the first DVD progressive film and the rest Interlaced NTSC. Once again I've gone to the guides and brainstormed different techniques for removing interlacing and this is what I got so far:

This clip basically is as bad as it got for most of the footage, and out of the deinterlacers listed in the guides TomsMoComp seemed to remove the most interlacing. But since I'm so new I'm still not sure if it could be better (that maybe there are other filters that I'm unaware of or if this is as good as it gets)

My current script:

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mpeg2source("C:\DVDrips\WHEN_THEY_CRY_VOL2\VIDEO_TS\DVD2.d2v")
TomsMoComp(0,5,1)
ConvertToYV12()
fluxsmoothST()
fastlinedarken()
limitedsharpen()