Pastels and Dot Crawl (?)

[Cambdoranononononono]

So, I'm working on some video game clips I captured, and here's what they look like so far:



Very chalky and



with a great deal of dot crawl. (I think it's dot crawl, anyway. Maybe someone will correct me.)

My current script:

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ConvertToYV12()
DeDot()
TomsMoComp(0,5,1)
BlindPP(cpu=6,quant=15)
removegrain(mode=2)
deen("a3d",1,4,4)
LimitedSharpenFaster(wide=true,edgemode=1,strength=150)
SDDeRainbow()
ConvertToRGB32()

On the off-chance someone cares to mess with an actual clip, I put an unaltered one here.

Any ideas, comments, you're-doing-it-all-wrongs? Thanks in advance.

[Kariudo]

that looks more like aliasing than dot crawl.
try seeing if tisophote() helps at all

and for dot crawl I recommend using tcomb()

[Cambdoranononononono]

Tisophote helped some, though I'm still getting some movement-based artifacts. That leaves the problem of the over-smoothing . . . am I just supposed to decide myself whether I'd rather have that or the other problems from failing to smooth?

Hmm, I'm starting to think that I'd be better off getting S-Video cables and re-recording everything. It's a shame I didn't understand the difference between the inputs four months ago.

[Kariudo]

the rest of it just looks like compression artifacts to me, there's no way that tose setting for deen would be oversmoothing something
and did you play around with the parameters for tisophote?

recapturing might help a bit...but I'm not sure if it'l give you the results you want. Ripping the cutscenes from the disk (if possible) would give you the best quality possible

[Scintilla]

You might want to consider reducing the quantizer on BlindPP, because that's a pretty strong setting you've got right now. Are the blocks really a problem without it?

[Cambdoranononononono]

You might want to consider reducing the quantizer on BlindPP, because that's a pretty strong setting you've got right now. Are the blocks really a problem without it?

You were right that it wasn't necessary; I'm not sure now why I had it so high. Problems persist, however.

the rest of it just looks like compression artifacts to me, there's no way that tose setting for deen would be oversmoothing something
and did you play around with the parameters for tisophote?

recapturing might help a bit...but I'm not sure if it'l give you the results you want. Ripping the cutscenes from the disk (if possible) would give you the best quality possible

I increased tstep a bit on tisophote, yes. I didn't put it too high because that increasing problem #1 noticeably. Also, I'd rip the scenes, but five out of six of the games I used were for the Gamecube.

It sounds like I might just have to live with the footage the way it is? Thanks for the help either way.