More script help! ACK!

[Jenya]

Hookay, slowly but surely, I think I'm making SOME progress. Anyhow, I'm just not sure how to proceed on cleaning up this clip and could use some opinions.
So, here's a pic from the original vid with only framerate and size changes.



And here's the same spot in the vid with this script:

DirectShowSource("C:\AMV\AMV Projects\Wild Arms\Originals\Wilds Arms\WAOP.avi")
ConvertToYV12()
FastLineDarken ()
FRFun7(lambda=1.5)
BicubicResize (720,480)
ChangeFPS(23.976)



I'd put up more, but I don't want to overload the page with pics or whatever. I like the way the noise is cleaned up, but I do notice the sharpness is cut down. But out of the other noise removing filteres I've tried, this seems to do the best. But I haven't been able to to figure out how to use any of the sharpen filters yet. I've tried to load vmToon but can't get the thing to work. I tried everything that was suggested on that one thread about vmToon and LimitedSharpener, but nothing's working. I also want get the picture a bit brighter and I think the color's tint or contrast could use tweaking.

[AaronAMV]

Well try deen? That usually does the trick for me, but it is VERY slow.
To make it brighter
tweak(cont=x,sat=x,bright=x)

[Jenya]

well, deen really leaves a lot of noise behind. Actually, I've decided it doesn't need brightening after all. But I'd like to make the color less washed out looking. And I still can't figure out the sharpener.

Here's two more comparisons.

Before:



After:



Script is the same as above post.

[Krisqo]

Given the original quality that isn't too bad of a cleaning. Since the original source isn't too good, you can't expect to get "perfect" quality.

Try putting Fastlinedarken under your FrFun7. And if you get vmToon to work, you can omit this function.

I find the "toon" sharpeners to be a tad TOO powerful even for low quality footage. You can venture into trying Warpsharp or AWarpsharp. But I've found LimitedSharpenFaster() to work very well in conjunction with fastlinedarken(). But that's just my personal opinion.

So try a script like...

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DirectShowSource("C:\AMV\AMV Projects\Wild Arms\Originals\Wilds Arms\WAOP.avi")
ConvertToYV12()
FRFun7(lambda=1.5)
LimitedSharpenFaster() (or vmToon)
FastLineDarken ()
BicubicResize (720,480)
ChangeFPS(23.976)

And order DOES matter. Always smooth before sharpening or else you will be sharpening noise which is not good.

[Jenya]

Cept I can't get Limitedsharpenfaster to work. Keep getting an error message about missing mt_edge.

[sweetdeily]

I've been stealing Aut's scripts lately and found she tends to use
vmToon(strength=5)
On a lot of her sources it seems to run that fine balance between enhancement and over filtering.
I also though that lancoz was better for resizing (slower but higher quality)

Anyway hope that helps ^_^