Fixing grain and deinterlacing? (Code Geass)

[mirkosp]

The MaskTools.dll is enough. But really, you can do this without HQDering. Smoothd2 should be enough. I was just listing good filters to deal with the issues in your source, but you didn't have to use them all in the same script.

[Dext3r]

Ok this took me a long time to respond to because my internet went out for 5 days.

So I redid all my footage without those unneeded commands, and adding in the Smoothd2, but I'm not sure if its really doing anything?

Here's what was in the old footage:

Secondly, I've noticed a lot of what I think is noise?

Spoiler :

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Here's what came out of the new footage:







Also, I'm now noticing some pixelation throughout (is this the same issue?) that I wouldn't know if it was present in the original since I hadn't gotten that far yet in looking through the footage.

This is from the show itself:



This is from one of the openings:



Thank you to both of you for your time and support.

[l33tmeatwad]

I would suggest filtering the sections with bad blocking by themselves (to avoid causing extra detail loss in other parts of the video) with a stronger settings for smoothd2, it's a process of trial and error.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Does this source normally look this bad?. That looks all kinds of horrible (and it looks like it was already put through a number of rounds of bad lossy compression)

[Dext3r]

Does this source normally look this bad?. That looks all kinds of horrible (and it looks like it was already put through a number of rounds of bad lossy compression)

I don't know, but its clearly distracting and I really need a fix for this, as its for an AMV that's due in less than a week now.

[mirkosp]

Does this source normally look this bad?. That looks all kinds of horrible (and it looks like it was already put through a number of rounds of bad lossy compression)

Yeah, it does seem like it could be a bootleg... I didn't recall the code geass' DVDs being this bad.

[Dext3r]

Does this source normally look this bad?. That looks all kinds of horrible (and it looks like it was already put through a number of rounds of bad lossy compression)

Yeah, it does seem like it could be a bootleg... I didn't recall the code geass' DVDs being this bad.

It definitely isn't, unless that's what I was sold at an anime convention.

Anyways, what about using a command like dfttest?

[Dext3r]

Nevermind, I just tried dfttest(sigma=35) on that footage with the girl with the green hair (IMO the worst offender out of the examples I gave) and it looks exactly the same.

What else can I try?

[mirkosp]

It definitely isn't, unless that's what I was sold at an anime convention.

I know I got sold a bootleg at a con... so unless you bought it at the official licensor's booth, it could still be a bootleg.

But anyway, instead of upscaling it like there was no tomorrow, you could just edit at a lower resolution.
Code Geass was released on Blu-ray disc, so if you really want to edit at 720p or 1080p you could get that, it'll look better to boot (and would also actually have some more detail).

[Dext3r]

It definitely isn't, unless that's what I was sold at an anime convention.

I know I got sold a bootleg at a con... so unless you bought it at the official licensor's booth, it could still be a bootleg.

But anyway, instead of upscaling it like there was no tomorrow, you could just edit at a lower resolution.
Code Geass was released on Blu-ray disc, so if you really want to edit at 720p or 1080p you could get that, it'll look better to boot (and would also actually have some more detail).

Wait what? I didn't upscale anything, I just fullscreened what I'm working with in premiere and took a screenshot.

I'm working with 848x480 footage.