Fixing grain and deinterlacing? (Code Geass)

[mirkosp]

In order to fullscreen, you are effectively resizing the footage to fit that screen. That's upscaling, if just for playback purposes and not in-source. Inflating the resolution is just going to make more obvious issues that can be less visible at a lower resolution. Ideally, if you're ok with that, you could downscale your footage to something like 768x432 or 704x396; it's pretty sad to do that in 2013, but when you downscale, you're going to blur and hide some of the artefacts, so it's an easy way out, though it won't suffice on its own. Assuming you can get the worst of it gone with smoothd2 and the rest with the downscale, it should looks somewhat decent even if small.

[BasharOfTheAges]

I just fullscreened what I'm working with in premiere and took a screenshot.

lol wut?

You're confusing the issue by using a preview codec + forced upscale. Show us your filtered source before you put it in premiere at the normal resolution it's at.

[Dext3r]

In order to fullscreen, you are effectively resizing the footage to fit that screen. That's upscaling, if just for playback purposes and not in-source. Inflating the resolution is just going to make more obvious issues that can be less visible at a lower resolution. Ideally, if you're ok with that, you could downscale your footage to something like 768x432 or 704x396; it's pretty sad to do that in 2013, but when you downscale, you're going to blur and hide some of the artefacts, so it's an easy way out, though it won't suffice on its own. Assuming you can get the worst of it gone with smoothd2 and the rest with the downscale, it should looks somewhat decent even if small.

I just fullscreened what I'm working with in premiere and took a screenshot.

lol wut?

You're confusing the issue by using a preview codec + forced upscale. Show us your filtered source before you put it in premiere at the normal resolution it's at.

My fault, I didn't realize that was using a different codec and screwing everything up.

I had a long conversation with L33twad, and actually tried exporting and discovered it was something in Premiere's codec and apparently not at all in the original source (to my knowledge).

I'm now using a version of mvtools' mdegrain (which is incredibly slow and going to take days to convert all the footage).