g-force said:
Dude, that looks so much better! I think it's still a little waxy, as in too denoised. I wonder if you could back off the denoising a bit and gain more processing speed.
The sharpness looks good!
Thanks, I'm happy you appreciate my work!
I must confess that I like this last "less is more" script way more than the long script I used before. To me, if not perfect, it's almost perfect - and, because "perfection is not of this world", I could be happy anyway!
I know it's a little waxy as you wrote... I tried also MCTemporalDenoise(settings="low) (this is the default setting) but the result was still too noised; I like also the settings="high", but the processing time was incredibly higher, and the result, if carefully inspected, too waxy, so...
Maybe the script I tested is the "right" compromise - and, I repeat, I tested A LOT of filters in a year of testing, and I prefer to re-release soon the SW:ANH [OUT ruLes] with improved audio (and in sync french soundtrack) plus improved video, than waiting and testing for weeks (or months) to achieve a visual result only slightly better than the actual one: avisynth is WONDERFUL, but with so many filters, plugins, scripts, the possibilities are unlimited, but my time unfortunately is not! (°°,)
CapableMetal said:
If there's rainbowing, then I'd give it a try. I've had limited/poor results using some of these filters in the past, and I believe if your comb filter is doing a good job then you should have minimal rainbowing already.
I used the 925 S-Video because, in my comparison tests, its comb filter resulted better than my capture card. I didn't noticed rainbowing, but you know, "four eyes are better than two"... and six are better than four etc.
So, if anyone else would like to download the OUT ruLes test clip, and let me know its problems, it will be really helpful!
With laserdiscs, after median/averaging captures, I simply use DeGrainMedian for noise reduction (and it does a nice job for the most part), Msharpen used subtly to bring back some small details, if I upscale then a combination of nnedi3_rpow2 and a Spline64 or 36 resize, depending on my needs. If there is visible colour banding then a dithering filter (like GradFun3) can help.
Today was "capture day #2"... hard work... I finished to capture all the three editions, and carefully aligned them both temporally and spatially, and then medianed... now I'm testing the script I tested yesterday on OUT
here you are the usual clip at SENDSPACE (70MB)
download it, and tell me what do you think.
I'm still testing a basic color correction, as the laserdisc picture is still pinkish - but not as GKar... - here few examples:
Not perfect, but not too bad... (^^,)
Next days I will test the filters you suggested - if you want to help me, could you please post an example script?
I occasionally add and remove filters as needed, but those tend to do a nice enough job. Using an MT version of AviSynth helps a lot. If you have a dual core CPU then I'd try it, it should greatly increase your render speed and give that idle core something to do ;)
I use avisynthMT too - but some filters still does not improve speed with it...
Hope to release the ANH [SET ruLes] .m2ts file before the end of this month!