DoomBot said:
i wonder what a grain plate applied to this would look like?
No. Just, no.
@ _,,,^..^,,,_ (I will hereafter refer to you as 'Cat'.) I still like the plain old analoclean.
I'm afraid sharpening will only enhance the ghosting and removing the ghosting has negative effects on the detail.
I've never had good success with it, a dehalo filter might work on the ghosting though at the expense of sharpness.
I also agree with Chewtobacca. If you could turn down the analoclean a bit, that might be good.
For some of these tests, screenshots from the avisynth script is fine for comparison. You really don't have to re-encode a clip each time.
Finally, I do have concerns that there appears to be dot crawl that should be filtered before the resize. You can see it in Lumiere's arms/small candles below. (Some suggestions on how can be found here: http://www.aquilinestudios.org/avsfilters/dotcrawl.html)
