I need some help converting some frame-blended pal videos to their original 24fps framerate. Most of the links I found are broken and a lot of information is now outdated.
Are there any reliable avisynth scripts that will remove blended frames and restore the video to it's original framerate properly? I'm looking more for quality over speed. I could do this manually, but I don't want to go down that road if there is a better alternative.
SRestore: http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Srestore
The quality of your output will be dependent on the quality of the deinterlacer you use before it.
Of course slower isn't always better. I've found some of the more top end ones to work worse on animation. You'll need to do a little trial and error there, but Srestore is about the only game in town.
Dr. M
I agree with Doctor M.
Space Kaijuu said:Are there any reliable avisynth scripts that will remove blended frames and restore the video to it's original framerate properly?
The plugins in question restore the original frame-rate in a "proper" way, but the blending can rarely if ever be removed perfectly. If fields, rather than just certain frames, show blends, perfection is impossible.
If I want a high-quality result, I use QTGMC() in concert with SRestore. (The former has a number of speed presets; the slower ones are glacially slow.) But you will find that some frames are handled better (and some worse) if you use a different deinterlacer e.g. a faster, lower-quality one such as Yadif. And sometimes older plugins, such as MRestore and Restore24, might handle certain frames better too.
For short clips, it is possible to apply different plugins and settings and weave back and forth between them, but this is not practical when dealing with longer videos. These days, I usually try a few different solutions, play with the settings, pick whatever looks best, and live with what it gives me. This sort of thing is not worth spending a great deal of time on.