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RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Perseverant - 24.01.2025
Ahhhhhh. I thought everything above the name "MCTemporalDenoise" would pertain to the previous selection (KNLMeansCL). Thank you.
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Perseverant - 26.01.2025
Selur,
I'm really impressed by the combination of MCTemporalDenoise and BasicVSR++. Check out the before/after:
https://imgsli.com/MzQyMDgw
(I removed despot because it was damaging the image more than helping)
The ability of BasicVSR++ to faithfully enhance detail without altering the original look of the animation is very impressive. I've done plenty of experimentation with upscaling animated video and while BasicVSR++ isn't upscaling things in this case, the improvement in detail/quality is among the best I've ever seen. I tried to research BasicVSR++ and didn't find much info out there.
Questions:
1) Do you have any tips on when it could be recommended/not recommended to use BasicVSR++?
2) Is it possible to upscale in Hybrid using BasicVSR++ or is exclusively used for restoration?
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Selur - 26.01.2025
Quote:1) Do you have any tips on when it could be recommended/not recommended to use BasicVSR++?Using BasicVSR++ under 'Others' (sometimes masked, just for the chroma or just on some scenes) is mainly meant for restoration, the lower the source resolution the stronger the smoothing&co effects are (so sometimes it makes sense to upscale before applying BasicVSR++).
For cartoons with low details, I usually at least try the effects of BasicVSR++. It does strong cleaning and line enhancement there.
I would not use BasicVSR++ on stuff that is already high quality or on content where I want to preserve small details (at least not unmasked).
Quote:Is it possible to upscale in Hybrid using BasicVSR++ or is exclusively used for restoration?BasicVSR++ under 'Frame->Resizers' is meant for upscaling, here unlike with the restoration a 'high' quality source should be used. BasicVSR++ here isn't meant to clean the source.
Cu Selur
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Perseverant - 27.01.2025
(26.01.2025, 10:16)Selur Wrote: BasicVSR++ under 'Frame->Resizers' is meant for upscaling, here unlike with the restoration a 'high' quality source should be used. BasicVSR++ here isn't meant to clean the source.
Thank you.
Is there any documentation explaining which use-cases the various models are best suited for? (REDS, Vimeo-90K (BI), Vimeo-90K (BD), NTIRE 2021).
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Selur - 27.01.2025
Not that I know of.
Cu Selur
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Perseverant - 07.02.2025
Another Quick Q: Is the normal workflow for resizing with BasicVSR++ that you set the resolution in the Crop/Resize tab, and that BasicVSR++ will override whatever the selected resize method is (e.g. 10 - bicubic spline)?
If not, can you tell me where I should be putting the resolution, when upscaling with BasicVSR++?
RE: Advice on settings for cleaning up highly compressed video - Selur - 07.02.2025
Yes, that is the correct and intended way.
Crop/Resize does the general setting. (The resizers there are available in FFmpeg, MPlayer, Avisynth, Vapoursynth).
"Vapoursynth/Avisynth->Frame->Resize->Resizer" overwrites the resizer selection and offers more settings for the resizer.
Cu Selur