[HELP] Help With Cleaning Up Video

[Selur]

Here are some observations about the source:

• scan type is wrong, it's not ttf but should be overwritten to telecine
  -> enable 'Filtering->(De)Interlace/Telecine->Deinterlace/Telecine Settings->Overwrite input scan type' and set it to 'telecine'.
  Hybrid will then automatically switch to TIVTC,
  
• that content is horribly over compressed, it's basicall a collection of compression artifacts. This is not going to be easy (or at least fast)
  

I have tried various combinations and not really getting any better version with various attempts.

It would have been nice to know what you tried.

Here some things I tried:

mClean + CAS looks nice to me.


Due to the tons of artifacts I tried some machine learning filters. (only supported on Windows with torchAddon which requires an NVIDIA card with lots of RAM)
BasicVSR++ -> cleans the artifacts nicely, but you loose a lot.



DPIR (deblock) -> looks better to me, but some artifacts are still there

Here's what mClean + DPIR (deblock) + CAS looks like:


But the ghosting/blending:

is still there and I don't see a way to get rid of it.

Is it worth it?
Hmmm,...
I would say if I would archive it for myself I would probably stick with mClean+CAS (+ may be some degrain or compressibility) and live with the ghosting.
If was something important I would filter this scene by scene, but I don't see a way to get rid of the ghosting.

Cu Selur