[HELP] Poor TV Broadcast VHS Upscale

[Miranda]

I need to upscale a VHS capture from an old 1983 TV broadcast, which has a strange moiré pattern due to poor TV reception. Any suggestions most welcome.

[Selur]

can't download the file,... (no permission)

[Miranda]

Try it now. Apologies.

[Selur]

Download worked now.

[Selur]

Interlaced content saved progressively without deinterlacing.

hmm, what I would try.

• vinverse2 to remove the combing artifacts.
  
• crop to remove the ugly borders
  
• Edefixer to fix a bit of the artifacts at the bottom
  
• BalanceBorders to lessen the coloring at the sides
  
• SpotLess with temporal radius 2 for the comets
  
• RemoveDirt for the artifacts <- this does most of the filtering and is the reason for most of the details loss
  

and then maybe BasicVSR++ or SCUNet or DGDenoise
script: https://pastebin.com/6sAL8ZbT
add the end one could add some grain (https://imgsli.com/MjUzODU2)

iirc. NeatVideo was good with removing such artifacts, so it might be worth a try too.

Cu Selur

Ps.: https://www.avartifactatlas.com/ might be interessting for general amusement

[Miranda]

The ProRes file is interlaced - perhaps AviDemux saved it as progressive? I will check.

[Selur]

The download is progressive.
When overwriting the can type each frame is duplicated,... so this isn't interlaced.