[HELP] New to Hybrid, trying to figure some things out...

[Selur]

CAS and MCTemporalDenoise are still able to generate previews for me, but I am very briefly seeing the script failed pop-up with this message before the preview window comes up:

2025-05-18 10:16:04.041
VapourSynth plugins manager: Failed to load vapoursynth library!
Please set up the library search paths in settings.
2025-05-18 10:16:05.043
Script was successfully evaluated. Output video info:
Frames: 10864 | Time: 0:03:01.248 | Size: 720x480 | FPS: 60000/1001 = 59.9401 | Format: YUV420P8

can't reproduce that.

Updated:
https://github.com/Selur/VapoursynthScri.../dehalo.py
and
https://github.com/Selur/VapoursynthScri...degrain.py
and
https://github.com/Selur/VapoursynthScri...esample.py

Let me know whether replacing those fixes the dehalo&mldegrain problems for you.

I would use something like:

# Deinterlacing using QTGMC
clip = qtgmc.QTGMC(Input=clip, Preset="Fast", TFF=True, opencl=True) # new fps: 59.94
# Making sure content is preceived as frame based
clip = core.std.SetFrameProps(clip=clip, _FieldBased=vs.FIELD_PROGRESSIVE) # progressive
# stabilizing using Stab
clip = stabilize.Stab(clp=clip,range=2,mirror=0)
clip = core.std.Crop(clip=clip, left=10, right=8, top=2, bottom=6)# cropping to 702x472
# removing grain using SMDegrain
clip = smdegrain.SMDegrain(input=clip, contrasharp=10, interlaced=False, opencl=True, device=-1)

as a general start and then add additional filtering on the evening scenes.

Cu Selur

Ps.: Those thick lines are dark halos.