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[HELP] Suggestions requested to restore and clean up BLACK SUNDAY (1960) LD Transfer
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I recorded both sides of my LaserDisc copy of Bava’s Black Sunday with AmaRecTV in lossless using my IOData GV-USB2 capture device, which has an excellent comb filter. After concatenating the two .avi files with avidemux, I then performed an inverse telecine in Hybrid and the video looks so much better than the raw capture. Still, the source used for the transfer is struck from a dated master which you can see from the screen captures I’ve appended.
 
There is mild to moderate rainbowing throughout the presentation and I would love to use any of the DeRainbow filters in VapourSynth to eliminate the issue. You’ll see some of it on the left side of the man’s top hat in Screenshot #3, along the long rifle in #4, and along the ultra-thin branches in #6. I wonder which of the five filters would possibly work best?
 
In Screenshot #s 1 and 2, there appear to be some hairs emanating from the film’s camera gate.
 
In addition, a cigarette burn pops up along the right side of the shot in #5 to signal a cue change in the reel. Of the three Artifacts filters, would Despot, KillerSpots, or SpotLess be effective in expunging it?
 
There are general age-related artifacts such as speckles, dirt, and other debris that are occasionally sprinkled throughout the image as you can see in frame grab #s 7 (amongst the clouds) and 8. Should I try mClean, RemoveDirt, or RemoveDirtMC? I don’t want to scrub away too much grain and detail to the extent that I’d deface the image so seeking filter(s) that can perform moderate cleanup.
 
If I employ any of these filters, what order should I prioritize them in the workflow? When I first started using Hybrid, I remember seeing an itemized list of tasks to be executed for a job, but don’t remember where that was. Which tab, please? I’d like to see the order before clicking on the icon with the workman and his shovel.
 
Also, would it be best if I first run these filters and then carry out TIVTC later?

My final step will be to resize/upscale from captured resolution of 720x480 to 1280x720 using NNEDI3.
My final step will be to resize/upscale from captured resolution of 720x480 to 1280x720 using NNEDI3

Last three screen captures I made from the LD transfer.


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Can't really suggest anything based on screenshots, since they lack the temporal component of the video.
Upload a sample of your video to something a fileHoster like GoogleDrive, MediaFire, or similar (not YouTube or such where file get reencoded) and share a link.

As a start, the default order of filters is fine, depending on the strength and nature of the noise&co filtering the fields before ivtc or deinterlacing can help.
You are probably looking for Filtering->Vapoursynth->Misc->Filter Order/Queue regarding changing the order of filters. Additionally, looking at the Vapoursynth Script View shows also the used filters and script generated.

Cu Selur

Ps.: I usually try to avoid RemoveDirt(MC) and prefer SpotLess, Despot, MCTemporalDenoise or SMDegrain, but that all depend a lot on the state of the video,...
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Dev versions are in the 'experimental'-folder of my GoogleDrive, which is linked on the download page.
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this movie has 4K version,  56.44GB

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Ah, yes! I will be comparing the UHD with the LD and a couple BD editions.

Oh, thank you very much for all that feedback, Selur! I will definitely incorporate your preferred filters for my future projects. And thanks for specifying the location for the order of tasks in a typical job.

Here are a half-dozen clips. Each is less than a minute and some are very short:

BLACK SUNDAY LaserDisc Video Clips

If you feel you need more footage to advise me of your recommendations, please let me know. I made separate, full recordings of Sides One and Two.

After re-examining some of them, I'm thinking I also could apply DeScratch, too?

I mistyped what I am going to uprez the finished file to. I meant 960x720 since this is a 1.33:1 presentation of the OAR 1.66:1.

I have been doing 1280x720 upscales in Hybrid for my anamorphic widescreen DVDs (after inverse telecining them), so that's why I initially wrote that resolution.
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