I read some posts on this site from LordSmurf and others really criticizing it but I've found some utility in the tool for certain applications. I hesitate to ask because I know the tool is not too popular among some people, especially AviSynth gurus, but do you have any opinion of Topaz's Video Enhance AI? My current plan is to clean up the source a bit, then upscale to 4K, then maybe add some mild sharpening. Can you tell me the script and plugins you've been using? Your clip does look pretty good, better than I've been able to manage with the testing I've done so far.

It looks so much better in motion now.Īre you sure it's an upscale though, as opposed to relatively poor true HD? As rough as some of the scenes look, this transfer has a lot more detail than upscaled Hong Kong films I'm used to. With some help from some people on the Doom9 forums I was able to fix this and restore a proper progressive transfer. They took a PAL source and field blended it, which resulted in terrible motion problems, ghosting, etc. I'm using the Dragon Dynasty Blu-ray which was encoded as 1080i. The source I'm working from is kinda bizarre to begin with. Do you find this to be an improvement? I'm also not generally a fan of denoising. Even when the upscaling is really well done it's obvious it's upscaled SD. I'm absolutely open to complicated scripts if they get the job done. I have some familiarity with AviSynth but I'm by no means an expert. I'm after the maximum quality possible regardless of render times. I also have a high-quality scan of 35mm film grain that I could add as an overlay in case the denoising ends up making everything look too smooth and un-film-like. My plan is to make the video look cleaner, then maybe apply a bit of mild sharpening and some color correction using a different source as a reference. I've heard that I could use AviSynth to achieve better results but I'm not sure which plugins and settings would be the most appropriate. I've been playing around with Neat Video but I worry that it's removing too much detail. I'd like to clean that up the best I can.

The source I'm using is fairly noisy and the grain has a fairly unnatural look to it. I'm working on a restoration of John Woo's The Killer and I could use some advice.

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