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Old 16th May 2020, 15:45   #209  |  Link
poisondeathray
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Originally Posted by zapp7 View Post
I'm experimenting with different denoisers for the first season of DS9. I have seen other people advocating for QTGMC as a denoiser run in progressive mode (InputType=1). Is QTGMC run in this fashion still destructive to the resolution of the footage?

Code:
QTGMC(InputType=1, Preset="Medium", EzDenoise=0.1)
Yes it's destructive

It might be appropriate for the 2-3% problem sections, but you will destroy details in >90% of the other scenes


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Originally Posted by zapp7 View Post
I've tested a few filters so far... MCDegrainSharp, TemporalDegrain2, QTGMC, but none really give me good results. One issue is that some will look good for the intro but not for film sections with characters.
Exactly. You degrade the 90-95%. No amount of neural net processing can return the lost details
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