u/Nausiated_

I have a situation where I am restoring analogue video that was transferred to Laserdisc poorly so there is field blending. I have tried every deinterlacing trick in the book with AVS and VS and I am having no luck. It's stubborn and cooked in there real bad.

I've been trying to find anything online but trying to Google this sort of thing gives me a old forum posts dating back 20 years where nobody solved the problem or websites trying to sell me AI upscalers that will absolutely not fix the problem.

Am I chasing a solution that does not currently exist or are search engines really that bad now?

If anyone can point me to a solution that'd be great. Even if it's some cost prohibitive solution like DRS Nova or something. I am going crazy not knowing if there is a definitive fix for this or not and how realistly in reach it might be.

Anyone who can shed insight on this would be great.

EDIT

I did a detailed analysis of the video to figure out exactly what's going on here. Here are the specifics:

The defect is field-domain temporal blending, not simple progressive-frame ghosting. The source is 29.97i/59.94-field NTSC with an underlying film/3:2 cadence, but individual fields contain weighted contributions from neighboring temporal states.

Analysis of separated fields shows that the blend coefficient is not fixed. Examples fit approximately:

70% current field + 30% adjacent temporal field
80% current + 20% adjacent
60% current + 40% adjacent

and there are occasional cases where the contaminating temporal state becomes dominant.

The two field parities can also have different blend strengths, so a woven frame may effectively contain something like:

Field A: 85% state X + 15% state Y
Field B: 65% state X + 35% state Y

rather than a uniform 50% Frame A + 50% Frame B blend.

The contamination appears to be primarily between temporally adjacent same-parity fields, which means the defect exists within the original field sequence before IVTC. Some fields remain essentially clean while others are strongly blended.

There is still a recognizable repeating NTSC film cadence underneath the damage, roughly consistent with a 10-field 3:2 cycle, but the temporal blending varies independently enough that normal TFM/TDecimate, sRestore, conventional deblend filters, etc. cannot reliably reconstruct the original fields.

Hard cuts are especially diagnostic: in some cases a single field immediately around the cut contains imagery from both completely different shots. The cross-shot contamination is brief — generally around one field, occasionally two — rather than behaving like a multi-frame dissolve.

So the defect is best described as something like:

clean 59.94-field sequence
       ↓
field-dependent temporal filtering / averaging
       ↓
some clean fields
some previous/current blends
some current/next blends
different coefficients by field/parity
occasional cross-shot contaminated fields

The main technical question is what historical video process would produce variable asymmetric temporal averaging at the individual-field level while retaining the underlying 3:2 cadence — e.g. frame synchronizer, standards/rate converter, temporal noise reduction, DVE, field-rate conversion, or some combination thereof.

So I had a package from Intelcom Dragonfly that is over a week late, I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue with the past week or if it's just me? I've been trying to get ahold of them to no avail.

So we don't miss the plot: Please don't come in the comments if you're going to generally gripe about hoe bad they are in general (We know!) offer advice (I know how to read, thanks), or talk about an instance that hasn't happened in the last week. None of that is helpful. I know the regular channels of communication to resolve the problem. I only want to know if anyone is having this problem in the past week so I can figure out if it's just my shipment or if they're screwing the pooch for everyone.

Looking for a known solution to target this app specifically. Especially for ipad and iphone devices.

I have tried isolating ips and domains (*.apple.com and *.icloud.com) but that works for a day or in the moment. The following day it doesn't work. Specifically using disturb instead of a flat out block. Want to correct behavior, not cause a crash out.

A full internet filter is too big a stick because Facetime is the only problem.

Would appreciate known solutions. Suggestions and theory are great and all, but I'd prefer hearing from people who had consistent success.

Thanks.

So I have been trying to use StaxRip to tackle compression artifacts in DVD soruce. I understand the principals (Deblock, Dehalo, etc) but understanding how AV and VS script and what the different values do are like a foreign language to me. My attempts at winging it either don't do enough or go too hard and obliterate details. I can't a middle ground and I'm honestly ripping my hair out trying to understand.

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I don't even fully understand what hard limitations exist and where to set my expectations. Is it possible to clean them out totally without a loss in detail or am I chasing a dragon here? I get there isn't a magic formula that's not going to work universally, but a starting point would be great.

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I've got three different sources that have different bitrates.

If it matters: it is traditional animation from a telecine souece transferred to DVD.

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A 2010s release on DVD5 that foolishly crammed 5+ episodes on a disc. The bitrate is *awful* Second source is early 2000s DVD9, 4 episodes on a disc. The last is another DVD9 source also produced in the 2010s, 7 episodes on a disc.

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Any advice people would have or known working settings would be great.