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[Released] JAWS 2 - Extended Integral Edition
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(2020-03-20, 01:28 AM)TomArrow Wrote: That's incredible. Amazing cleanup! Wouldn't have thought that possible. Hope you'll share some of your techniques some day.

By the way, one thing you could try for the upscales is the reduce resolution going into the upscale to the "native" resolution. For example if the VHS capture is in 720*something, it might help to reduce it to the native VHS resolution of I think ... ehm ... best google it but I think it was 300- to 400-ish. And then go with that reduced version into the upscaler. I haven't tried the Video Enhance one yet, but I tried this with Gigapixel and sometimes had great improvements in the upscaling. I think it's because they train it on downscaled images, so it doesn't really know how to deal with footage that is blurry to begin with.

Thank you TomArrow!

And for the downscales - I did exactly that.  Tried multiple downsized versions until I hit upon a sweet spot.  Technically VHS is around 352x480i depending on many factors, but squeezing it to that and thinner didn't help.  Appears it needs to be roughly in the right aspect ratio but sized down.  I guess my rule of thumb is keep downsizing until it looks like it has HD sharpness to it.  Eventually its just right and the program latches onto it.  Sadly, some sources are too fargone for the current tech.
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Agree with Tom, amazing cleanup! Ok
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(2020-03-20, 01:11 AM)RidgeShark Wrote: Wanted to show you guys a comparison with the AI Enlargement. First I want to temper expectations for what this tech can currently do - medium to closeup shots of people can benefit greatly - especially if the image takes up the full 480i image. Wide shots and 480i Letterboxed sources still benefit, but the neural network enlarger has less to work with.  These came out looking unnatural, so I did some post-processing to get it looking about right.

https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/853
https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/854


The close up looks very great but I wonder how did you get more image details minimally in the left side?
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(2020-04-03, 09:22 PM)DeafYakuza Wrote:
(2020-03-20, 01:11 AM)RidgeShark Wrote: Wanted to show you guys a comparison with the AI Enlargement. First I want to temper expectations for what this tech can currently do - medium to closeup shots of people can benefit greatly - especially if the image takes up the full 480i image. Wide shots and 480i Letterboxed sources still benefit, but the neural network enlarger has less to work with.  These came out looking unnatural, so I did some post-processing to get it looking about right.

https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/853
https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/854


The close up looks very great but I wonder how did you get more image details minimally in the left side?

I went to the trouble to stitch on that extra bit of detail from the lower quality source.
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#25
Great job! Who is doing exactly who is having to go to the trouble to stitch that.
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https://ifdb.fanedit.org/jaws-2-extended...l-edition/
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Thank you all for the support! To my amazement, this edit just won fanedit.org’s Favorite Edit of the Month for June https://www.fanedit.org/ridgeshark-wins-...020-feotm/
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I got this off the fanedit website many thanks for this and Army Of Darkness Primitive Screwhead Edition
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#29
Can I have a link to this please RidgeShark? And also Can u give me a tutorial on what exactly you did using the upscaler topaz
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