Conversion deblending/chroma deblending using reference source - unstable test filter

Hi all, I've written a filter to restore video with blended fields/frames using a reference source - in my case, I have an SD source at native 25p and an HD source of the same video which was converted to 60i. srestore did a near-perfect job; however, I wasn't happy that srestore doesn't give consistent results when seeking, nor that I still had residual chroma blends. So I wrote a couple of very quick filters, one to pick out the unblended frames from the (bobbed) HD video to match the SD video, and another (possibly the more useful) to undo any residual chroma blending. Here's the download: (caution: potentially highly unstable!) And here's a very rough overview: Code:

Thankyou for the source. :)

I got your PM, but have currently mislaid my scripts. But from what you've now posted, I think I can see what you've missed - blended needs to be bobbed, not just blended_compare. I used QTGMC by itself to write a losslessly-compressed bobbed version, then used that as my input for the matching stage. You should also ensure that your two compares line up as closely as possible, spatially (as well as temporally), otherwise you'll end up getting the wrong frames on slow pans. Use a frame from the start of a shot and modify bicubicresize parameters to shift.

Will try that ASAP. Thank you!

Unfortunatly, after having spent a few hours trying, I gave up, couldn't get it to work. However, like you said in the other thread, srestore works pretty well, it's just scene changes that are a gamble. I used Torchwood HD-DVD for this example, but Planet Special is pretty much the same: Now, with the Planet of the Dead special, I could go through in Premiere Pro and substitute the frames with the clean frames from the bobbed file, but that's a lot of work, and I'd really like to fix my Torchwood HD-DVDs as well, so... I've been thinking about modifying srestore to use an override file, but I don't know how. Do you have any ideas how to fix this?