QTGMC output is blurred?

[Major17Wood]

I'm noticing that deinterlacing is causing loss of sharpness in my captures.

Left side of screenshot is software yadif deinterlace in VLC, right is QTGMC deinterlaced

The jaggies on the date and time numbers have been smoothed. I do not like this. How can I stop QTGMC from smoothing the image?

My only QTGMC setting is

QTGMC(Preset="Slow")

Is there a way for me to upload a better quality screenshot? The image uploaded here is being super compressed for some reason and kinda making it hard to see what I'm talking about. If you look at the "2's" you may be able to see it. On the left, the "2" has a pixelly staircase look, on the right its been totally smoothed flat into a diagonal line.

[lordsmurf]

Do not use slow. Use faster.
Slow has excess filtering that blurs. That's the difference.

[Major17Wood]

It's still smoothing it out it seems.

Heres the script I'm using:

AviSource("C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\test.avi")
AssumeTFF()
QTGMC(Preset="faster")
Crop(4, 0, -4, -8)
LanczosResize(1440, 1080)

[Hushpower]

Quote:

The image uploaded here is being super compressed for some reason and kinda making it hard to see what I'm talking about.

We're trying to convince the Lordsmurf to increase the allowable postable image size!

[lollo2]

QTGMC reduces jagged shapes created by deinterlacing procedures. This is one of its major benefits, a side effect is the one you experimented on a "real" jagged shape.

QTGMC can rarely be used with its defaults parameters, whatever preset you choose (BTW "fast" in only recommended for speed reason, not for optimal results).

Try to use QTGMC's lossless and sourcematch features:

QTGMC(Lossless=2, SourceMatch=3, ...)

For a "natural" look I sometimes use the following set, but you have to experiment with your own material:

QTGMC(preset="slow", matchpreset="slow", matchpreset2="slow", sourcematch=3, tr1=2, tr2=1, NoiseTR=2, sharpness=0.1)

[lordsmurf]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hushpower

We're trying to convince the Lordsmurf to increase the allowable postable image size!

No convincing necessary. It's part of a larger forum upgrade. That monster project is just taking time. Must hire some devs for key pieces, so that's the bottleneck. And people think I'm slow sometimes!