Upscaling for uploading to Youtube?

[mike919]

This has probably talked about here, but I am new to this forum. So new post I guess.

I want to have a good quality 1080p 60fps for uploading to YouTube. (VHS Footage)

HOWEVER.

The max I upscale to is 960x720. Anything after that looks horrendous. Any good tips on upscaling.
Hybrid, questionable, StaxRip, Flat-out does not work.

I do have per say questionable workflow for this forum, but its all I can afford at the moment.

Settings:
Yadif 2x (deinterlace)
Resize: 960x720

[lordsmurf]

Quality of source matters, that's where buying quality gear matters.

For software, freeware fine.
Use QTGMC, not a Yadif.
You can resize to 1440x1080 in stages, and using various resize methods. I know selur has made some strides to add new resize methods to Hybrid in the past year or so.

[Selur]

Share a sample of your source content and folks can suggest stuff, there is no simple use 'this' and you will get a 'good quality 1080p 60fps for uploading to YouTube' from VHS footage,...
(also some info about the system you use to do this might help with the suggestions,..)

[mike919]

I had to compress it a little bit in order to avoid lossless avi big file uploads.

[Selur]

Quote:

I had to compress it ...

bad idea, this way you added another layer of compression artifacts,...
Better use a shorter unprocessed (lossless compressed) sample.
That said, assuming the clip is representative of your source, cleaning it should not be hard, since the source seems not to have any natural details, so throwing normally way too heavy filtering at it should be no problem.
(like using some filters one would normally only use for cartoon/anime content)

[Selur]

script used to create attached example: https://pastebin.com/gpW1Sn2B
I used: RemoveDirtMC for denoising, BasicVSR++ for heavy cleaning and edge enhancement, LumaSharpening for additional edge enhancemen and NNEDI3+Spline64 for resizing + Letterboxing to get to 1920x1080.
(there are still things that could be improved,..)

Cu Selur

[mike919]

That looks very good. I will use this script in further encodes.

[mike919]

So I used all the options you used going off the script you gave me and it just shows me a solid color green screen?

[Selur]

Works fine here.
try enabling the options one by one to figure out which is causing the problem
Sounds a bit like a driver issue.

[mike919]

I am relatively new to AviSynth/VapourSynth. I will try again

[mike919]

I am gonna be downright honest, I have no idea what codec to use to achieve the quality you did, I don't know where some filters are, I am so confused. I do have basic understanding of Hybrid just not that much.

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Edit: Included is a file I am trying to fix up. It is directly from the lossless recording

[Selur]

you might want to redo that capturing in a more proper way. lordsmurf and others here, can probably give some pointers for that.
atm. there is not that much you can do, attached to suggestions.

Cu Selur

[mike919]

RemoveDirtMC BasicVSR++ LumaSharpening NNEDI3+Spline64

Alright I made some progress. I found RemoveDirtMC, LumaSharpening, NNEDI3 and Spline

But how do I install BasicVSR++? I have tried the Python script but it didn't show up. Any suggestions?

[Selur]

BasicVSR++ requires the torch-addon which requires a modern NVIDIA card, but unlike the intro the last snipped you shared will not really benefit from it, since it would add too much smoothing and denoising.
(btw. NeatVideo might also be a good fit for your source)

Cu Selur

[mike919]

Thanks

Last question,

NeatVideo cost money, does the demo do the job?
Also, does it require a NVIDIA card?
And do I have to use VirtualDub or can I add it to plugins in Hybrid

[Selur]

Hybrid doesn't support any payware, so you probably will have to use VirtualDub.
The demo should be fine.

Like I wrote: I would recommend recapturing, since the better the source material, the better the end result that can be achieved.

Cu Selur

Ps.: going to bed now