This is really interesting and entertaining. I recently acquired every episode of Jonny Quest for my Dad (26 episodes) and they look pretty good on his 4k tv. I'm thinking about AI upscaling the episodes and also converting them to 60fps for him. Might be a nice surprise for, since he watches those episodes quite often. Thanks again for the video, and I hope to see more like this in the future.
You might get better results from a more animation-specific model. I don’t know if Topaz has one, but the ESRGAN architecture has a variety of them, though processing times tend to be much longer.
I just made a really good upscale of a 90's anime, using the r-esrgan 4x+ anime6B upscaler. The biggest pain was that I too was also using a DVD source VOB which has artifacting like interlacing and film grain, so I first had to convert the original vob file into a lossless mkv myself, de-interlaced and removed as much film grain as I could. Then I extracted all the frames from the mkv file and batch upscaled them all, then recompiled it as an mkv. Unfortunately, the video is a bit obscure so any sources I saw online for the tv show were of abysmal quality so that was a no-go. Any form of banding and blocking artifacts from compression is an absolute no go with upscalers, the results are horrendous.
In general you do not want edge enhancement. Edge enhancement will add things that are not part of the original image and a lot of times it is done poorly or it adds edges two things that do not need edges added. These extra "enhancements"can ruin the image. Especially things that don't need edge enhancing like subtle cloud variations or smoke, etc. This is also the same reason why you should always turn off and disabled these supposed image enhancement features on your TV's as well. Maybe if you watch lots of old content that's not done well maybe this will provide a slightly better improvement but with most things shot digitally and dunnright these days most of these edge enhancement motion smoothing features wool more often hurt image quality than help it. In general you want to have as close to the original intended image as possible. Try to focus on getting the best quality version of the content you are watching. Order softer images might benefit from some clarity and Ed enhancing but be cautious you don't overdo that because it can hurt image quality as much as it helps.
@@Darkuni also play with sliding the deblur into antialiasing (results on this one depend really so try sliding to either side) and giving a little dehalo.
Good video. I wish I could upscale cartoons and other non animated movies then upload them to RUclips without copyright issues. It would be nice to keep upscale versions of movies online (archive)
I bought a converted to DVD copy online of a made for TV movie that only came on VHS. But the quality wasn't changed. Is it possible to take that already converted to DVD copy and remaster it to a more clearer higher quality?
@@HondaSolo2001 depends on the quality of the tape I would imagine. If the source that you got the DVD from had a better quality tape better quality player better capture hardware and software? You may not be able to do better than they did and you'll end up starting out with an inferior rip from the tape versus somebody who had the equipment to do so as best as humanly possible based on the conditions.
Wish I have the time and money to do stuff like this. I would love to upscale some of my DVDs like some Nickelodeon shows (SpongeBob, Catdog, Rugrats, All Grown Up, Hey Arnold and others), Proud Family, Air Gear, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, Encino Man and The Wild Thornberrys Movie (Oddly enough they put the Rugrats Movie Trilogy on Blu-Ray which contains the Thornberrys crossover movie, Rugrats Go Wild but they didn't put the main Wild Thornberrys Movie).
Well this stuff should start getting cheaper is the technology grows more and there's more competition. I've been using it a lot to upscale music videos from the 80s. God knows the people that own these things aren't going to do it.
Why do the remastered file gets larger than source, i understand the upscaled version is transcoded but is there a way to keep the file size from not getting too large? i.e .mp4
I'm not sure I understand the question. If you're moving a video source from 480i or 480p to 1080i or 1080p, wouldn't you expect the file size to increase? This was using mp4. I suppose if you wanted to use h265 you could probably gain more compression but you'd lose compatibility of playback on certain devices.
@@Darkuni I understand the first principles and know that transcoding / upscaling from low res to hi res will increase fize size, I have a couple 1080p videos in 70-80mb max. This tool takes a 30MB 720 × 480 converts to 1080p increases to 250MB. what i'm i missing?
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@@craposoup684 because the goal is to help you achieve the best quality, not the file size so it's always set the bitrate at the highest. If you need smaller file size but still keep the quality, you need another tool for that, note that this also takes as much time as upscale, because obviously who doesn't want both high quality and small file size at the same time, so the price to pay is time. There are many tools that can do this but I recommend Handbrake. So all you need to do is upscale first with Topaz, then optimize the size with Handbrake. It will take a lot of time but the results are worth it. I have over hundreds episode of Tom and Jerry 720p with 30 40mb each right now and I am happy with it because Warner Bros never release the golden collection volume 2 so I need to do it my self 😂
@ Thanks for the feedback! I was able to figure out the issue, it turns out the 70-80MB files were highly compressed, the average size of lossless DVD vob is 200MB and larger, hence upscaling and encoding with H265 at 2k results in almost the same file size e.g. 215MB which is not bad. I'm not a fan of Handbrake, poor video quality even at high settings. Topaz Artemis gives the best results compared to other upscalers out there. Cheers!
Does it handle the latest 4k UHD? I haven't seen a "free" version of any ripping software that meets my needs. For a simple DVD, perhaps it would do the deed. But people ask me what I'm using ...
DVD Shrink is another great app that extracts and removes protection from DVDs and it's totally free!
This is really interesting and entertaining. I recently acquired every episode of Jonny Quest for my Dad (26 episodes) and they look pretty good on his 4k tv. I'm thinking about AI upscaling the episodes and also converting them to 60fps for him. Might be a nice surprise for, since he watches those episodes quite often. Thanks again for the video, and I hope to see more like this in the future.
I'm really interested to know how that project goes.
You might get better results from a more animation-specific model. I don’t know if Topaz has one, but the ESRGAN architecture has a variety of them, though processing times tend to be much longer.
I appreciate the feedback. Was really just fooling around. There is a "CG" based model I could try ... see if that works better...
@@Darkuni I think that's actually designed more for computer graphics, not hand drawn animation, but you can certainly try it.
@TC-mk1tc You know I haven't ... So many tools out there now ... might be time for another look ...
Good video, i think the key was deinterlacing separately from AI Video Enhance.
It’s possible the deinterlacing filter is more designed for video with a full 60 fields per second rather than telecine footage.
I just made a really good upscale of a 90's anime, using the r-esrgan 4x+ anime6B upscaler. The biggest pain was that I too was also using a DVD source VOB which has artifacting like interlacing and film grain, so I first had to convert the original vob file into a lossless mkv myself, de-interlaced and removed as much film grain as I could. Then I extracted all the frames from the mkv file and batch upscaled them all, then recompiled it as an mkv. Unfortunately, the video is a bit obscure so any sources I saw online for the tv show were of abysmal quality so that was a no-go. Any form of banding and blocking artifacts from compression is an absolute no go with upscalers, the results are horrendous.
It isn't super easy ... Especially with the lack of physical media...
In general you do not want edge enhancement. Edge enhancement will add things that are not part of the original image and a lot of times it is done poorly or it adds edges two things that do not need edges added. These extra "enhancements"can ruin the image. Especially things that don't need edge enhancing like subtle cloud variations or smoke, etc. This is also the same reason why you should always turn off and disabled these supposed image enhancement features on your TV's as well. Maybe if you watch lots of old content that's not done well maybe this will provide a slightly better improvement but with most things shot digitally and dunnright these days most of these edge enhancement motion smoothing features wool more often hurt image quality than help it.
In general you want to have as close to the original intended image as possible. Try to focus on getting the best quality version of the content you are watching.
Order softer images might benefit from some clarity and Ed enhancing but be cautious you don't overdo that because it can hurt image quality as much as it helps.
I appreciate the long explanation and tips!
I’m ready to rip the entirety of Adventure Time! The dvds look super pixelated even on a 1080p tv
God speed!
If you crank revert compression, sharpen, and deblur on proteus you can get better results than artemis.
I will check that out!
@@Darkuni also play with sliding the deblur into antialiasing (results on this one depend really so try sliding to either side) and giving a little dehalo.
Good video. I wish I could upscale cartoons and other non animated movies then upload them to RUclips without copyright issues. It would be nice to keep upscale versions of movies online (archive)
Set up your own Plex server?
Excellent!
Anyone know a ai program that avoids grain reduction so sd cartoons don’t look like watercolors etc. or waxy in sd live action shows.
I would like to know this as well.
TY for the video. You should put a flashing lights warning in the title though
Really?
I bought a converted to DVD copy online of a made for TV movie that only came on VHS. But the quality wasn't changed. Is it possible to take that already converted to DVD copy and remaster it to a more clearer higher quality?
I mean, ANY video source is possible ... even if it has gone through other stuff before. VHS rips may be rough, but why not try it out?
@@Darkuni would it be easier to start out with the original VHS movie?
@@HondaSolo2001 depends on the quality of the tape I would imagine. If the source that you got the DVD from had a better quality tape better quality player better capture hardware and software? You may not be able to do better than they did and you'll end up starting out with an inferior rip from the tape versus somebody who had the equipment to do so as best as humanly possible based on the conditions.
Can you please give us suggestions on some De-Interlacing software?
I'm told StaxRip is good. I just use this: www.dvdfab.cn/toolkit.htm
Some crazy slow person said shows can't be upscaled unless a person has the masters and that they can't better look then the dvd...
Great Video. Thank you.
I may be reviewing another upscaler that is considerably cheaper. We'll see if the vendor comes through :D
Wish I have the time and money to do stuff like this. I would love to upscale some of my DVDs like some Nickelodeon shows (SpongeBob, Catdog, Rugrats, All Grown Up, Hey Arnold and others), Proud Family, Air Gear, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, Encino Man and The Wild Thornberrys Movie (Oddly enough they put the Rugrats Movie Trilogy on Blu-Ray which contains the Thornberrys crossover movie, Rugrats Go Wild but they didn't put the main Wild Thornberrys Movie).
Well this stuff should start getting cheaper is the technology grows more and there's more competition. I've been using it a lot to upscale music videos from the 80s. God knows the people that own these things aren't going to do it.
i wish you would go fullscreen when you show in vlc player. it's just the 'f' key
Noted for future videos!
Why do the remastered file gets larger than source, i understand the upscaled version is transcoded but is there a way to keep the file size from not getting too large? i.e .mp4
I'm not sure I understand the question. If you're moving a video source from 480i or 480p to 1080i or 1080p, wouldn't you expect the file size to increase? This was using mp4. I suppose if you wanted to use h265 you could probably gain more compression but you'd lose compatibility of playback on certain devices.
@@Darkuni I understand the first principles and know that transcoding / upscaling from low res to hi res will increase fize size, I have a couple 1080p videos in 70-80mb max. This tool takes a 30MB 720 × 480 converts to 1080p increases to 250MB. what i'm i missing?
@@craposoup684 because the goal is to help you achieve the best quality, not the file size so it's always set the bitrate at the highest.
If you need smaller file size but still keep the quality, you need another tool for that, note that this also takes as much time as upscale, because obviously who doesn't want both high quality and small file size at the same time, so the price to pay is time. There are many tools that can do this but I recommend Handbrake.
So all you need to do is upscale first with Topaz, then optimize the size with Handbrake. It will take a lot of time but the results are worth it. I have over hundreds episode of Tom and Jerry 720p with 30 40mb each right now and I am happy with it because Warner Bros never release the golden collection volume 2 so I need to do it my self 😂
@ Thanks for the feedback! I was able to figure out the issue, it turns out the 70-80MB files were highly compressed, the average size of lossless DVD vob is 200MB and larger, hence upscaling and encoding with H265 at 2k results in almost the same file size e.g. 215MB which is not bad. I'm not a fan of Handbrake, poor video quality even at high settings. Topaz Artemis gives the best results compared to other upscalers out there. Cheers!
Dude, there's DVD Decrypter which is FREE.
Does it handle the latest 4k UHD? I haven't seen a "free" version of any ripping software that meets my needs. For a simple DVD, perhaps it would do the deed. But people ask me what I'm using ...
Do you use a special software for interlaced DVDs when you’re converting them to mp4?
Didn't you ask this 11 days ago? I did respond ... :D
@@Darkuni yup! Sorry didn’t see your response. My bad. Thanks 😊
FYI all DVDs are interlaced
Upscaled, High Resolution and HD.
Keep it up good sir
15:00 where is his right eye? Stick with the dvd
The technology isn't perfect, that's for sure!
LOL