Help in selecting a suitable model

Hi, I’d like to know if you can help me.
I have a lot of videos recorded from my early days when film cameras like my Canon EOS3 were still used.
I’ve been a concert photographer for many years and used a Fujifilm FinePix S9500 for my first digital photos in conjunction with my Canon which was much better.
Fujifilm FinePix S9500
I bought this camera because it recorded video, but it was a very very modest video.
I have some real gems recorded that I’d like to scale up to at least 1080.
I’ve managed to get some pretty decent stuff with some tests. Considering its resolution was 320 x 240.
I’m not sure which model to get the best quality possible with… the files were pretty mediocre because they were very compressed in AVI format.
And it has some strange vertical lines when you try to view it in full screen.
I’m leaving you a file, I want to recover each video, stabilize and color grade it, give it a new life.
I want to master the audios with the software: ozone 9
but first I want to scale at least up to 1080p, I know it’s a huge amount of upscaling, but the concerts and videos are worth a lot for their content, I want to at least try.
The sample I leave you was recorded 22-01-2009 THE SMITHEREENS
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info:
General
Complete name : C:\Users\infoc\Desktop\DSCF6313.AVI
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format settings : BitmapInfoHeader / PcmWaveformat
File size : 230 MiB
Duration : 6 min 46 s
Overall bit rate : 4 747 kb/s
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS

Video
ID : 0
Format : JPEG
Codec ID : MJPG
Duration : 6 min 46 s
Bit rate : 4 613 kb/s
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.002
Stream size : 223 MiB (97%)
Title : FUJIFILM AVI STREAM 0100

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Unsigned
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 6 min 46 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 16.0 kHz
Bit depth : 8 bits
Stream size : 6.20 MiB (3%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1000 ms (30.00 video frames)
Interleave, preload duratio : 1000 ms

As a quick test, I ran a short sample of this clip through the app using the new Rhea model set to Auto. I would start with this model as it is trained to upscale footage by 4x and improve it before exporting it out at the resolution you set. I did set it to stay at that 4x amount. Also had to covert the audio to AAC to work with the mp4 output container.

video test clip

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impressive results…

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Thank you very much for the test, I forgot to mention that I export in Quicktime, Pro-Res. To maintain the maximum quality for editing in Premiere Pro.
I have exported almost all models with the x4 potion, in order to buy the frames. I liked the model you used.

My question is the following: in theory the original file indicates that it is progressive… but when you act in full screen, why can you see that sensation of vertical lines?
Is it because of the compression to the AVI format?
I wanted to test with the VHS and DV models. Deinterlacing to see if there is any difference,

I have exported in all the possible options that it allows, in some of them I have also used Motion deblur model themis.
The rhea1 or thm2_rhea1 versions I think are by far the best for this format. Stabilization does not work for this case.
What do you think?