Example Slp.zip (4.6 MB)
Here is a sample of how it looks like. This happens every few minutes, so about 5% of the footage looks horrible while the other 95% acceptable.
Are there any ways to preprocess the footage before upscaling with Starlight Precise to avoid monster skin?
The source was a dvd, a 1970-s tv series, its perceived resolution is probably between 360-400 lines and blurry, since the master source they used is a poor quality old broadcasting tape of a telecined transfer.
First of all - properly deinterlace your input. I see interlacing patterns.
Starlight is unable to deinterlace video, so you’ll have to feed it progressive input.
I recommend Hybrid, but you can use whatever you are familiar with.
Now, let’s see Starlight Precise output after deinterlacing.
There are very few blended frames that have a bit of interlace/hard telecine areas but the content is progressive (hard telecine) and can’t be deinterlaced. IVTC done in Handbrake, which is one of the best tools for this task. I was thinking maybe some denoising or deblocking can help?
You can use Artemis with “Aliasing or Moire V9” (which is way at the bottom of Artemis model) , it perseveres original details, you can upscale 2X then used that with other AI models like SLP 2.5 to get better result. Let us know how’s the final result.
