Converting a Cartoon DVD to HD with AI Upscaling! (Drak Pack)

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In this video, I'll show you how to rip a show from a DVD, de-interlace it and figure out a good AI upscaling model to use with Topaz Video Enhance AI.
Products Shown:
TOPAZ VIDEO ENHANCE AI
www.topazlabs.com/video-enhan...
DVDFAB PASSKEY
www.dvdfab.cn/passkey-lite.htm
DVDFAB TOOLKIT
www.dvdfab.cn/toolkit.htm
ANYDVD HD
www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html

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@frankiepoindexter445 Жыл бұрын

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.

@richardspillers6282 6 ай бұрын

I'm really interested to know how that project goes.

@mechanicalpants Жыл бұрын

DVD Shrink is another great app that extracts and removes protection from DVDs and it's totally free!

@pokepress 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Darkuni 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the feedback. Was really just fooling around. There is a "CG" based model I could try ... see if that works better...

@pokepress 2 жыл бұрын

@@Darkuni I think that's actually designed more for computer graphics, not hand drawn animation, but you can certainly try it.

@TC-mk1tc 4 ай бұрын

Did you ever try and revisit this to try find better results? Would love a follow up video. I'd love to do it for all the cartoons I have. @@Darkuni

@Darkuni 4 ай бұрын

@@TC-mk1tc You know I haven't ... So many tools out there now ... might be time for another look ...

@TC-mk1tc 4 ай бұрын

I'll keep an eye out for it!@@Darkuni

@jaypatel1979 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please give us suggestions on some De-Interlacing software?

@Darkuni 2 жыл бұрын

I'm told StaxRip is good. I just use this: www.dvdfab.cn/toolkit.htm

@VideoProcConverter 8 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@TheBordogan Ай бұрын

Great Video. Thank you.

@Darkuni Ай бұрын

I may be reviewing another upscaler that is considerably cheaper. We'll see if the vendor comes through :D

@Dean..... Жыл бұрын

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.

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

It isn't super easy ... Especially with the lack of physical media...

@alexdownunder8757 2 жыл бұрын

Good video, i think the key was deinterlacing separately from AI Video Enhance.

@pokepress 2 жыл бұрын

It’s possible the deinterlacing filter is more designed for video with a full 60 fields per second rather than telecine footage.

@HondaSolo2001 Жыл бұрын

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?

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

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?

@HondaSolo2001 Жыл бұрын

@@Darkuni would it be easier to start out with the original VHS movie?

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@batman200 11 ай бұрын

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.

@Mind_of_MATT 10 ай бұрын

I would like to know this as well.

@jaypatel1979 Жыл бұрын

Do you use a special software for interlaced DVDs when you’re converting them to mp4?

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

Didn't you ask this 11 days ago? I did respond ... :D

@jaypatel1979 Жыл бұрын

@@Darkuni yup! Sorry didn’t see your response. My bad. Thanks 😊

@KrytenXBP Жыл бұрын

FYI all DVDs are interlaced

@joshd108 7 ай бұрын

I’m ready to rip the entirety of Adventure Time! The dvds look super pixelated even on a 1080p tv

@Darkuni 7 ай бұрын

God speed!

@craposoup684 Жыл бұрын

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

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

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.

@craposoup684 Жыл бұрын

@@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?

Жыл бұрын

@@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 😂

@craposoup684 Жыл бұрын

@ 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!

@TorrentFiend10 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate the long explanation and tips!

@iamvulgar8188 Жыл бұрын

If you crank revert compression, sharpen, and deblur on proteus you can get better results than artemis.

@Darkuni Жыл бұрын

I will check that out!

@iamvulgar8188 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@pimplefacedprick2595 2 ай бұрын

Wondering why you chose a cartoon for this tutorial. I know this tool is capable of enhancement since I have used it but cartoons being mostly solid colors is hard to really show what the software is capable of. A movie of any sort would be a better showcase.

@pineappleman570 5 ай бұрын

TY for the video. You should put a flashing lights warning in the title though

@Darkuni 5 ай бұрын

Really?

@bryanmonroe7799 2 жыл бұрын

Keep it up good sir

@CCJAN.5 8 ай бұрын

Good video. I wish I could upscale cartoons and other non animated movies then upload them to KZfaq without copyright issues. It would be nice to keep upscale versions of movies online (archive)

@Darkuni 8 ай бұрын

Set up your own Plex server?

@ClaireCJS 4 ай бұрын

i wish you would go fullscreen when you show in vlc player. it's just the 'f' key

@Darkuni 4 ай бұрын

Noted for future videos!

@megaheroes3611 Ай бұрын

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).

@Darkuni Ай бұрын

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.

@cmoneytheman 2 ай бұрын

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...

@franciscocarlosxavier1220 Жыл бұрын

Upscaled, High Resolution and HD.

@ButcherGrindslam 3 ай бұрын

Dude, there's DVD Decrypter which is FREE.

@Darkuni 3 ай бұрын

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 ...