Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) - Full 501st Journal (Remastered & AI Upscaled) 4K

[@CameronKiesser]

I deinterlaced(assuming it was interlaced, otherwise it was frame interpolation) the original extracted video files with QTGMC and then AI upscaled with Topaz VEAI Gaia model for my attempt at restoring. Didn't know others were attempting to clean this up. Thought you were a reuploader. XP.

[@CameronKiesser]

Mine is very clear, not to brag. Still a tad weird in places. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHmmiXivasl4opI

[@longplaylegends]

Sorry for super late reply! Only issue I've had is... Well, so random example, but I've had issues where a game's intro (or cutscenes) seems to be a progressive video, but has interlacing artifacts, or maybe something like Dolphin for example, is outputting progressive with no proper way to record interlaced and then deinterlace, and that's been a big obstacle for me. Not to mention that after using something free like Waifu2x and then going into Magix Vegas, and then unsharp mask, then rendering, then uploading to KZbin... After all the damn compression, it hardly looks better than the original anyway and it's kind of frustrating. I REALLY aught to invest in Topaz, I've been impressed with it, and it being able to do a bunch of things in one step are great eg the models often upscale and smooth AND sharpen in one process which is awesome... I'm kind of torn. So many intros and cutscenes for favorite games that I'd love to work on with these tools but the former issue is especially frustrating.

[@CameronKiesser]

@@longplaylegends I want to say that QTGMC does do a good job getting rid of baked in interlacing artifacts, at least with my version of the enhancement.

[@longplaylegends]

@@CameronKiesser That could be a game-changer... I'm seeing people recommend using Hybrid for it? I tried it out a while back and there were so many features I got overwhelmed and uninstalled it lol. Guess it's time to fire it back up?

[@ArminiusFH]

That‘s digital restoration of the footage we love and adore. Good job.❤