I tried upscaling the Mortal Kombat 9 FMV Cinematic trailer with my simple workflow. How can i improve?
I'm really new to this whole video restoration and upscaling space. so for my first experiment, I tried upscaling the Mortal Kombat 9 FMV Cinematic trailer using topaz video ai, here is my 2 pass step workflow and you guys can tell me where i can make a difference in terms of better restoring this footage:
First step was ripping the 720p highly compressed BIK File from the game files, converted it to mp4 using a python script (CRF 0 for near lossless conversion but not really).
Pass 1: I threw the video to topaz and using the proteus model (starlight mini doesn't work on my pc) with no upscaling yet, i was able to remove some of the compression artifacts. parameters i used:
Fix Compression -->60
Recover Detail --> 20
Reduce Noise -->20
everything else was off for now.
Pass 2: took the exported 720p video from pass 1 and applied proteus on it once again, this time i upscaled to 1080p (i don't care for 4k since i don't have an actual display myself and this was just an experiment anyways). the parameters this time were:
Fix Compression --> 20
Recover Detail --> 25
Reduce Noise --> 15
Sharpen --> 15
Anti alias --> 15
Grain -->Size 1 Amount 3
and that's it. these are some of the screenshots of footage before and after. I know this looks very beginner upscaling but for my first time, it's not that bad. what can i improve on especially restoring background scenes that might be to blurry to even work on.
Original cinematic Trailer: https://youtu.be/o00-MspCacs?si=SExED5wsfv4Ps7v7
My upscaled footage: https://youtu.be/9I9zs7np3V0?si=cUW0ACjq_fmRJ6l4