<p>The artifacts are on the original footage because a DVD used some oldie MP2 codec, you need to live with it.</p>

<p>You could try using a denoiser, some of them can detect compression artifacts. I am not spamming or anything, but take a look at Neat Video Denoiser.</p>

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2019-12-30T20:47:14.723Z
2019-12-30T20:47:14.723Z
Rafael
<p>It could be that you are looking for a filter chain more than a particular codec. See for example: <a href="https://www.engon.de/audio/vhs4_en.htm#cartoon_vhs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.engon.de/audio/vhs4_en.htm#cartoon_vhs</a></p>

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2019-12-30T19:55:23.947Z
2019-12-30T19:55:23.947Z
Mark Gulati
<p>If you see artifacts in your footage, it is most likely that the bitrate is too low. Try encoding with the h264 or libx264 codec at around 5 mb/s</p>

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2019-11-25T08:42:00.217Z
2019-11-25T08:42:00.217Z
Florian Claaßen
<p>Recently I ripped a couple of old DVD's to preserve them.
The original rip has a resolution of 720*576 and runs with 5100kb/s on 25fps interlaced.
I tinkered around with Handbrake and (hopefully) found the best settings.
The final file is a fifth of the size and runs progressively on 1000kb/s.</p>
<p>EDIT: Using h.265 NVENC</p>
<p>Getting to my question now. In the final product, there are a lot of colour artefacts in solid coloured planes. Is there any way to i.e. detect the mean colour in a similar coloured plane and colour the whole plane like it?</p>

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How to clean up old animated footage?
DerEntinator
# How to clean up old animated footage?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-24)

Recently I ripped a couple of old DVD's to preserve them.
The original rip has a resolution of 720\*576 and runs with 5100kb/s on 25fps interlaced.
I tinkered around with Handbrake and (hopefully) found the best settings.
The final file is a fifth of the size and runs progressively on 1000kb/s.

EDIT: Using h.265 NVENC

Getting to my question now. In the final product, there are a lot of colour artefacts in solid coloured planes. Is there any way to i.e. detect the mean colour in a similar coloured plane and colour the whole plane like it?

**Tags:** animation, compression, color, handbrake, cleaning


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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-12-30. Score: 1

The artifacts are on the original footage because a DVD used some oldie MP2 codec, you need to live with it.

You could try using a denoiser, some of them can detect compression artifacts. I am not spamming or anything, but take a look at Neat Video Denoiser.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-12-30. Score: 0

It could be that you are looking for a filter chain more than a particular codec. See for example: <https://www.engon.de/audio/vhs4_en.htm#cartoon_vhs>


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### Answer by username_3 on 2019-11-25. Score: 0

If you see artifacts in your footage, it is most likely that the bitrate is too low. Try encoding with the h264 or libx264 codec at around 5 mb/s


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