Duke Nukem Forever 2001 Trailer Upscale/Remaster

Phredreeke

#1 Posted 11 August 2019 - 08:25 AM

I've been requested to do this, and I finally reached a point where I'm happy making it public.

A few slide-over comparisons
https://imgsli.com/NTQxNg
https://imgsli.com/NTQxNw
https://imgsli.com/NTQxNA

If there's any interest I can upload the video somewhere for download to avoid YouTube recompressing it. Thanks to elfor, FutureTime23 and Cianez for feedback

and before anyone asks, I currently don't plan to upscale the 1998 trailer

DisgustedGrunt

#2 Posted 11 August 2019 - 10:01 AM

It's... beautiful.

Ninety-Six

#3 Posted 12 August 2019 - 02:06 AM

So this is basically what it would have actually looked like without the muddy recordings.

Awesome.

Phredreeke

#4 Posted 12 September 2020 - 04:51 PM

Futuretime asked me if I could enhance some clips from different DNF trailers. Here's one, the stadium fight from the Bryan Brewer demo reel.

Unfortunately, I don't think the video is of high enough quality to get any acceptable results from upscaling. This has only been cleaned up using a special model for heavily compressed video, then upscaled using regular bicubic scaling (to take advantage of the higher alotted bitrate)

Here's a slide-over comparison

This post has been edited by Phredreeke: 12 September 2020 - 05:18 PM

Phredreeke

#5 Posted 18 September 2020 - 03:55 PM

Yeah, I think this is as good as it'll get, plus I got a ton of other projects to work on.

In addition to upscaling, I've generated new in-between frames to replace duplicates (for most of the trailer, it's been excluded in scenes where the result was more annoying than the stutter)

This post has been edited by Phredreeke: 18 September 2020 - 03:58 PM

William Beavis

#6 Posted 30 September 2020 - 04:09 AM

Wow, what program or programs did you use? Definitely improved!

Phredreeke

#7 Posted 01 October 2020 - 03:47 PM

ESRGAN with multiple models (they are listed in the youtube description) for upscaling. Avisynth with MVTools2 for motion estimation

Decided to make some slide-over comparisons
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTE
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTM
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTQ
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTU
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTY
https://imgsli.com/MjM5NTc