Answers.Body: <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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Answers.Body: <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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Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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>
  
Tags: <animation><compression><color><handbrake><cleaning>
Title: How to clean up old animated footage?
UserDisplayName: DerEntinator
ThreadText: # 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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