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whilst I appreciate 60fps I don't quite like it, probably because source is 24frame but more importantly it varies a lot for background and other scenes, making it jitter and just really take you out of the whole experience, but keep doing your thing, I'm sure many will prefer it. on side note, does your process work well with double frames? I can only imagine a ton of ghosting taking place in those series

With anime, not everything is animated at 24fps, characters normally have a new keyframe every 2 frames and backgrounds are normally every 3 frames. This gives you ~12fps for characters and ~8fps for backgrounds. These aren't strict rules and can vary between scenes. Interpolating from ~12fps to 60fps is going to give a bit of a weird result. Adding ontop of that, since you don't have 24fps of new keyframes, you end up interpolating between two of the same frames. Anime is also full of smear frames where they smear things to give the illusion of motion. While this can work in 60fps, it really should be smeared around having 60fps instead of 24fps. You also have jump frames, where the faster something moves, the less frames it has. I like 60fps, but anime isn't designed to be interpolated to it. If they started off with the intention of animating at 60fps, then it would be a whole different story.

Thank you for your hardwork. I want to inform you that you can use Google Colab to encoding. It is fast and support GPU and TPU hardware accelarator. Only con is that you have to use command line. https://github.com/biplobsd/Google-Colab-CloudTorrent this one has simple ssh connection. If you have used linux you will get used to it quickly

@sethazazel I'm willing to do whatever i can to make these look smoother with minimal artifacts I'll check it out lacking cpu power much less gpu lol and being busy I don't have much time to do experiments as these take hours