Adventures of The Little Koala: 1.0 Restoration is (not ) possible.

The VHS records of that cartoon are very rare and sadly, all those VHS tapes suffer from problems like:

• VHS have 333×480 pixels luma, and 40×480 chroma resolution(NTSC). Good luck with that on modern HD/4K/8K monitor.
• Some VHS tapes are recorded in Super Long Play (SLP), yikes >.<
• Washed-out VHS colors, bad hue and color saturation.
• NTSC (Never The Same Color).
• The chroma noise of the old VHS tapes is really, really bad
• Degradation of VHS tape due to it’s age, bad TV signal when recorded, bad or damaged VHS recorder/tape.
• Video-head tracking errors.
• Outdated video codec (like DivX 5) and low bitrate.
• The audio is noisy and jitters (damaged tape dirty A/V heads).
• Wrong aspect ratio, cropped video frame, weird frame rate.
• Youtube’s video compression on top of that.
• Could be worse! Like giant animated TV logos (i’m looking at you middle east)

I’ve tried my best to restore the video files i have. The restoration is not perfect and never will be with that source material. Video restoration is never-ending process, so i have to stop when it looks ‘good enough’.

Some useless info for nerds :
Tools: Adobe Audition, Avisynth, AvsPmod, avsproxy_gui, Avidemux, mkvtoolnix
Audio: noise reduction process,hiss-reduction ( Adobe Audition )
Video: avisynth filters: Autolevel ,TemporalSoften, ColorYUV, Tweak, WhiteBalance

Enough talk,where’s the good stuff?! Okay, okay.. here are direct inks to the some of the restored videos. Those are the ones with the highest quality (MKV video container with chapters, h.264 video codec with higher than needed bitrate, and AAC audio codec for total overkill)

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For the rest of the episodes with not so good quality watch my YouTube channel. For now, there are only few episodes uploaded, but i’ll upload more as soon as possible.