Question about Masking understand, something, together, exactly

andy

I've been trying something the past days with Masktools and TEdgeMask but It doesn't seem to be working ( prolly to the fact that I still dont understand how masking exactly works ). Basically, I am trying to detect amp; Mask the edges present in a clip, then seperate the chroma inside and outside those masked layers , smooth them seperatly then finally overlay them all together with the luma. So far this is my attempt ( and obviously it won't work...gt;_gt; )

AviSource(..)

YClip = Greyscale()

UClip = UToY().EdgeMask(3, 255, 255, 255, quot;cartoonquot;,Y=3, V=1, U=1).deen(quot;a2dquot;)

VClip = VToY().EdgeMask(3, 255, 255, 255, quot;cartoonquot;,Y=3, V=1, U=1).deen(quot;a3dquot;)

Result = MaskedMerge(UClip,VClip,YClip)

return Result

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I really dont get it gt;_lt;; Any help is appreciated.