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01-14-2003, 11:10 PM
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I've been playing with various smoothing filters and have come up with a nice combination for adding some serious numbers to the CQ level of a given movie.

Of all the combinations I've tried so far, what gives me the best compression increase is:

Code:
FaeryDust()
Convolution3D(preset="movieLQ")
I got my 2-disc version of Death To Smoochy up from about 73 to 85 with these two filters .

The script's output is quite smooth when viewed from WMP, and likely wouldn't be suitable for MPEG-4 encoding (or even high-bitrate MPEG-1), but for low-bitrate MPEG-1 it seems that the encoding process masks the lack of details fairly effectively. If you find this too much smoothing, try preset="movieHQ" for Convolution3D instead.

These two filters are very slow, though .

Anyway, that's what I've been playing with this evening. Make sure you get v4 of Dust since it fixes one of the bugs I mentioned earlier...

Test and post .
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Forgot to mention, I also used

Code:
Tweak(cont=0.8, sat=0.8)
to pull down the contrast and saturation a little. It is a very bright and highly coloured movie, and I think that was messing with the encoder somewhat.

Oh, and I also put a

Code:
Letterbox(8, 8)
before the GripFit to enlarge the top and bottom borders a little.
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01-14-2003, 11:21 PM
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Hehe, this just never ends
I can see it clearly in the (not too distant) future: The KVCD 300 minute
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01-14-2003, 11:23 PM
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Hehe, this just never ends
May it ever be so .

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I can see it clearly in the (not too distant) future: The KVCD 300 minute
(U)ltraLBR
Hey, I've got Death To Smoochy (2-disc, 192kbps audio) up from 73 to 96 and counting. I'm still a meg or so from the target .
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Maxed out at CQ 100 -- about 300kB below target size. I'm now going to watch the sample on the TV... Back in a bit .
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Looks very nice -- perhaps a little softer than usual, but not a lot. I'm thinking of trying the DVD trick (i.e. heavy smoothing followed by an edge-enhancement) next...

Of course the real test is an HDTV. Want a sample?
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Looks very nice -- perhaps a little softer than usual, but not a lot. I'm thinking of trying the DVD trick (i.e. heavy smoothing followed by an edge-enhancement) next...
What happens if you remove the C3D line . I just did a sample and it looks really great in the PC, but I did notice some very slight "screening" effect on the film.
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Of course the real test is an HDTV. Want a sample?
You bet

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What happens if you remove the C3D line .
Still get nice compression benefits from Tweak and FaeryDust, but not as much as with C3D movieLQ. CQ would maybe drop from 100 to 95 or so (that's just a wild guess).

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but I did notice some very slight "screening" effect on the film.
You mean when you watch it on the TV? Try using preset="movieHQ". Bear in mind that Death To Smoochy is very difficult source material, and is quite noisy.

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You bet
Uploading now. I'll edit when it's finished .

Edit: Here it is, 6.5mB.
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You mean when you watch it on the TV? Try using preset="movieHQ". Bear in mind that Death To Smoochy is very difficult source material, and is quite noisy.
Just watching on the monitor.
I did use preset="movieHQ" on "Count of Monte Cristo" movie which is very dark with smoke or dust ( haven't seen the movie yet, just the sample )

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01-15-2003, 12:13 AM
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(haven't seen the movie yet, just the sample )
It's not great -- nowhere near as much swashbuckling as there should be .
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Check the file name
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Check the file name
It's late . Fixed.
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There should be a "Hall of fame" sample gallery, because that definitively looks like a DVD
I'm going to re-encode "Count of Monte Cristo" again, which I had done at 352x480. I think that it can go on 528x480 with these filters
Just AMAZING

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01-15-2003, 12:27 AM
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What was your .avs script for that SansGrip
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There should be a "Hall of fame" sample gallery, because that definitively looks like a DVD
Ah, remember that's for two discs. If I could get it looking like that for one disc I'd be very happy . I'm playing with one-disc settings now. I'll post a sample, but probably not until the morning. I'm almost asleep .
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Ok, so I lied. Here's the same 30 seconds from the one-disc version (112kbps audio). It's nowhere near as good as the two-disc (particularly anything very saturated in colour) but it's a heck of a lot better than without the extra compression from the preprocessing.

It's starting to look like I might get it on one disc at 528x480 after all .
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There's no Blockbuster or Fluxsmoot there right
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It's starting to look like I might get it on one disc at 528x480 after all .
That looks perfectly good for one CD

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There's no Blockbuster or Fluxsmoot there right
Code:
Mpeg2Source("..\dts.d2v")
Telecide()
Decimate()
Letterbox(8, 8)
GripFit(528, 480, overscan=1)
Tweak(cont=0.8, sat=0.8)
FaeryDust()
Convolution3D(preset="movieLQ")
Sampler()
LegalClip()
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