What does this program really do?

[Shayne]

This program appears to resize and crop and that is about it. Is this resizing filter faster and/or better that that of v dub. If i stay bicubic and use my calculator i real have no problems cropping and resizing in v dub and all other steps in this proggy are just plugins to others that really do not need an install which is nice on a format c:

I Thank you in advance for your insight

[dragoman]

Hi,

What this program does is take the guesswork out of a lot of encoding.

First, it offers a compressiblity test, which will tell you very accurately what quality your movie will end up at a given resolution.

As we all know, the closer the resolution to the source the better, so this is very valuable.

Second, it automates every step of the process. Also, it re-calculates your bitrate after every step in order to reach your desired filesize, and this feature is very good. Using DivX 3.11, I was getting within 100kb of my desired filesize.

Gknot will also encode and mux the audio for you, so in the end you can hit "start encoding" and come back and there will be a finished, ready-to-play movie waiting for you.

Not bad, huh?

dragoman

[Shayne]

Ok here is my process

Smart Ripper ====== D2V n M2V

Soft encode ---- DSEnc ---- Cool Edit (Norm) ----- Lame

DVDtoAVI ----- VFAPIConv ------ Nandub

So i want a one cd rip 700 meg and 16:9 bicubic (Close to 640 of course) 352 thats'constant where is the resolution coming into the picture?

So it appears you are telling me that some times a 512x288 may look better than a 640x352, is this correct i do not understand this concept. If you could explain it to me it would be greatily appreciated, and i thank you in advance.

From a size piont of view nandub settings are mastered and therefore if you give me a length and using Dooms VBR setting i will get you within 100 kb

[manono]

Hi Shayne-

Is this resizing filter faster and/or better that that of v dub.

Yep-it's better and will give you perfect Aspect Ratio, whereas doing it through VDub, it's easy to get incorrect AR (oval suns, moons, balls, or squashed or elongated heads). I'm not saying you can't get it right yourself, but with GKnot, you know it's correct.

So it appears you are telling me that some times a 512x288 may look better than a 640x352

Yes-definitely. If you are making your movies for 1 CD, for example, and your movie is long or action filled or noisy, then the lower resolution may not have macroblocks or artifacts of different kinds. At the least, the compressibility test will tell you that it's better to go for the 2 CDs if you want to use your 640x352 and still maintain good quality.

And last but not least, going the GKnot-AviSynth route will save you a whole lot of time in encoding over the VFAPI method.

[Shayne]

I Have ran 640 wide down to 352 and i do know what that will do for size and as far as circles my math is just fine.

What I was looking for and i thankyou is letting me know Avisynth is faster than VFAPI. Is this just another puggin to this program? and can i use it extenal (i will look into this) One thing for sure speeding up encoding for VFAPI for me right now would me money for a dually so again i thank you for your comments and we are definitily going to look into Asynth

[khp]

Avisynth is in no way dependend on GKnot (it the other way around), you can find a guide on avisynth here.

http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/synth-vdub.htm

[manono]

Hey-

Is this just another puggin to this program?

A plug-in for Nandub? Yes-but I wouldn't call it JUST another plug-in-you're in the GKnot forum, after all. And it's usually referred to as a Front End. You can use it for as much or as little as you like. If you prefer to configure the settings yourself inside Nandub, then no problem. Just set up your .avs in Gknot and take it from there.

If you use filters, there are quite a few available in AviSynth, or use them in Nandub as before.

Download and install the GKnot package and the 0.23 update and look around inside, and I think you'll be pleased with what it can do for you.

Edit: Hi khp-you beat me to it. You're right of course. But if you're new to AviSynth, then GKnot makes it very easy to set up an .avs correctly.