softeners/smoothers

[jarthel]

This will be my first time in using this kind of plugin. I have a few questions and any reply is appreciated.

1.What plugin should I use? Can you include your favorite parameter for the plugin(if needed)?

2. Should I use an avisynth or virtualdub filter?

That's it.

Thanks again.

Jayel

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

I think most people's first experience with smoothers comes from the Temporal Smoother in either AviSynth or VDub. Since this is the AviSynth forum, I'll just talk about that version.

Try:

TemporalSmoother(2,1)

for starters.

It's a built-in function of the mpeg2dec.dll. That comes with the GKnot package if you don't have it, or you can just obtain the DLL and load it in your script using:

LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec.dll")

For more "accurate" smoothing change the second variable to 2 or 3. For a "stronger" smoothing effect, change the first variable to 3 or 4 or 5, etc.

Of course, increasing both values will slow things down; the second value moreso.