fastest smoother avaible for anime

[gavo]

I'm trying to comprass 26 episodes of anime onto one dvdr. I through that maybe a smoother would help abit but I dont want to be slow down to much. I used unfilter(100,100) which is quick fast. Any other suggestions for good comprassion.

[neuron2]

Originally posted by gavo
but I dont want to be slow down too much. At the risk of appearing pedantic (like I care), what is "too much" for you?

[Mug Funky]

some info would be noice... codec? resolution? which anime? (ie, clean stuff like gitsac or azudai will need no denoise whatsoever, whereas DBZ will need the crap smoothed out of it).

a fast and good smoother with good compression results is RemoveDirt. i think it might have been superceded by the clense-repair combo though... search for the removedirt thread and it'll tell you i think.

however, if your source is clean enough, there will be no need of denoising - you'll only lose details. however, you can gain some compression by mild blurring like your unfilter (this doesn't remove noise, but reduces high frequencies so the encoder can remove more on its own, increasing compression by a fair amount).

[DarkNite]

I've heard hqdn3d has a pretty good bang for the buck factor, but I haven't done a lot of testing with it. Beware of using any high settings for the spatial smoother though, it can quickly degrade your lovely DVD source into a blurry mess. I do know that much.

Unfilter(100,100)... wow. I have to see this. :)

@Mug Funky

What region are you in? I don't remember gits:sac being a clean source.

[Mug Funky]

@ darknite:

region 4. i had the privilege of encoding some of the GITSAC here. they're amoung the best masters i've seen (if not the best) - downcoverted from HD, progressive PAL speedups. no oversharpening, no noise, perfect colours and contrast. the only thing to worry about is mpeg artefacting, and there shouldn't be any of that as they're encoded at maximum (8.5 mbps CBR - any higher than that and people start getting underflows on playback).

[zilog jones]

Are the R2 PAL DVDs using the same masters? I've only seen the R1 ones so far - can't remember how bad they were, but 3:2 pulldowns never look nice to me...