Window size of filter editor

[steptoe]

Is there any chance of making the filter editor window either bigger or better still resizable so that if you have long filter names they don't go across two lines or more

Just a quick example :

Since I use CCE as from reading its been said its better to use Colormatrix so that CCE outputs the colours correctly, I now do so via the filters. It may be picky, and some may not tell the difference but thats me just trying to squeeze the best out of DVD-RB

Anyway, my filter list like this :

LoadPlugin("E:\Video
Related\AviSynth\plugins\Colormatrix.dll")
ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709")

Instead of :

LoadPlugin("E:\Video Related\AviSynth\plugins\Colormatrix.dll")
ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709")


Yes I know if you check the rebuilder.ini file they are listed correctly, but it looks messy in whats already a very effcient and well designed piece of software


And just being picky me again, I like to have filters on a seperate line where possible so it doesn't look like jumbled up non-readable code like in the old days of squeezing as much as you could on a line to save memory and excute faster and having a hell of a job to track down bugs later


So in the end ts more readable with a bigger editor window when you go back to add more filters or tweak filters for specific purposes

I can't see my screenmode making any difference, its running in 1280x768. Any smaller on my 17" monitor and I'll need glasses to see the screen !!

[jdobbs]

I'll take a look at it. I will probably just make it scrollable left/right -- but I'll see how much trouble it would be to make it sizable.

[Rippraff]

Just a side note, if you're calling a plugin which is stored in the default AviSynth plugin folder the LoadPlugin... command isn't needed, just use
ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709")
instead. ;)

Cu Rippraff

[linx05]

Thanks for the tip Rippraff!

[Boulder]

And 95% of the time you do not even need the ColorMatrix line.

[JohnGalt]

I will probably just make it scrollable left/right

you could also indent lines that have been made non-contiguous:

LoadPlugin("E:\Video Related\
AviSynth\plugins\Colormatrix.dll")
ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709")

[steptoe]

According to Nan who says that his version of ColorMatrix is included with his version of dgdecode.dll, you have to use LoadPlugin otherwise it don't work

I'm only using ColorMatrix as they calim that using CCE don't output the video in the specific format, but using colormatrix does

Makes no sense to me, but if it improves the final output even more then that extra bit of time is worth it

I had read here and there about CCE altering the final output colours slightly, but enough for some people

For us without huge whacking great flat screen wall TV's it probably won't make any difference, but I try to squeeze every bit of quality of out DVD-RB using filters if need be, especially with a poor source like ancient B+W films

[Boulder]

According to Nan who says that his version of ColorMatrix is included with his version of dgdecode.dll, you have to use LoadPlugin otherwise it don't work

AFAIK ColorMatrix is a separate plugin, NaN's DGDecode just outputs the hints automatically for ColorMatrix to use. If colormatrix.dll is in the plugins folder, you don't need to use LoadPlugin.

I'm only using ColorMatrix as they calim that using CCE don't output the video in the specific format, but using colormatrix does

Makes no sense to me, but if it improves the final output even more then that extra bit of time is worth it

I had read here and there about CCE altering the final output colours slightly, but enough for some people

For us without huge whacking great flat screen wall TV's it probably won't make any difference, but I try to squeeze every bit of quality of out DVD-RB using filters if need be, especially with a poor source like ancient B+W films
For CCE (and apparently for all encoders DVD-RB supports) you should use ColorMatrix(mode="rec.601->rec.709",hints=true). This way ColorMatrix is applied only when needed, which is not very often.

[steptoe]

oh yeah, I removed the hints part as I was struggling to get a filter chain to work so had to break it down and test each filter to fidn which one was being funny

I was doing a 30 sec test to see what effect the filters had on a crummy B+W source to try and do a better job of cleaning it up
and it moaned about the hints=true part, maybe due to the such short length of the test piece

I'll try removing LoadPlugin, as it does look messy, and see what happens

[Boulder]

ColorMatrix needs to be the very first filter that is applied to the stream, otherwise hints won't work. No resizing, cropping or anything else should be before it.