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Amateur
24th January 2011, 03:36
most of the filters seem geared towards animation. i'm wondering if there is a guide to help me encode live action stuff. i'm wanting to encode my cosby, frasier, and seinfeld DVDs but haven't really gotten into them. are there many filter options or is it just a matter of more bitrate since there is more info on the screen?
Amateur
25th January 2011, 19:45
anything?
Amateur
28th January 2011, 03:45
i am still interested. if you can point me to a guide designed for live action rather than animation, that would help too. or if you know some filters which are better designed for live action.
GodofaGap
28th January 2011, 09:01
You would have to show a sample, because filters are generally only used to fix things. If your source is fine, you won't have to do any filtering at all.
Ghitulescu
28th January 2011, 09:29
Not only that one needs to use filters only to correct certain defects, but each filter is more or less designed to correct a specific problem.
First identify whether the series have quality problems or not, then identify the problems ...
Remember, that most filters would lower the quality of a good source due to unnecessary corrections they do upon.
Amateur
6th February 2011, 07:40
well, the first one i wanted to do was Ong Bak Thai Warrior (North American Release). I would give a video sample but the program i had was only a 10-day trial i guess. can anyone recommend a vob splitter that is free? that way i can give you a sample of this DVD and get some filter suggestions.
manono
6th February 2011, 09:20
The Ong Bak I saw (a different one) was in need of some serious work.

Give us 10 seconds of steady movement. Open a VOB in DGIndex, use the [ and ] buttons to isolate the piece you want, go File->Save Project and Demux Video, and upload the resulting M2V somewhere for us to have a look.
Amateur
6th February 2011, 15:50
edit: see post below for m2v instead of d2v

so far the only two filters i've thrown at it are pixiedust (still wondering if that's an outdated filter) and undot but i'm sure the results can be better.
Shirtfull
6th February 2011, 19:19
@ Amateur
Want the M2V not the d2v
Amateur
6th February 2011, 21:19
well crap sorry about that. here is the m2v. a 15 second clip

http://www.mediafire.com/?88pzghs6tnj7kvc

i saw this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144271&highlight=8mm) and was amazed at what this guy did. any chance of reproducing something even close to this? or did he have an advantage by having actual film instead of a dvd?