Restoration sequence/steps?

[Bruce/Fl]

A simple question, and I may already know the answer, just looking for correction/confirmation.

I have been restoring some professionally scanned smm home movies. I am using Vegas (color corrction/editing/brightness and contrast mostly, and final rendering.

I also have dipped my toe into Avisynth (thanks to all here for their patience and assistance) and am using Virtual Dub for deshaker purposes.

My starting files are in .mov form.

I think my order of events should be:

Deshaker
Vegas for corrections, into a frameserver for Avisynth, then back into Vegas for final rendering.

The reason for my post is this past weekend I started correcting one of the files, then did the vegas/frame server-avisynth/vegas part, and realized I had it rendered down for BD ripping, and realized, "oops!", never deshook it. Probably should have done that first!!!

Do I have it right?

Thank you

[poisondeathray]

It would probably depend on what your goals were, including final distribution format(s)

For home video, even 8mm, sometimes people do quick rough edits to cut sections that for sure wont be used before processing. It speeds up processing especially if you have slow filters or processing.

Why are you going back to vegas the 2nd time that couldn't be done the 1st time ? And how did you plan to get the avisynth output back into vegas ? frameserve back in ? digital intermediate ? Why not render to final format(s) directly from avs ? Or if you wanted to use vegas for the encoding, why not do the deshaker /avs stuff first then vegas once ?

[Bruce/Fl]

It would probably depend on what your goals were, including final distribution format(s)

At the moment my goals are outputs for BD and DVD

For home video, even 8mm, sometimes people do quick rough edits to cut sections that for sure won't be used before processing. It speeds up processing especially if you have slow filters or processing.

Why are you going back to vegas the 2nd time that couldn't be done the 1st time ? And how did you plan to get the avisynth output back into vegas ? frameserve back in ? digital intermediate ? Why not render to final format(s) directly from avs ? Or if you wanted to use vegas for the encoding, why not do the deshaker /avs stuff first then vegas once ?

I'm very new and not very adept or knowledgeable about avisynth. Almost everything I learned about it was here at Doom9, in these threads:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172553 and also
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172737