poopity poop
10th October 2002, 21:21
I've tried many temporal noise reducing fiters..and all sometimes leave that trail of a characters motion. I hate that, so I've never used it.
For anime I usually use 2-d cleaner (threshold=4), then warpsharp(10-15), and if I really want to get picky SSHQ between the two. 2-d cleaner is great, it really cleans things up and leaves the edges, The only problem is, in anime there are lots of large expanses of color.. when using these filters.. these colors wavier back and forth...like you are looking at something over a hot horizen and your vision is blurred by the heat..you know like black pavment on a hot day type of color wairvering...anyway
Well I was browsing the filters for a temporal noise filter to get rid of this, and I found this REALLY AWSOME filter called picfix.
This filter selectivly smooths pixels and doens't leave that annoying trail sometimes. It almost looks like you are using area-based smoother(if any of you used that). Its a good smoother, but not practical for HQ encodes, because it smooths things you don't want smoothed. Well this filter basically leaves anime looking AWSOME...with no pixel color waviering...just static color pixels where they should be in anime -- in the large expances of color.
I suggestthis filter set --
2-d cleaner
warpsharp
picfix
I played around with some settings, picfix has a threshold and a....best to worst seetting. I'm encoding Berserk which has the absolute worst, hands down, no competition, noise ever. I used settings of 8 threshold(goes from 0-16), although slighty higher seetings and low settings work fine(from 4-12 I'd suggest, even 16 the max worked fine), and I used qualiy of 1, best=0, worst = 4..when you download it you'll see what I mean.
This looks like a REALLY good filter...and the speed hit you take.. no more than 10-15% loss in speed..nice and FAST!
happy noise reducing:
comes from the author of media player classic(which I use), and VobSub, thanks Gabest
http://vobsub.edensrising.com/picfix/picfix.html
For anime I usually use 2-d cleaner (threshold=4), then warpsharp(10-15), and if I really want to get picky SSHQ between the two. 2-d cleaner is great, it really cleans things up and leaves the edges, The only problem is, in anime there are lots of large expanses of color.. when using these filters.. these colors wavier back and forth...like you are looking at something over a hot horizen and your vision is blurred by the heat..you know like black pavment on a hot day type of color wairvering...anyway
Well I was browsing the filters for a temporal noise filter to get rid of this, and I found this REALLY AWSOME filter called picfix.
This filter selectivly smooths pixels and doens't leave that annoying trail sometimes. It almost looks like you are using area-based smoother(if any of you used that). Its a good smoother, but not practical for HQ encodes, because it smooths things you don't want smoothed. Well this filter basically leaves anime looking AWSOME...with no pixel color waviering...just static color pixels where they should be in anime -- in the large expances of color.
I suggestthis filter set --
2-d cleaner
warpsharp
picfix
I played around with some settings, picfix has a threshold and a....best to worst seetting. I'm encoding Berserk which has the absolute worst, hands down, no competition, noise ever. I used settings of 8 threshold(goes from 0-16), although slighty higher seetings and low settings work fine(from 4-12 I'd suggest, even 16 the max worked fine), and I used qualiy of 1, best=0, worst = 4..when you download it you'll see what I mean.
This looks like a REALLY good filter...and the speed hit you take.. no more than 10-15% loss in speed..nice and FAST!
happy noise reducing:
comes from the author of media player classic(which I use), and VobSub, thanks Gabest
http://vobsub.edensrising.com/picfix/picfix.html