MasterYoshidino
25th June 2003, 08:23
Some may notice that certain anime that is transcoded from old film/vhs such as oh my goddess or neon genesis evangelion will notice some funny "rainbowing" on edges. This is due to the cable interference when capturing. This rainbowing causes bitrates for mpeg4 codecs to reach 2000+kpbs when encoding high motion due to the rainbowing, which does nothing but reduce asthetics. The best way to filter this noise (when I mean best I mean nothing compares to it) is SmartSmoothIQ. (IQ NOT HIQ)
It surpasses temporal filtering on Avisynth filters as they rely on static edges to filter rainbows, while IQ will filter even hi motion scenes.
A decent way to encode would be to just run the telecide and mpeg2source filters in avs script and then load it and load SmartSmoothIQ at least twice. Three times is better, anymore will be overkill.
Save the AVI as a huffyuv so that you can apply avisynth filters to the temp IQ filtered file, sans rainbows ;).
Below are screenshots taken from Oh My Goddess OVA intro credits, where any other filter fails due to the hi motion preventing temporal median/average filters from doing any derainbowing.
Unfiltered, IVTC only (http://masteryoshidino.adultbouncer.com/images/goddess_ova_unfiltered.png)
IVTC, followed by 3 passes of 11 radius SmartSmoothIQ (http://masteryoshidino.adultbouncer.com/images/goddess_ova_filtered.png)
It surpasses temporal filtering on Avisynth filters as they rely on static edges to filter rainbows, while IQ will filter even hi motion scenes.
A decent way to encode would be to just run the telecide and mpeg2source filters in avs script and then load it and load SmartSmoothIQ at least twice. Three times is better, anymore will be overkill.
Save the AVI as a huffyuv so that you can apply avisynth filters to the temp IQ filtered file, sans rainbows ;).
Below are screenshots taken from Oh My Goddess OVA intro credits, where any other filter fails due to the hi motion preventing temporal median/average filters from doing any derainbowing.
Unfiltered, IVTC only (http://masteryoshidino.adultbouncer.com/images/goddess_ova_unfiltered.png)
IVTC, followed by 3 passes of 11 radius SmartSmoothIQ (http://masteryoshidino.adultbouncer.com/images/goddess_ova_filtered.png)