Your suggested scripts

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:25 am

When http://www.amvwiki.org was up, there was a page for users to submit their avisynth pre-/post-processing scripts for getting the best video quality from specific source DVDs/boxsets. It was pretty useful, and we might as well make one here.

Post yer scripts here and i'll (hopefully) maintain an updated list by source title, release edition, etc. If you wanna explain what less common filters you're using are, and why you use them, it'd make the list all the more helpful. beforeafter() screenshots would be cool too.

Scripts:

Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV)

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:17 am

This is the filter I used for Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV), R1 DVDs released by Software Sculptors, while making Something Fishy, I saved it in case I wanted to make an Utena video sometime in the future. This was probably one of the more difficult ones to figure out

*the crop may seem odd but theres some really odd stuff around the edges I was attempting to remove, it looked like water damage.. I suppose you can change the crop to reflect what you would want.

*It also takes a while cause I used mftoon but I'm a patient person, so it doesn't bother me to wait.

This is a PREPROCESSING script

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AVISource("K:\Latest Video Project\Utena\utena.avi")
converttoyv12(interlaced=true)
Crop(8,4,-8,-4)
LanczosResize(640,480)
fielddeinterlace()
TemporalSoften(4,4,8,15,2)
deen("a3d",4,5,20)
FastLineDarken(strength=100)
tweak(sat=1.8)
mftoon(strength=20)

and question: if I decide to add other filters to this thread can I add them to this post? or should I just make a new post?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:24 pm

if you wanna change the filters to your script, you can edit your post. if you wanna submit a script for a different source, make a new post.

Sereenie · Post by **Sereenie** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:13 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:This is the filter I used for Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV), R1 DVDs released by Software Sculptors,

I think I'd add a line to correct the yellow tinge there. Look at Wakaba's eye: the tweak adjustment you made, which worked fine on the rest of the picture, made the yellow tinge way too obvious.

S.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:21 pm

I'm not working with Utena right now, if i decide to change it later I'll have the post updated

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:09 am

There was some discussion about the usefulness of posting suggested scripts for others to use a while back. See this thread:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=74182

The main concern was that people would be copying others' [imperfect, sometimes misleading] scripts without giving any thought to learning how to use the filters themselves. However, it seems that many people still like the idea of a script collection. I have two suggestions that I think would help here:

1. In the first post, before linking to any scripts, add a link to this page:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... tqual.html
Zarx gives some really good cautions and guidelines on when and when NOT to use certain filters. It's a great primer for anybody looking into this postprocessing business.

2. Emphasize that we need deinterlacing scripts just as much as we need postprocessing scripts, if not more. Deinterlacing is not as subjective as postprocessing, and sources have become tricky enough that having a collection of tried-and-true deinterlacing scripts would be really useful. It might be a good idea to link to this, for reference:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ssive.html

I'll see if I have anything to contribute once I get home tonight.