Some of you newer folks are doing excellent work, but you don't realize how you can process video until after you come here, announce your completed AMV, and we tell you all the things you could have done to make the visual quality better.
"Great," you think, "this is all something to consider for NEXT TIME, but how do I make what I have already better?" Presuming you've already deleted your project files, you're stuck, seemingly. You *could* do an entire remaster, but it took you so long just to do this, that you'd rather chalk it up to experience and move on...
But wait, what if there was a way to apply post processing? And what if the steps were relatively easy? And what if the software involved added no extra cost to you? Wouldn't you want to present the best quality you could?
Well, there is. I recently have been experimenting with filter groupings in order to post-process some of my favorite videos from newer editors that didn't know how to pre-process, as well as older AMVs from a time before technology was able to produce the kind of quality we expect today. Certainly, I am capable of attacking most of what is announced on the forums today by relative newbies.
I am willing to take the time to correct your initial org offering, as well as go over step by step how I did it, and how I would have dealt with the issue in PRE-processing. This way, when you make your second video, you will already be a cut above everyone else. A cut above where I was at my second video, certainly!
For demonstration purposes, I chose one of the main videos I love, but had serious quality issues with:
Video: Toki o kakeru shoujo-Life After You
Category: Action, Drama, Horror
Anime: Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The (Movie)
Song: None listed
Artist: None listed
Creator: tu tu
Big fan of this video, but I am not a big fan of the video quality. I couldn't fix it completely, and short of remastering it with my own copy of the movie, there was no way to get it perfect. However, I think made excellent progress. Here are two examples, before and after. The first is a high movement shot, the second is a low movement shot. Original file is a 704x396 DX50/PCM AVI. My final file is an 848x480 x264/AAC MP4.




Certainly there are still issues, especially, when it comes to some smaller details (like the tile lines in the heavy movement shot) and I think that the preference of the org at large is that you pre-process or go back to the project files. However, if that is not an option, this is better than the alternative...
So, who needs help?