AMV file size

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:53 pm

Castor Troy wrote:2 + 2 = 5

2+2=Fish

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:10 pm

Too many words!

If I have an option I will virtually always choose the higher resolution/quality version. 10mb/min seems like a pretty good bechmark to shoot for when compressing, if I'm under and it looks good, great, if I'm close that's ok too. A lot over usually means a mistake somewhere like not compression audio.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:21 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:2 + 2 = 5
2+2=Fish

SHRIMP PUFFS!!!

back on topic...I prefer quality to filesize. I'll download anything from 8-100MB...but I'll probably regret the 8MB ones more.

the connection at my school is good (but the network sucks), only took me about 30min to dl all of amv hell 3

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:31 pm

Everyones on highspeed nowadays. I do a convolution3d filter, a fastlinedarken, and an xvid first pass and call it good. I cant stand the look that a filtered video has. Even if its mftoon(strength=128), or a Deen(), or a rainbow removal plugin, I cant stand that flacid, drab look it gives the footage. I intentionaly dont over filter my stuff, so its often much bigger.

512x386 -> 256kbs audio -> convolution3d(preset="animeHQ") -> fastlinedarken() -> xvid first pass = AMV

Lets not even talk about adding noise and grain to your video intentionaly

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:26 pm

Beowulf wrote:Everyones on highspeed nowadays. I do a convolution3d filter, a fastlinedarken, and an xvid first pass and call it good. I cant stand the look that a filtered video has. Even if its mftoon(strength=128), or a Deen(), or a rainbow removal plugin, I cant stand that flacid, drab look it gives the footage.

hear, hear

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:48 pm

Well then bring on the rainbows!

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:41 pm

Rainbows?

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:56 pm

I don't get this rainbowing thing..?? I try to get rid of rainbows and other ones Beowulf voted against.. I just like the concept of not over filtering. I've had some help with people who are professional about this and I had to tone down the filters they gave me.. I'll even post an example.

Original

My Settings

His settings

His mixed with my settings

look at the right eye in his example vs the last example. I like my less overfiltered approach. He used this one tool to make outlines thinner and I didn't think that made it look pretty.. so I took out that one filter. If the filters are taking out details that I liked in the first place I'll try avoid using them.

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:43 pm

Beowulf wrote:I cant stand the look that a filtered video has. Even if its mftoon(strength=128), or a Deen(), or a rainbow removal plugin, I cant stand that flacid, drab look it gives the footage.

mftoon and Deen, the great equalisers of video filtering. There's no better filter than the human eye, and while I prefer that rainbowing and haloing and the like be fixed I'll take the worst source ever over something that makes me wonder if my glasses need cleaning.

Lets not even talk about adding noise and grain to your video intentionaly

Most added noise and grain looks artificial to me.

I'm currently in the 'filter the hell out of it' camp, partly due to sucky source and partly due to an interest in selective pre-processing rather than adding effects during the editing process.