Getting higher quality from DVD-ripped DivX footage.. help

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Getting higher quality from DVD-ripped DivX footage.. help

Postby feiticiera » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:26 pm

Hi. i realise that this may have already been asked here or somewhere else before, but i do not visit the forums very often, and i do not have the time to search through and find it... a simple post redirecting me would be nice, or any help you could possibly offer would be greatly apreciated..


i downloaded the princess mononoke divx rip. there is definate quality loss, and when i try to work with it in premiere, it gets worse. and when my hard drive crashed a while back i lost my project file for a vid i was nearly finished. i was able to get the beta back from a friend, but it's encoded at average quality using the divx5 codec. now is there anyway i can try and restore the quality without having to totally redo the vid? it's already about three minutes and twenty seconds done... i really don't want to have to try to redo this... if there is anyway i can boost the quality in these video files, then please.. let me know, or direct me to a guide where i can learn how..


once again thank you.. :)

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Postby Brolli411 » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:36 pm

We discourage the downloading of animes to make videos. Buy the DVD. You can get Princess Mononoke anywhere that sells electronics. Then use the Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides to learn to rip the DVD.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:41 pm

hey buddy if you were a noob id flame the shit out of you but you're a friend so I can supply that info.

try running it through some filters like 2Dcleaner or SmartSmootherHQ to get rid of any artifacting that might be in the beta. Some other good ones are Convolution 3D which smooths temporally and spatially and WarpSharp which sharpens the edges of objects without increasing frequencies. Similarly theres Msharpen which sharpens the whole image instead of just edges in a similar way that warpsharp does.

all the info is actually right here:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... tqual.html
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Postby CoolMatty » Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:38 pm

And of course using DivX for source is a really bad idea in the first place. Try to always use something that isn't lossy.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:51 pm

thank you SO MUCH for that incredible insight


how the hell did you dig this thread up? how? why? whyyyyyyyyyyyy?
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Postby CoolMatty » Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:31 pm

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Well, it was still on the front page ... in the middle ... Don't have to jump down my throat about it!
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:50 pm

sorry, necroposts, especially those with like nothing real to contribute, are highly frowned upon

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Postby Stoic » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:02 pm

Brolli411 wrote:We discourage the downloading of animes to make videos. Buy the DVD. You can get Princess Mononoke anywhere that sells electronics. Then use the Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides to learn to rip the DVD.


Let's just be clear on this, Is it ok to download the anime if you own the DVD but lack the hardward to rip it...

Which isn't my case, but for future reference.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:07 pm

if you lack the hardware to rip or capture it why are you making amvs? is the question. Not to mention if you've got a computer capable of decent editing you should have a dvd-rom. Thats kind of a lame loop hole :\
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Postby Stoic » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:11 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote:if you lack the hardware to rip or capture it why are you making amvs? is the question. Not to mention if you've got a computer capable of decent editing you should have a dvd-rom. Thats kind of a lame loop hole :\


It was just a question. I rip my own stuff, I'm actually re-ripping hellsing right now because I screwed up the first time :'(. Then I have to re-do Cowboy Bebop, then I have to do lain, then I can make my Video... Thank god for Batch Encoding :)
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:12 pm

ohh, I thought you were saying, it should be okay

I dunno, its not up to me to judge, although it sounds kind of lame for an excuse :\
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Postby Stoic » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:19 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote:ohh, I thought you were saying, it should be okay

I dunno, its not up to me to judge, although it sounds kind of lame for an excuse :\


It's just faster to download than Rip. Atleast with my hard-drive. I KEEP TRYING TO DEFRAG AND IT JUST WON'T DO IT! After each Defrag it still analyzes exactly the same. And it takes like 6 hours to do it. FOR THE NAME OF GOD WHY WON'T ALL THE LINES TURN BLUE...

Anyways, I'm buying a new hard drive just for DVD Rips, CD Rips, and my Media Projects :) 80 gig of course.

But I was just wondering if that was frowned upon... I don't do it because I have no respect for those who distribute and I don't want to encourage them. :)
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Postby Synthangel » Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:24 pm

It's faster for you to download than to rip? I ripped the entire Escaflowne series in...about an hour. You can download 26 episodes in less than that?!?!?
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Postby Stoic » Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:41 pm

That was YOU! It takes me about 45 minutes to rip one 24 minute episode.

And yeah I can if I use the T-1 line in my network, but I don't use that connection for personal use...
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Postby klinky » Mon Feb 17, 2003 11:30 pm

Dude by a new DVD-drive. What are you using a 2X DVD-rom ?

16X for like :\ $40 - $50.

Even on fragmented parts of my hard drive, I can still get about 10MB/sec off of it. It usually takes about 20minutes per DVD on my crappy 8X(which really only likes to rip at 4X - 6X :( ).



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