I 'm new at this TT_TT

[Mister Hatt]

Kionon lacks encoder eyes and he listed some problems with it for you. Why don't you read what he said.

[Cyrix]

He was imagining problems. The part of the girl he was complaining about was from the original DVD.

[Kionon]

I'm not imagining anything. It doesn't matter if the problems are in the original source (almost all are), you still have to fix them. You need to apply filtering to mitigate the damage. For that you need Avisynth. Period.

[Cyrix]

Naw I'm pretty sure you just use unsharp mask . Maybe I got lucky with Elfen Lied being progressive but if that's so it still is going to be giving good enough quality for beginners. Again, learn on the Camry before you get a BMW. I'm having many problems with my crappy Bebop bootleg, I might try avi synth for that

[Kionon]

Naw I'm pretty sure you just use unsharp mask . Maybe I got lucky with Elfen Lied being progressive but if that's so it still is going to be giving good enough quality for beginners. Again, learn on the Camry before you get a BMW. I'm having many problems with my crappy Bebop bootleg, I might try avi synth for that

If I could triple facepalm, I would.

Using USM Is still processing. Sure, you can try using processing methods inside of your editing suite, but they suck.

There is no "good enough quality for beginners." There is "do the best you can, take criticism when it is offered, and do better next time" for all editors. Trying to set some sort of minimum "easy setting" will simply create beginning editors that "default" to your "easy setting" and won't improve by experimenting with more complicated, but better, processes.

I actually drove a 3-series before ever driving any type of Toyota at all.

Not that you'd be doing very well on this score already, but admitting you use bootlegs, just kills even more credibility. That's not just frowned on here, that's actually straight up against the Editor's Code.

[Cyrix]

I see none of your AVI synth guides taught you how to recognize a joke.

Not that you'd be doing very well on this score already, but admitting you use bootlegs, just kills even more credibility. That's not just frowned on here, that's actually straight up against the Editor's Code.

It was one of the first animes I bought, before I knew how to recognize a bootleg. The quality of the packaging is so incredibly high I would never have guessed that FX is a bootlegging company. Seriously, my bootleg Cowboy Bebop has better packaging than my official anime DVDs, even the goddamned Evangelion platinum collection I paid $76 for. I haven't bought a bootleg since I learned how to recognize them in 2006.

Notwithstanding, I sure see a lot of people here talk about editing off of torrents, bootlegs, and even files ripped off of Youtube.

[Cyrix]

Also I had assumed with all these abysmal quality problems people are describing maybe they were using low-quality torrents or something.

[Kionon]

I see none of your AVI synth guides taught you how to recognize a joke.

It's a well known fact I have no sense of humor about community standards.

It was one of the first animes I bought, before I knew how to recognize a bootleg. The quality of the packaging is so incredibly high I would never have guessed that FX is a bootlegging company. Seriously, my bootleg Cowboy Bebop has better packaging than my official anime DVDs, even the goddamned Evangelion platinum collection I paid $76 for. I haven't bought a bootleg since I learned how to recognize them in 2006.

Irrelevant. In 1998 I purchased a few SonMay CDs before I knew they were bootlegs. When I found out, I replaced them by buying original copies. I certainly didn't parade around the fact I knew they were bootlegs and used them anyway.

Notwithstanding, I sure see a lot of people here talk about editing off of torrents, bootlegs, and even files ripped off of Youtube.

Which they are wrong to do, and when I see such discussion, seriously taken, I comment on it. I'm not "picking" on you.

Also I had assumed with all these abysmal quality problems people are describing maybe they were using low-quality torrents or something.

You assumed incorrectly. The vast majority of anime DVDs need some kind of filtering. Even some BDs are not without flaws (if they're not just horrible upscales, which happens more often than you'd think it would). You can't just say, "Oh, it's progressive, that's that" unless the footage really is very clean. Such DVDs do exist, Aoi Hana as an example, but they have been produced very recently (within the last year) and are often painstaking remasters of older anime (Utena's remasters as an example). Your Elfen Lied example is the norm: it has issues, even if it is progressive. They must be dealt with.

[gotenks794]

What's UTVideo?

[Cyrix]

Unsharp mask is a community standard?