Hi everyone,
I am currently working on a new video and I have been running into some frustration with the video footage I am trying to prepare for my video. I am ripping video from the ADV DVD release of Neon Genesis Evangelion that was released around 2001. I am running into several issues with the quality of the video and feel like my head is starting to spin from reading a lot of the different methods presented in guides here on the site.
I wanted to mention a couple of the issues I am running into and see if anyone else can offer any tips or suggestions for how to correct these problems to I can release a really nice, high quality video.
First off I am using the DVD Decryptor, DVD2AVI [had problems with DGIndex after AMVapp caused A LOT of problems on my system] and AVISynth 2.5.6 into VirtualDub to export lossless source clips. So far it seems that all the clips I have output are pretty "good" quality but they are not "GREAT!!". Part of this may be that the animation in NGE is not quite as clear and vivid as newer animes, and also that I have been analyzing the footage way to long, but I also feel there are valid technical issues I am running into.
Here are some of things I have noticed in the video clips:
01. Color seems to be a little bit less vivid than the original DVD footage.
02. Using my AVS script causes "jerky" motion in shots that pan scenery. [Such as scrolling panoramic shots.]
03. I get slightly jagged edges on solid lines [for example the NGE logo in the credits has a little blockyness to it.] Regardless of the field order I go with.
04. Any high motion scenes look terrible with a ghosting effect. It almost looks like when you play PC games on an LCD with a low response time.
05. Some of the jerky footage issues can be corrected by removing the Telecide and Decimate lines from my script but then the footage suffers from very noticeable interlacing issues.
Here is my current AVS script: [Still learning AVISynth scripts, feel free to offer suggestions / changes]
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\AMV01\VOB\DISK03\01.d2v", idct=5)
LanczosResize(640,480)
Telecide(order=0, guide=1, post=4)
Decimate(quality=3)
I wanted to see if anyone could offer suggestions in general, or if they have experience with these particular disks and the settings they used. Also any examples of scripts that people feel work the best or changes I should make to my current scripts to get better results. After following what I have read in multiple guides I am at a loss as to why I am having so many quality issues. I would like to get past this so I could actually start working on my video instead of burning myself out just trying to acquire good footage. Any advice or suggestions is appreciated. Thanks
-MindBug-


