HOW TO MAKE VIDEO LOOK LIKE COMPLETE ASS

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:21 am

After exporting from Premiere (or whatever NLE you use) in Huffy format and loading your video into Vdub for some filtering, apply the following filters in the following order with the following values:

HSV Adjust with hue at a complete 180 degrees and 200% saturation;
General Convolution Matrix with a -256 in the center box and 128 at each corner;
Sharpen at maximum strength.

Congratulations, your video now looks like complete ass!

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trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:29 am

Alternatively, I could delete every other field and resize it back up to 720x480. That has the added advantage of using far less CPU cycles.

:/

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:31 am

naaaah! . hehe . . if you really want to piss people off, start your Video in Normal screen mode and then slowly shrink the seen portions while the Video turns into its negative

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:52 am

trythil wrote:Alternatively, I could delete every other field and resize it back up to 720x480. That has the added advantage of using far less CPU cycles.

No, that just gets rid of scanlines and some forms of ghosting. My method is a far superior way of making video look like ass.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:56 am

the Black Monarch wrote:
trythil wrote:Alternatively, I could delete every other field and resize it back up to 720x480. That has the added advantage of using far less CPU cycles.
No, that just gets rid of scanlines and some forms of ghosting. My method is a far superior way of making video look like ass.

Original:

Fields deleted, resized:

Congratulations, you invented a method to make video look like ass :/

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:04 am

What the fuck resize method are YOU using?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:14 am

Lanzcos3. VirtualDub 1.5.4's resize method. Trust me, it's the real deal. If you want, I can do the same procedure in transcode, using its resize with the Lanzcos3 kernel. I will get the same result.

You know how resize methods work, right? All they do is interpolate stuff in the regions that they don't know about. Generally that works a lot better for making things smaller than making things larger.

When you delete half of the fields in an image, that's fine; it's what we all do when we go from 720x480 -> 360x240. But when you want to reconstruct the missing data -- say, fullscreen video, or your discard+resize method -- it's a much messier task.

What you saw here happens with any video source, so now you know just how much information you're losing. It's just that the video sources you're using it on happen to be of such poor quality anyway that you just don't notice it.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:21 am

They looked fine on my War Planets footage, and that stuff is godly with the video quality even after resizing.

Still, do the thing with the saturation and the sharpening filters. Trust me, you've not seen ass until you've seen that.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:46 am

You know, that frame that you showed me would probably look okay if you increase the contrast and lower the brightness...

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:46 am

the Black Monarch wrote:You know, that frame that you showed me would probably look okay if you increase the contrast and lower the brightness...

The frame actually looks better, and makes sense, if you see it with the rest of the video.

Unfortunately, you can't do that until late September