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Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:52 pm

Hmm...

Well first open the episode the shot is in, and if you hit "filters" in the Video pull down in Vdub (with Full Processing Mode below checked), you can add a filter called "Null transform" from the menu. Another option besides adding a filter will also be "crop" below. just seek to your scene, pull out the amount you want from the bottom, and then the amount proportionally from the sides (if you don't want a perfect AR, just half it on both sides... it's still a great look). As you may or may not recognize, this sounds like Zarxrax's guide on removing subtitles with my very little twist.

After you have reduced the size, go add another filter and choose "resize." You will be able to choose algorithms between Nearest Neighbor (on par if not worse than Premiere), Bilinear, Bicubic, and Lanczos. These are how the screen will be resized to normal. This is how they are different:

Bilinear - Gives a nice soft look but misses detail sometimes.

Bicubic - More detailed resize but not as perfect as...
(Precise Bicubic is inbetween here)
Lanczos - Very good resize, in my opinion. But should only be used if you have perfectly detailed footage such as DVD. Some of the preciseness may only help retain some artifacts better.

Once you choose one, set your size back to 640 x 480, and OK out. Using the Show Preview helps, too.

Now, as for popping it out of Vdub, if you look at the very bottom buttons, the two on the far right will mark the beginning and end of your clip you're tampering with. You can simply seek, or use the arrow buttons with yellow keys under them to skip between scene cuts. You can then use the normal arrows to move frame to frame until you find the start of the clip. At that moment, hit the first of the two buttons at the end. Seek/keyframe towards the end of the clip, and hit the very last button to end your source range.

After we've set our modifications and selected the clip, we just need to select compression settings. Go to Video and select Compression. You can choose either huffyuv or uncompressed as the best options, or recompress at XviD if you're low with space and aren't a perfectionist. Seeing as you use MPEG as your distro choice, I won't go into the XviD option since that takes a while to explain. ;p

You can then hit Audio > No Audio to make things easier in premiere if you'd like, and then File > Save .avi to save your modified clip!

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:54 pm

Maverick-Rubik wrote:Well first open the episode the shot is in, and if you hit "filters" in the Video pull down in Vdub (with Full Processing Mode below checked), you can add a filter called "Null transform" from the menu.

Gosh... I must have felt like I was in a hurry or something...

YOu can add a filter called "null transform" from the menu that is opened from selecting "filters."

Full Processing mode is within the Video drop down.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:01 pm

Thank you very much Mavrik! That was awsome of you to take the time to help me.

I'll try it tonight (Assuming my sister shows up with my footage disks. Grrrrr). ^_^\/

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:47 pm

While we're at it, I think I should tell you a fine avisynth script (in my opinion) that I've crafted for smoothing/sharpening Naruto's footage.

AVIsource("C:\insert video here.avi")
deen("a3d",2,4)
aWarpSharp(14.0,2,0.5,1)
fastlinedarken(24,191,1)
Levels(0, 0.9, 255,0, 255)
tweak(cont=1.1,6,bright=0)
deen("a3d",2,4)

If you're new to avisynth (really sorry to make assumptions), you can download it and its filters from the AMVapp in EADFAG. It doesn't work like vdub, but is instead a real-time frame server (sorry if I misused this term) in words. It basically allows text documents with a .avs extension to act as video files. For instance, the AVIsource script in the one I just gave you makes this script represent the video file "insert video here.avi." So opening the .avs of this script will have the same effect of opening the video file itself.

With the added filters, however, it will play the videos with the filters applied in real time. Allowing quick cosmetic changes to be applied without re-encoding it. The only downside is that it lags on playback, and you'll need the original video (of course). So we'll just simply run the .avs into vdub or TMPG enc. and compress it.

Once installed, making a .avs script is easy. Open notepad, copy the code I typed above, and paste it into the text document by itself (you'll want to change the location/title of the .avi to your raw copy, though ;]). Then save the document as whatever you want, but type .avs to the end of it. This makes it a true .avs document that can be ran into your encoder.

As for my script, you don't have to use it, but I'd just like to know how it makes your video look. Again, I'm really sorry if you already know about avisynth. I didn't mean to kid you around. Oh and I'll also apologize in advance if the script looks bloody terrible.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:23 pm

Thank you!

I tried the script though and keep getting this error:

Unrecognized exception Line 2

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:33 pm

Darn, that means you don't have Deen.

Unfortunately, this is probably a very key part to the script for it smooths over the artificats before-hand for the following filters, and smooths over any real jagged or loopy looking visuals afterwards.

I'm sorry, but I think that the only way to get ahold of Deen would be to redownload the amvApp and install the latest filters pack (another person I know had the same problem as you).

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:47 am

Maverick-Rubik wrote:I'm sorry, but I think that the only way to get ahold of Deen would be to redownload the amvApp and install the latest filters pack (another person I know had the same problem as you).

I already thought of that.

It didn't work. Do I have to reboot first?

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:23 am

Weird...

What I want to say is that you might want to move/clear your old avisynth folder before installing another (hopefully this was the case). Although, I have a feeling that might not be it, but it's better to try something.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:07 am

Maverick-Rubik wrote:Weird...

What I want to say is that you might want to move/clear your old avisynth folder before installing another (hopefully this was the case). Although, I have a feeling that might not be it, but it's better to try something.

Is it possible you made a typo when you posted the script? Just trying to go through all possibilities.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:47 am

Make sure you are feeding deen the colorspace it needs (YV12).