Not sure if Im making a great Mp4

[Vanity]

Oki Iv'e made a good looking Mp4 but im not sure if it's to the greatest quality or maybe im talking craZy here:





Maybe im talking crazy but You tell me if my quality looks good. Because Im not sure If I made the mp4 to it's highest quality yett .

Heres My script:
MPEG2Source("C:\yourfolder\blah.d2v")
Telecide(order=1,dthresh=30)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=3, threshold=1.0)
fluxsmoothst(7,7)
tisophote(iterations=2,tstep=.25)
deblock()
crop(8,0,-8,0)
LanczosResize(848,480)

[mirkosp]

FLCL is 4:3 not 16:9. Change the

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LanczosResize(848,480)

to

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LanczosResize(640,480)

That aside, seems pretty good looking, to me.

[Vanity]

Yeah i knew that it's 4:3 but I like 16:9 alot but thanks..I guess I did my job right =D. I just wanted to know if there was a way to make it even higher quality =/.

This is the way I export my stuff: Sonyvegas make it uncompressed- Then I open it up in zarxgui and done.

[mirkosp]

Yeah i knew that it's 4:3 but I like 16:9 alot but thanks..I guess I did my job right =D. I just wanted to know if there was a way to make it even higher quality =/.

This is the way I export my stuff: Sonyvegas make it uncompressed- Then I open it up in zarxgui and done.

Well I don't think you can get an higher quality than that, you actually did a great job at getting rid of the aliasing (I know that FLCL has some really nasty aliasing...).
Anyway, if you really want to do a 16:9 release, then you should crop to a 16:9 resolution, not just resize, otherwise you'd get a stretched look since the ar is wrong (and it clearly shows in the screenshots over there). Still, I don't see the point in making a 4:3 show 16:9 if you're not going to mix it with widescreen footage too.... you either kill the ar or meaninglessly loose detail. :\

[Vanity]

i don't understand when you mean to crop it to 16:9 how do you do that?

[JaddziaDax]

it means you use crop() and cut off the top and the bottom... stretching the aspect ratio will just make people complain at you because it makes your video look wrong and ugly... its better to just leave it full screen

[AaronAMV]

Lol, I guess I have a good script.

'Cept you changed the AR

[Kariudo]

I'd add a sharpener to make things a little crisper after all the smoothing...but that's up to you.
I use limitedsharpenfaster(edgemode=-1) to tell me when I've done enough noise removal (the closer it is to white lines and black everything else the better)

same thing if you have limitedsharpen...which I think comes with the amvapp but if it doesn't...
link

[Zarxrax]

Yeah i knew that it's 4:3 but I like 16:9 alot but thanks..

LOL, it doesn't matter if you LIKE 16:9, it's simply WRONG. You can't just give your footage whatever aspect ratio you want it to have.

Also I still see a tad bit of black on the right edge you might want to crop some more. It's not a big deal though.

Also I would suggest removing deblock() and just enable postprocessing in the mpeg2source command: MPEG2Source("C:\yourfolder\blah.d2v", cpu=6)

[Vanity]

Yeah aaron your script rocks.

Yeah i know it's wrong...this was just a test and i usually make 16:9 AR but yeah it's wrong for sure...i wouldn't ever put wrong AR on my videos