Avisynth filters for videogames

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:14 pm

Okay, so like many people, I'm a huge fan of videogames. As such, many of my videos have used them. However, as much as I love the AV Tech guide, nearly all of it's descriptions for video clean up via Avisynth are directed at anime. I can't use the same filters for both anime and CG-style videogame footage. If you ever try mftoon() on a Final Fantasy, for example, you'll see what I mean. Since CG footage falls somewhere between anime and live action, it's tough to know what sort of filters will work well with it.

So, my hope is that I can get some suggestions for good ways to clean up videogame footage - perhaps even resulting in a stickied thread that others can benefit from.

Thanks in advance for anything you can offer.

- Jen

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:30 am

well...not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it seems helpful
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106085

and you may find some useful filters in the usual places (may have to settle for filtering in vdub)
http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/
http://neuron2.net/hosted.html

hope you find something good

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:39 pm

When I was prepping my sister's Square video for encoding, as far as the Final Fantasy X (and maybe X-2, I don't know if she used that too) footage went, I think all I did to it was use deen. Most of the Kingdom Hearts footage was just bad to begin with, and required some supersampling (BilinearResize, if I remember correctly), deening, maybe a little WarpSharp-ing - although I can't remember that very well, and then back down to the resolution I put everything else at. The FF8 footage probably could have had more done to it, but I think I only used deen on it, too.

Advent Children, provided it's coming from the DVD, really only needs a light deening, like deen("w3d",2,8,8).

In general, though, I'd say that usually, if it's coming from PS2 games, you're probably only going to need to smooth it a little to take care of mosquito noise or other little things like that (and of course Crop if it's letterboxed). PS1 footage needs heavier smoothing and a good resizer, and possibly sharpening if the prior two things have made the footage a tad dull. In any of those things, nothing like mftoon would be necessary - that's complete overkill (much like the effect mftoon has on most anime

).

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:16 pm

Filtering Advent Children? Isn't that a bit unnecessary?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:11 am

there's no such thing as overkill

but I suppose for all of its CG glory, it could benefit from a little smoothing/sharpening (the whole copy != 100% thing I guess...maybe...a little?)