Thank you so much, I’m very happy you enjoyed the vid with its lighter mood and of course I’m delighted to go into the technical details. The few transitions I think you mean were soft gradient wipes. Not sure what the equal in other editing programs is, but it comes down to a soft image mask. You just need to make a black/white mask with the parts you wanted ‘to last’ a bit longer. About the final encode, I wanted it to be more colourful than common for a SPN vid and also very smooth, while still being crisp.
So without further delays my final encode script was:
The image mask for additional colour tweaking and darker edges was this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/xAstartex/maske1.jpg) as bmp. You see that the tweak sets the saturation up two times and in the second one, I add a tad darkness and more contrast. I think what also needs a bit of an explanation is the dfttest – download here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=132194) - it’s a denoiser and responsible for the smoothness. sigma=1.5 is a pretty high setting, but what I had in mind for this vid. I usually prefer a bit of a grittier look than this, on the other hand I just found this filter and was giddy with the results. MSharpen for additional sharpness and the temporalcleaner is pretty self-evident. I put this avs-script through VirtualDubMod and exported it with the Huffy codec, a lossless one, and got a 2 GB file which I then put through the divx converter in the Home Theater Mode without any additional tweaking.
On a final note, I keep my DVD scripts for editing very basic, they look something like this:
In general I don’t run into any interlacing problems with my PAL DVDs – except one time with a Deadwood DVD completely at random, but not with my SPN so far, which makes my life a lot easier. All of my additional filters come into the final script and I don’t mind half an hour for VirtualDubMod export with them, because it doesn’t slow my editing down and essentially things can be tweaked there. If you have any questions just shot, I really like talking about scripts and stuff and sadly nobody is interested. *chuckles*
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So without further delays my final encode script was:
LoadPlugin("C:\Windows\dfttest.dll")
AVISource("C:\Mixed\One Week\oneweek-astarte.avi")
ConvertToYUY2
tweak(sat=1.10)
clip1 = AVISource("C:\Mixed\One Week\oneweek-astarte.avi")
farbe1 = ImageReader("C:\Mixed\One Week\maske1.bmp", start=1, end=2250, fps=25)
Overlay(clip1, farbe1, opacity=0.2, mode="hardlight")
ConvertToYUY2
tweak(sat=1.2, bright=-16, cont=1.25)
dfttest(sigma=1.5)
MSharpen(strength=45)
temporalcleaner()
LanczosResize(720,400)
The image mask for additional colour tweaking and darker edges was this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/xAstartex/maske1.jpg) as bmp. You see that the tweak sets the saturation up two times and in the second one, I add a tad darkness and more contrast. I think what also needs a bit of an explanation is the dfttest – download here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=132194) - it’s a denoiser and responsible for the smoothness. sigma=1.5 is a pretty high setting, but what I had in mind for this vid. I usually prefer a bit of a grittier look than this, on the other hand I just found this filter and was giddy with the results. MSharpen for additional sharpness and the temporalcleaner is pretty self-evident. I put this avs-script through VirtualDubMod and exported it with the Huffy codec, a lossless one, and got a 2 GB file which I then put through the divx converter in the Home Theater Mode without any additional tweaking.
On a final note, I keep my DVD scripts for editing very basic, they look something like this:
mpeg2source("C:\Mixed\Supernatural\Season 2\Index\SPN2x01-2x04.avs.d2v", cpu=4)
Or for a TV show, I don’t have DVDs yet and without a logo:
FFmpegSource("C:\Mixed\Supernatural\Season 3\Supernatural 3x01 The Magnificent Seven.mkv")
Trim(0,56312)
converttoRGB32 xlogo("C:\Mixed\Supernatural\Season 3\cwlogo2.bmp",868,564,5)
LanczosResize(720,596)
AssumeFPS(25)
In general I don’t run into any interlacing problems with my PAL DVDs – except one time with a Deadwood DVD completely at random, but not with my SPN so far, which makes my life a lot easier. All of my additional filters come into the final script and I don’t mind half an hour for VirtualDubMod export with them, because it doesn’t slow my editing down and essentially things can be tweaked there. If you have any questions just shot, I really like talking about scripts and stuff and sadly nobody is interested. *chuckles*