ADM,

I have a tech question for you.
Got a hold of a bootleg concert that was filmed handheld and that is shaky as hell.
I was wondering if you knew how to stabilize the shots in an editing software.

I realize that it would most likely mean stabilize the frames section by section with the most corresponding reference pixels.

Any thoughts or experience ?

I have just finished editing a project in womble, and exported it successfully. My only problem at this point is with the transitions.

I had made my first cut, exported it and then dumped that back in to clip a couple of extra frames, and to tweak a couple of tiny spots. I authored the the DVD in DVDlab Pro2 and then shrunk it down to a DVD5 and burned it with Nero Recode.

When I watch it on my Optoma (HD70) projector, some of the scene changes are really obvious, due to a large amount of horizontal lines showing up for a split second during the scene change. Some are worse than others, and some of them are fine. It all looks fine in Womble, and when I play the demuxed Mpeg in Nero Showtime, but that could be due the fact that it's on a tiny little 19" screen, and not on my projector.

Any ideas?

Sounds like the source (or at least some of it) was interlaced or telecined. Probably the latter. You'll need to IVTC the video source (dgindex->Gordian Knot AVISynth Script->TMPGEnc to a new M2V/MPV file, change the name of the original stream to .bak and then the new stream to the name of the old stream, and then re-open Womble and re-export the streams.

It sounds more involved than it is. The only command you'll need in your AVISynth script is the telecide command. Go with what Gordian Knot selects by default. Make sure any crop and resize lines are commented out.

I just had to do this with all the deleted scenes from Blade Runner. I was very surprised to see them telecined but they were. At least they were 16X9.

Wow, I would have never guessed that Transformers (2007) would have been interlaced or telecined. I guess I'll try to stumble through what you just suggested. I'll probably have to beg your help once again before it's all said and done.

Could you maybe list those directions in way that a person, who is not real familiar with those programs, could understand them? I assume that I'll be doing this to the demuxed files that i loaded into womble, and that i'll have to go back to the first womble save, and not my fixed, second exported file?

Couple quick questions. First is there a difference between the Womble export file options (.mpg and .mpv) ? I had been exporting them as .mpv then later I noticed it somehow got changed to .mpg. I'm still getting a complete stream copy which is what I want but I just want to be sure which file type I should be saving as (if it matters).

Secondly when I import my movie file into DVDlab Pro it gives me a messages saying the file still has "open GOP's". Am I doing something wrong when exporting from Womble to get this message with the file in DVD lab Pro?

If you separate the audio and video streams separately, then there should be no difference between the .mpg, .m2v, and .mpv extensions. You can change the extension with no ill effect in my experience.

Ignore the Open GOP warning. I get that all the time.

Reave, when I've analyzed these interlaced files in DGIndex, I've noticed that they're called "NTSC" and the non-interlaced ones are called "film". Perhaps it's simply a flag that, if ignored, will make the file usable. I've been re-encoding just because mixing the two types leaves those very issues you're talking about.

What directions in specific do you need? I do recommend simply playing with the program and learning all of its features. Also, check out www.videohelp.com and www.doom9.org ... they can answer far more in-depth questions on Gordian Knot.

Cool, thanks for the reply, ADM!

Good luck!

Glad you got it worked out. By the way, GK and Auto GK are NOT the same product. I have both. AutoGK is good for making DivX/Xvid files, but GK is good for getting all the helper apps properly installed and for setting up a basic AVISynth script.

I need to update the guide. You can load your .AVS scripts directly in TMPGEnc, bypassing the need to make an AVI in VirtualDubMod and saving a ton of room on your drive. Also, the latest version of Womble can do decent upmixing of 2.0 to 5.1 AC3. I've played with it some and gotten some reasonably good results.

Would that make it possible to use an Audio CD and a 5.1 DVD in womble, and output a 5.1 file?

I believe so, yes. Makes me want to re-do Echoes/2001

Updated the sections on 4:3->16:9 video and on 2.0->5.1 Audio

Could be any number of things.  Most likely the combined bitrate is too high.  If it's not that, it could be that the source had two different framerates.  Or aspect ratios.  Or the settings of the export could have any number of flags.  I recommend checking those places first, and see if it resolves.  I've often had to mux a film over a dozen times before I'm happy with it.  I'll get all the way through previewing it and see a bad frame here or something off there and have to go back to the project file, make the trim or settings change, duplicate it in the audio, re-export the streams and re-mux the disc.

Blade Runner 2008 darn near killed me ... haven't done an edit in six months as a result, because I really wanted that one to be right and at the same time make fans as happy as possible with all the audio options.

In my early days of editing my problems were technical ones, not unlike what you're talking about.  Hopefully the points in paragraph 1 will help you out.

--ADM

Is there any easy free way to just convert some of my vids from like avi to mp4? I would really rather not go out and buy software. Your help is most appreciated thanks!

www.videohelp.com has info on the latest tools.  AutoGordianKnot is probably your best bet.

ADigitalMan said:

www.videohelp.com has info on the latest tools.  AutoGordianKnot is probably your best bet.

 

 for mp4, and mkv, autogordian knot is outdated..

try autoMKV..

 

later

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