Guys, just kill me.

Had a watch of the 4K-pilot I put out previously and while most of it looked good, there were several scenes that suffered from motion stuttering, and it actually kept getting worse as the episode went on up to the point during the final battle between the station and the cardassians that some frames actually doubled.

Since that is not the kind of “quality” I wanna give you I spend most of yesterday and today trying to figure out what happened and of course it came back to … VFR of the source (big surprise there, I know).

Turns out the approach with Virtual Dub and the Donald Graft filters (Telecide and Decimate) didn’t translate well.

I managed to at least “compensate” for the problem by skipping the pulldown removal and doing a straight forward encoding via Handbrake to a constant framerate of 23,976 FPS whilst performing Deinterlacing on all images (Decombing with EEDI2 Bob) and the results are better (still slight motion stutter, but not as bad as before). The Smart Deinterlacing from Handbrake I employed before unfortunately made things worse, since only the “effected” images were deinterlaced, causing more intense stutter there for some reason. With all images deinterlaced/decombed, things are looking up.

Unfortunately that means to re-encode all over. Sorry guys, I guess one can only judge once having seen the complete episode.

But I will keep at it and won’t let you down.

Now excuse me. I will have a little break treating myself to a personal re-run of VOY’s Macrocosm and watch Janeway get her Lara Croft on and kick some arse … I need to see someone venting some anger issues, otherwise I would probably beat up something for having to do things over.

I’ll keep you informed.