GOUT image stabilization - Released — Page 20

OK so I have FINALLY got my new PC done and am taking a break from EVERYTHING else to do all 3 of these movies,I want to encode all 3 movies with G-force's script and replace the original video in the retail DVD's with this new video,while keeping the entire DVD structure and extra's.

but in my effort to get everything back the way it was,now I am hitting damn snags,I feel like a damn newbie again trying to fiddle fuk with these damn avisynth filters,well here is the error I am getting now,does anyone know what this means?

dark_jedi said:

well here is the error I am getting now,does anyone know what this means?

Oh no, I can't see the picture on my work PC, because my company blocks so much content. Can you tell me what it says?

-G

it says this,

Avisynth open failure:
FFT3DFilter: bt must be -1(sharpen), 0(kalman), 1,2,3,4(wiener)
(D:\Star Wars GForce.avs, line 26)

so it is line 26 of the script,I can't see what is wrong.

Thanks for sharing your time.

pupil said:

But for my purposes, I want square pixels as I will be playing this on my PC monitor. I've finished compressing the video, added the flag to make it 853x368 (56 pixels from the top and bottom of the image cropping the black bars as much as possible) in the mkv and it has come out at exactly the same resolution as the original DVD.

 

Wow, all this 4:3 anamorphic non-square pixels to 16x9 square pixels gets confusing. Glad you figured it out!

-G

dark_jedi said:

it says this,

Avisynth open failure:
FFT3DFilter: bt must be -1(sharpen), 0(kalman), 1,2,3,4(wiener)
(D:\Star Wars GForce.avs, line 26)

so it is line 26 of the script,I can't see what is wrong.

Thanks for sharing your time.

 

I think I changed bt since you tried the script last, and now you need a newer version of FFT3DFilter.

according to the FFT3DFilter version history:

Version 1.9.2 - 11 september 2006 - added mode bt=5

so anything later than 1.9.2 should work.

-G

OK that did it,I am going to add this newer version to the filter pack we did a while back,now to my next error LOL,here it is,

script error: there is no function named "EEDI2"
line 53

this reminds me how much I hate troubleshooting scripts LOL,avisynth is so finicky,but very powerful,so in the long run,definitely worth the time.

OK nevermind that one LOL,I just had to add that filter,DUH!

OK it opens now,so how can I do a sample encode to make sure the greedo subs are OK?

Funny thing,I was going through our old PM's and found this that you said to add to the end of the script,

"Trim(70600,72000)"

this will do the trick.

dark_jedi said:

"EEDI2"

ooh! that means you haven't seen the latest anti-aliasing! Looks better than just NNEDI by itself.

dark_jedi said:

"Trim(70600,72000)"

this will do the trick.

Yep, that'll do it.

-G

g-force, I'm running Jedi through v4 now - I think you might have to add a line in the subtitle section to deal specifically with Empire.  If you remember a while back when I ran ESB through v4 there was always an error; RotJ and ANH do not return an error, and that seems to be the only section that actually references the episode number, and coincidentally, the line only has specific instructions for a value of episode 4 or 6:

########## subtitle stage
episode==4 ? ANH(last,PAL) : episode==6 ? ROTJ(last,PAL) : Nop()

dark_jedi, do you get an error on Empire?  NO biggie, but what do you think?

INv8r_ZIM said:

g-force, I'm running Jedi through v4 now - I think you might have to add a line in the subtitle section to deal specifically with Empire.  If you remember a while back when I ran ESB through v4 there was always an error; RotJ and ANH do not return an error, and that seems to be the only section that actually references the episode number, and coincidentally, the line only has specific instructions for a value of episode 4 or 6:

 

########## subtitle stage
episode==4 ? ANH(last,PAL) : episode==6 ? ROTJ(last,PAL) : Nop()

 

dark_jedi, do you get an error on Empire?  NO biggie, but what do you think?

Not on Empire yet,I am still trying to figure out the best approach on these,and I am also testing different encoders like CCE SP,ProCoder 3,etc.

INv8r_ZIM said:

########## subtitle stage
episode==4 ? ANH(last,PAL) : episode==6 ? ROTJ(last,PAL) : Nop()

I know it works for me. The No-op at the end catches everything that is not 4 or 6. I'm stumped.

-G

pupil said:

G-force, just checking, but are you planning on developing this script any further, especially for ESB and RotJ? Not that I think it's necessary, it's just that I'd rather know before doing 2 more 4day encode-athons for these 2 movies :)

ANH came out perfectly btw, watched it the other night and it looks stunning compared to the GOUT DVD. I'm ripping the selectable Greedo subs off the DVD tonight to add to my mkv file and then it's perfect!

I wish I could encode in 4 days, more like 4 weeks for me.

No, I don't have any plans to develop this further. I've taken it as far as I can.

-G

bkev said:

Hi everyone!  I'm interested in using this script; is there anyone who's smarter than me who can teach me how to use AviSynth, specifically with this script?  I found a tutorial, but it's still gibber-jabber.  Thank you!

PS- if there's a tutorial somewhere in this thread, please forgive me.  Twenty pages is a lot ot sift through.

Also are there any before and after examples to get a qualitative feel of the improvement?

   Also are there any before and after examples to get a qualitative feel of the improvement?

 

Negative1 posted a short clip of ESB for comparison. You can get it here.

The bottom video is the filtered video, the top video is the original, unprocessed GOUT video. Please note: Negative1 used script v. 3.09b; the actual script (v. 4.00) is better than the one used for this one.

Thanks to everyone in this thread (especially G-Force)....  I'm a total n00b at this, but with any luck I'll have ANH done sometime on Friday. 

Ah well, no worries, just another minor mystery :)  Jedi looks pretty damn good, though!  Thanks again for all your work on this script - I know which version of the films I'm going to instroduce to my four-year old!

After waiting several days for my encode to finish, I ended up with a bum disc.  Throughout the movie (ANH) it'll play for 3 or 4 seconds, then back up and repeat those same 3 or 4 seconds before continuing, ad nauseum.

Guess I can try it again...

okay so a bit more information before I spend several more days doing a re-encode

Playing the disc back normally appears to be problem free with the exception that the timer/counter on the DVD player doesn't advance every second.  I can live with that if i have to.

But skipping chapters is what introduces the problem i described earlier where it'll play 3-4 seconds, skip back, play those same 3-4 seconds again followed by the next 3-4 seconds, and repeat ad nauseum.

Skimming thru the movie with fast-forward results in a frozen frame when hitting play.

I did not create a menu, just the base DVD.

Any ideas as to what might be causing this strange behavior?   Thanks in advance...