I got VirtualDub working, Sort of.

[macmac15]

Well i finnly got everything loaded that I needed to have loaded on my computer to get my DV capture to load up into VirtualDub. I decided that I'm going to recode my DVAVI files into DIVX. Got that all working thanks to all the help files here.

But the file sizes are ending up alot bigger then I had hoped. About 100meg for 10minutes.

Now I know playing with the Bitrate will decrease the size of the files, but with that obviously you lose good picture quality.

I have played with some of the filters but I have not had much luck.

My current bitrate is set at about 1500, With that I'm getting a great picture, the way that I want it. The original source is from a VCR, and there is a it of noise but with this Bitrate it seems to take care of most of this.

If anyone knows a good filter combination, along with a lower bitrate that would work, could you please post it here. I have about 100 hours of video that I need to capture in about 3 monthes to take with me to Kosovo, so any help in expediating this process, would be great.

[snowmoon]

Home video is the worst for encoding for several reasons...

1) noise
2) Jitters
3) Usually low end equipment.

Unfortunatly DIVX really shines on clean materal, not noisy materal.

In AVIsynth I would use a filter like the following..

#GuavaComb(mode="NTSC")

FluxSmooth(spatial_threshold=6,temporal_threshold= 10)

#SeparateFields()
even = SelectEven().PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 38, Stability = 20, Spatial = 120) #, ShowMotion = TRUE ) #Readout = TRUE)
odd = SelectOdd().PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 38, Stability = 20, Spatial = 120) #, ShowMotion = TRUE ) #Readout = TRUE)

Interleave(even,odd).Weave()


Flux and Peach are a real 1-2 punch for most video noise without tending to smear or ghost the image. Flux just identifies and stabilized pixels that are bouncing back and forth. Peach takes the image and classifies it into moving and non-moving and then applies temporal and spatial stability based on that.

Question: I didn't know VirtualDUB could capture DV input.... you're not just decoding and then re-encoding the DV stream are you?

[FOO]

I couln't do it until I installed the Panasonic DV codec.
works good

[macmac15]

I'm capturing in Premier and then running my conversions in VDUB using the Panasonic DV CODEC.

I will have to take a look at these apps that you have listed thanks.

[macmac15]

Man and i thought that Video editing would be a fun and relaxing hobby.

OK So I downloaded and installed AVISYNTH, and the filters that you suggested.

I'm not sure if I did this right, but I placed the DLL files for the filters in the filter folder that was under the installed directory for AVISYNTH. Is there anything else that needs to be done to install these filters?

The next thing that I did was try and create a script. Below is my script.

You will see one line that is bold. This is because I recive an error, about RBG conversion or something, and my research said I needed to add that line. So I added it, and it seemed to load,

Now I'm loading this script into VDUB, but when I play the file the video is all messed up. I guess I'm just not sure what to do with this file now.

Do I just load it into VDUB, and then can I from there set my V/A Comperssion, and then Save out AVI file??

AVIFileSource("C:\Non Converted Movies\Jag 4-19 The Adversaries.avi")
#GuavaComb(mode="NTSC")
ConvertToYUY2()
FluxSmooth(spatial_threshold=6,temporal_threshold= 10)

#SeparateFields()
even = SelectEven().PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 38, Stability = 20, Spatial = 120) #, ShowMotion = TRUE ) #Readout = TRUE)
odd = SelectOdd().PeachSmoother(NoiseReduction = 38, Stability = 20, Spatial = 120) #, ShowMotion = TRUE ) #Readout = TRUE)

Interleave(even,odd).Weave()