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If you encode videos (e.g. burning in subtitles, not cutting at keyframes, frame interpolation, deinterlacing) with lossless formats, does that mean the result will also be lossless?
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It would be lossless compared to the filtered output - ie. there would be no compression losses .
But it would not be considered lossless compared to the original because of the hardcoded subs. Also, the deinterlacing - would need to retain the original fields (some deinterlacers have an option to retain original fields but the temporal visual quality is usually worse), and the interpolation would need to retain every original frame among the interpolated ones. An encode is considered lossless compared to the original, only if you are able to get the original uncompressed data back
Cutting on keyframes is irrelevant when you re-encode directly through an avs or vpy script, because the video is decompressed to uncompressed (every frame is an I frame) before recompression -
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No , it would be deinterlaced, but the original fields would be kept in double rate (bob) mode
This means you could discard the interpolated fields, and get back the original fields, and thus the original uncompressed interlaced video if you used lossless encoding (and didn't do other stuff like hardcoding)
Lossless deinterlacing mode with something like QTGMC usually looks much worse - more flicker and temporal inconsistencies. Yadif is considered a lossless deinterlacer in double rate mode, because it retains the original fields - but the yadif deinterlacing quality is low with many artifacts and flicker -
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In general, QTGMC's non lossless mode "looks" better and is smoother . But it depends on what scenario this is for, what criteria you are using
Normally you would double rate deinterlace (bob) always, otherwise you lose 1/2 the temporal samples, and motion would be less smooth
Test them out and see what works better for your scenario -
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People have different perceptions and measurements for "quality" .
If you want the same "quality" as the original, don't do anything. Use the original , or a copy of the original. Filesize will be much smaller too if it used lossy compression. You should always keep the originals anyways - maybe some better deinterlacer comes out in the future. Some machine learning deinterlacers
You would have to do some tests and adjust the settings for each specific video
If you use the same settings for every video, you definitely won't get the "best quality" in every case - no matter how you're defining "quality" . You wouldn't necessarily use the same settings for different genres and sources . -
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Not sure if there is a GUI, but you can create batch scripts, batch encodes with CLI tools - there are many forum posts on that topic, you can use search
Different sources require different settings and filters . "Default" anything must be customized to your specific source, otherwise you won't get ideal results
eg. QTGMC default settings might be appropriate for a SD , soft, lower quality, slightly noisy source.
But those same settings would oversharpen and excessive remove excessive details for a "clean" HD source -
In general, QTGMC's non lossless mode "looks" better and is smoother . But it depends on what scenario this is for, what criteria you are using
You would have to do some tests and adjust the settings for each specific video
If you want the same "quality" as the original, don't do anything. -
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