procoder effect in cce

[45tripp]

hi,

I'd like to recreate the procoder effect in cce (or any other encoder).
I'm not sure where to start, so I thought I'd ask for some opinions before I smack my head up against a wall too many times trying to approximate the effect with blind trial and error.
Anybody tried it before?
Any ideas which filters would be required?

ty

[ozymango]

Um ... I use Procoder a lot and ... what's the "Procoder effect"?

[45tripp]

Um ... I use Procoder a lot and ... what's the "Procoder effect"?

If I could accurately describe it, it would be easier to reproduce

Basically it bastardises your source without any input from you. But the change is often found attractive by many (I gather) and is perfectly acceptable.
I'd say there's a small degree of smoothing and some heavier brightness/contrast changes.
The contrast ratio is higher than source I'd say.
To me I see loss of background/smaller detail, less blur in foreground, which makes the images appear clearer, when in fact they've lost detail.

I don't really know. 8)

[ozymango]

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Basically it bastardises your source without any input from you. But the change is often found attractive by many (I gather) and is perfectly acceptable.

I get it now!!! And it's soon to be a major motion picture starring Keanu Reaves!!!

:P :P :P :P :P :P

[45tripp]

Any ideas would be welcome.


p.s
I Keanu

[lordsmurf]

My Procoder 2 used to be fine, but now it does this too, makes video dark. Still not soft. No idea WTF happened. Few weird things happened when I moved my computers. Don't think I changed anything, but cannot promise.

I've switched to MainConcept for now, and just give it more bitrate. Works fine.