How to emulate the Video Noise filter in premiere pro on TMPGENC Express 4?

[hanugro]

It's the one when you try to Export to Adobe Media Code in the filters tab (Video Noise filter). It mask the block noise quite nice but it take forever to encode (Can be 30hrs+ for 1hr video on 1 pass using Dual Core AMD X2 3800+). My friend need filter that gave same result but compatible with TMPGENC Express 4. Thanks all. I try using Gaussian Blur then Video Noise reduction on TMPGENC but the result is not as good.

[guns1inger]

Blockiness comes from poorly encoded source. If it is really that bad, I would not be using Premiere (especially if it is taking that long), but would use virtualdub and the msu smart de-blocking filter.

[hanugro]

Thanks mate. I don't really understand this video dub mode work. Can I encode Avi file to mpeg2 using it? Oe do I reencode mpeg2 file using this filter?

[Alex_ander]

The MSU Smart Deblocking is an external plugin, it also works in AviSynth (they provide a template for including in script), TMPGEnc Xpress reads .avs scripts directly. In most cases default settings of their filter are good enough, or you can take parameter values after adjustment in VDub.
As for your question, VDub outputs avi's and can (like AviSynth) frameserve to MPEG encoder , but not to TMPGEnc Xpress. In this case you'd need to create large temporary files.

[hanugro]

OK thanks. Will try to do the avisynth route instead. I do preview with virtual dub but the improvement is not as dramatic as the sample in the website. I can still see faint block especially on skin (maybe hard to fixed?) area. Maybe not noticable when you actually play the video.

Forgot to mention that the block noise mainly come from upscaling the video size to match DVD size of 720x480. Is there any other filter to fix this?

[Alex_ander]

You can try another filter for resizing: in AviSynth you have selectable Lanczos, Lanczos4 and Spline36 (be careful if your video is interlaced, you'll need additional steps/filters to do resizing properly in this case). After deblocking, in Avisynth you can use external FFT3Dfilter with simple setting like (sigma=3) for spacial noise reduction (you'll need to convert from RGB used by all Vdub plugins to YUY2 to use it).
There's some difference in MSU's default settings for Vdub and AviSynth (one of the 0/1 parameters), in Vdub they are more correct, so take them from it for your first test.