Best way to experiment

[demonwarrior]

whats the best way to experiment with virtualdub and the filters,and also whats the best filter chain to use

[redwudz]

Use a filter, then 'Preview filtered' in the 'File' menu to see the effects. Best filter chain for what?

[demonwarrior]

is it better to make short clips of the file?and best filter chain for cleaning,noise removal and restoration

[guns1inger]

There is no 'best'. Every situation requires it's own solution. What that is varies from tape to tape, and also person to person. Personally, I prefer avisynth for most restoration work, although the virtualdub filter colormill is very handy.

[demonwarrior]

so where can i get the colormill filter?and do you know of any good sites for virualdub filters?

[mats.hogberg]

VirtualDub filters: http://neuron2.net/

/Mats

[demonwarrior]

i had a look but no colormill filter

[mats.hogberg]

Color Mill: http://fdump.narod.ru/
Google is your friend.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic320968.html?highlight=colormill

[demonwarrior]

is it better to cut a small clip from the movie and experiment with that?

[Abond]

Not always (in general it is not better). Then you can imagine that you cut a small clip which represents more day scenes and after reencoding all the movie you can not see anything in the night (dark) scenes.
It is very hard work in fact. Once I have recorded a movie that I liked very much and spend a week trying every other setting of a filter chain. After that the reencoding took almost two days and at the end I could see a flaws in the picture. So... you need patience (a LOT of patience).

[demonwarrior]

do u think is better to do filtering on an uncompressed source?an my other problem is the source is not the original source

[lordsmurf]

I just use the preview window. Encode a test clip of 1 minute if I need to, during a scene where I suspect there might be issues.

[demonwarrior]

well it seems my experimenting is paying off a little anway lordsmurf please read my other posting i'm waiting for your feedback

[demonwarrior]

is it good or bad to use more than one denoiser in the filter chain?

[guns1inger]

If it is required and it works, it is good. If it does damage, it is bad. There are different types of noise, and different filters to deal with them, so it is not uncommon to use a mixture of temporal noise filters and 2d noise filters as required.

[lordsmurf]

PM me a specific post link if you need something.
I don't know what other posting you're referring to.