AutoGK mods

[meldavid]

Hello, would like to know if you know any mods to AutoGK that let me disable RemoveGrain and force a Constant Q=2 for Xvid?

Right now I just use the manual method of using DGIndex, and my set of cropping.resizing .avs presets, and saved VDub Processing Settings. AutoGK would be perfect for me if I could set it with no RemoveGrain and Contant Q=2, so I could do it all automatically.

From experimentation Constant Quality 87% seems to give me close enough file size results with AutoGK compared to my manual encodes. But I have no idea how much the Quantizer changes. I don't really like it changing. Maybe from 2 to 3 is ok. But not higher, unless it's for credits.

So manual is still my preferred method.

[manono]

Hi-

Remove Grain at the setting AutoGK uses does so little (removes some "dots", similarly to Undot), that I don't know why you'd want to remove it. There are 2 3rd party add-ons which allow you to halt the process to edit the .avs:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=100517&highlight=autoGKTweaker
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=79227&highlight=autoGKTweaker

A 1-pass Target Quality encode at 100% uses all quant 2, not taking the B-Frame quants into account.

From experimentation Constant Quality 87% seems to give me close enough file size results with AutoGK compared to my manual encodes. But I have no idea how much the Quantizer changes. I don't really like it changing. Maybe from 2 to 3 is ok. But not higher, unless it's for credits.

At 87% it'll just flip back and forth between quants 2 and 3 (mostly 2's), not taking the B-Frame quants into account.

[meldavid]

I want to disable RemoveGrain to not waste CPU processing time.

I think last time I used 100% constant quality, the file was really big.

Another thing I also like in my manual encode is using 1 B-frame only at Q=3. Any higher than Q=3 then I can notice the difference between adjacent frames, sharp, sharp, sharp, blurry, sharp, sharp, sharp, blurry, etc...

I will give those add-ons a go though to see if they make using AutoGK better for me. Thanks manono!