{"id":13,"date":"2008-05-04T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T07:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uppcon.se\/thefluff\/hurfdurf\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-05-04T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T07:44:55","slug":"some-protips-for-aspiring-elitist-encoders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Some protips for aspiring elitist encoders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post caused by recent events in my immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No matter what filters you used, you&#8217;ve overfiltered it. Almost all new encoders invariably make this mistake. Don&#8217;t be one of them.<\/li>\n<li>VFR isn&#8217;t as complicated as it seems and you would do well to learn how to use it to your advantage.<\/li>\n<li>Be very careful with frequency-domain smoothing filters, they kill a lot of background detail if you aren&#8217;t careful.<\/li>\n<li>Related to the above, STOP FUCKING BLURRING EVERYTHING. It doesn&#8217;t look good, it doesn&#8217;t solve any problems, the source probably isn&#8217;t that noisy to begin with. Don&#8217;t do it. Yes I know some people say &#8220;controlled blur isn&#8217;t a bad thing&#8221; or whatever the fuck, I don&#8217;t care, they&#8217;re dumb. It might have been true to a certain extent when everyone had to use XviD or Divx3 for everything but it sure as fuck isn&#8217;t anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget your chapter points. They&#8217;re very convenient and are easy to include, and not including them makes people complain about you on the internet, and you wouldn&#8217;t want that to happen, would you?<\/li>\n<li>Slower doesn&#8217;t automatically mean better. (Yes, trellis=2 and me=esa users, this means you.)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let people convince you to hardsub shit just because. Hardsubbing is gay, doing it makes you look dumb.<\/li>\n<li>Related to the above: karaoke, credits translations, fansub credits, &#8220;ego screens&#8221;, intrusive group logos, watermarking etc etc are all gay and retarded, and you should go to all possible effort to make sure you don&#8217;t have to include them in your encode.\n<li>\n<li>If you have to include karaoke, don&#8217;t wait for lazy timers to shift karaoke for you; Real Encoders shift karaoke with Avisynth.<\/li>\n<li>JESUS FUCK STOP WARPSHARPING EVERYTHING TO SHIT, IT ISN&#8217;T FUNNY, DOES NOT LOOK GOOD, GIVES YOU AIDS AND MAKES OTHER PEOPLE GET EYE CANCER.<\/li>\n<li>A limited amount of grain can be pretty useful to keep on clean sources.<\/li>\n<li>When picking TV raws, you should usually use the one with the most detail, unless it has extreme flaws. It is to a certain extent possible to filter away noise, blocking, aliasing or halos, but you can&#8217;t recover lost detail.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid of overcropping slightly and resizing back up to the desired resolution; it can let you use the resizer as a pseudo-sharpener and noone cares about a few pixels anyway. Overcropping is better than undercropping, black borders\/border noise is bad for you.<\/li>\n<li>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/lipas.uwasa.fi\/~f76998\/video\/conversion\/\">http:\/\/lipas.uwasa.fi\/~f76998\/video\/conversion\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t fuck around with the color balance unless you really have to.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t encode 60fps segments as 60fps, because they aren&#8217;t 60 frames per second. Decimate to 29.97.<\/li>\n<li>Sharpening might look attractive at a glance but don&#8217;t overdo it, because oversharpening looks really fucking annoying. See the first point in this list.<\/li>\n<li>Transport streams are serious fucking business and you should treat them with respect. Learn to IVTC, nub!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post caused by recent events in my immediate surroundings. No matter what filters you used, you&#8217;ve overfiltered it. Almost all new encoders invariably make this mistake. Don&#8217;t be one of them. VFR isn&#8217;t as complicated as it seems and you would do well to learn how to use it to your advantage. 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