-I think I should point out that this is just the color-correction portion. To encode to mp4, currently (until I update the guide) you need to save it as a raw avi and run it through an encoder like handbrake. It's easy to save out clips from this to avi and use in AMVs if you want, though. I'm going to try to write an addenum to the guide showing you you can turn your vcf file into an avs file that applies all the corrections.
-Marc: This isn't as process-intensive as you'd think. It takes about a half hour to an an hour to encode an episode in x264, and scrubbing the color corrections through AVIsynth into Virtualdub can be done on the fly. Most current-gen desktop PCs with a couple of gigs of ran can handle this with no issue; in terms of tools this is not an intensive process. There should especially be no issue if people want to use this to fix the video colors for AMVs by pulling clips out, etc. Definitely, though, it's not for the faint of heart.
-People generally use Transcoding to refer to on-the-fly lossy conversion for immediate playback on other devices. Generally Transcoded files are junked immediately after they're played or kept for quick access on media servers. The key is that it's re-encoded fast enough for the other device to keep up with it in close to real-time. 'Re-encoding' I suppose is a better term for what people are doing in Handbrake. In fact, I would say transcoding could be more detrimental to a computer in ways, because if you watch a movie repeatedly on a media server that doesn't cache and constantly transcodes, it's just re-encoding the file a lot.
-jpdbzrulz4sure: I think you have a good basis, though the colors seem a bit more subdued than they should? Keep experimenting!
There's no actual brightness change commited; though. The yellows are just returned closer to the grey values to what they were originally, especially since you work by pulling the highest color value from the group.bkev wrote:Your corrections look just a bit bright, to me... look at the shot of Trunks swimming. It almost looks like the whites are crushed there. That said, this is a quite in-depth guide and I'm impressed by your work.
I do a whole slew of graphic design related stuff professionally, so I would say I have a good grasp on color theory and knowing that world helped me figure this out. I also do quite a bit of video related stuff for my job, but I'm not a telecine colorist nor a trained expert or anything. All this stuff I figured out on my own by necessity for work or from being just a bit OCD.FindKenshi wrote:I am so impressed. Ashura do you have formal education and training in this stuff? Like, is it part of your profession? Or is this your side hobby? Either way, you can produce these remarkable results... I think it was a very big eye opener, and the picture you chose to showcase as the title example: Trunks in his time machine, one can clearly see what a big difference the correction makes.
Part of me also wanted to challenge the idea that floats around here that you can't do professional level work with consumer level tools.
The other thing is that, I've seen people complain so much about the colors of the Dragonbox here without actually looking into what's actually wrong with them. Talking about that instead of just complaining, and trying to see what it would take to fix them is something I figured might be a a more interesting topic than a lot of the complaint topics Jawdrahb was mentioning.