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Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

We should really have a bolded "dont avisource an avs file, use import instead" message in the op somewhere.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 03:33

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 23:44

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

TaurusOxford posted:

Yes it did. I had both the program and the PS3 set to 720p.

But what's the framerate? 59.94?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 22:54

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Nidoking posted:

Something that often works for me is transcoding to Lagarith with uncompressed audio, which will generate a HUGE file but should give you a lossless copy of the final product you want, then transcoding from that to your desired format. If it's something weird about how it's reading the Avisynth script, that may fix it. The other obvious suggestion is to try MeGUI for your H.264 encoding. I don't know anything about VDub having the capacity to encode in H.264, so that may well be the problem.

This concept had never actually occured to me before so I've installed the Video For Windows version of h.264 and I'm testing a render with Virtualdub vs a render in MeGUI with the same settings to see if there's any differences.

Mico fucked around with this message at May 23, 2012 around 03:28

# ¿ May 23, 2012 03:24

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

The videos look identical, although the one vdub gave me is nearly triple the size of the one MeGUI gave me. With a CRF setting of 20 and slow, I was given a 230MB file by MeGUI and a 590MB file by VirtualDub.

But yeah both the videos work in MPC and VLC, so I'm not sure what's causing Magnetic North's problem.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 04:50

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

If we're throwing out headset recommendations, I can recommend some that I've used, although they're 3.5mm jack ones and not USB.

The first is the Koss SB45, which is really comfortable and worked really well until I dropped it and the left earpiece snapped off. It even worked pretty well after that with some tape but then it became really uncomfortable.

I'm currently using the Yapster TM-YW100A and it's just as comfortable and the sound quality is great but the added bonuses are that the microphone is actually adjustable, has an in cord volume control and mute button, and just overall seems to be sturdier.

# ¿ May 25, 2012 00:08

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

CRF works perfectly fine. A setting of CRF, 20, and Slow makes videos that are indistinguishable for ones where I manually set the bitrate to an overkill number aside from the filesize.

# ¿ May 28, 2012 10:11

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Unless you intentionally blend the frames but that's a bad idea no matter how you slice it.

# ¿ May 30, 2012 00:48

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Kuvo posted:

It's been discussed here that blip has started making it difficult for people to download the original .mp4 files so I was thinking of hosting the .mp4s using something like mediafire or megaupload. Unfortunately, I haven't used many those sites in the past to know which ones are good. I'm looking for one that can host ~300mb files and offer good download speeds to non-registered users. I don't mind paying for such a services as long as it's fairly cheep.

Any suggestions?

Honestly if you're willing to shell out money for it, I'd say upgrade whatever hosting plan the t40's website has for more storage space and bandwidth. That way you don't have to worry about the videos being deleted for inactivity or whatever.

# ¿ May 31, 2012 07:59

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

MoonwalkInvincible posted:

So, since I've been loving around making a few videos for the Dark Souls wiki, I figure I might as well try to get some video quality advice here before I start trying to record for an LP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww_VKM2hkmw

Does anyone know a way I might be able to improve on this video quality?

I'm recording on an SD capture card (Dazzle DVC100) using S-video, and upsizing it to 720 in the hopes that youtube won't poo poo all over it. Deinterlacing as it records though a Vdub filter using Yadif. Encoded with x264 at 4000 bitrate (2pass). Currently my entire avisynth script looks like this:
code:
AviSource("D:\Dark Souls\Raw\demonspear-raw.avi")
Lanczos4Resize(1080,720)
ConvertToYV12()
So, yeah, I'm sure there's room for improvement, but I don't know enough about the tech stuff to know where or how. Any input would be appreciated.

Right off the bat, your aspect ratio is hosed. It looks like your video is intended to be 16:9 which would be 1280 by 720, not 1080 by 720.

Other than that, are you splitting the signal anywhere on the line? Are you playing directly from virtualdub while capturing, or is there a splitter sending it to the TV because that causes a HUGE quality hit.

Also from personal experience, so does leaving a Composite plug hooked up to a dazzle when you're recording from S-video. I never figured out why this was, but unplugging it always improved the image quality a bunch.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2012 20:04

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

It doesn't look fantastic or anything, but that's probably the best you're gonna get out of S-Video

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 02:56

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Yeah setting 3 seems to be the best by far.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 07:59

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Suspicious Dish posted:

Is there a way to upscale the Xsplit preview window? My AverMedia card doesn't have a passthrough (it has no lag as well, so it doesn't need one). Xsplit can read it fine, but I get this tiny preview window to play in. Trying to use the AverMedia software and Xsplit at the same time leads to disaster, and completely wrecks audio.

No, the max size is 100 percent. You can scale it DOWN from there, but not up.

I suppose you could use Windows Magnifier as a workaround.

Mico fucked around with this message at Jun 9, 2012 around 23:09

# ¿ Jun 9, 2012 23:05

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Longhouse posted:

Quoting myself from a few pages back. Anyone have some other method that has worked wonders for you? Also, a question about the 3-step method, just in case I haven't done it properly. I tried it in Audacity, and when I resample the clip I don't find an option for only adjusting the resample rate (and not actually resampling). Does this matter?

Are you using Aligned or Unaligned splice?

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 20:41

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Xenoveritas posted:

But that might make him uncomfortable. And then he might not finish his LP. And that would be disastrous.

But enough on that subject.

At some point, I think supergreatfriend mentioned using FRAPS to record the preview window in VirtualDub for the AverMedia card. Normally I'd agree with SuspiciousDish that you should just use the built-in record feature, but given how bad the quality it generates is, and its tendency to drop frames, I can't help but think FRAPS-ing VirtualDub isn't in fact a better idea. Assuming you have the disk space.

I have the opposite problem in that the Avermedia software is the only thing that won't drop frames during recording. And so long as I turn the quality way the gently caress up the video looks fine.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 21:00

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

The PCI-e Avermedia HD DVR has both SD and HD hookups, although I know it won't work for stuff that's n64 or earlier for the same reasons the HD PVR can't.

Although unlike toddy's experience with the Colossus, I've actually gotten my Avermedia to work with 480i and 480p sources just fine.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2012 22:06

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Did you remember to input your lpix login info into rightload?

# ¿ Jun 27, 2012 08:08

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Wait, that's in the fraps directory?

Why are you indexing a fraps avi file?

Alternately if it is a codec thing reinstallng MPC isn't gonna do poo poo. If you don't have the Combined Community Codec Pack on that computer, install it.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 06:44

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

I thought textsub required LoadCPlugin instead of just plain LoadPlugin but I might be thinking of something else.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2012 04:09

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

I just wanna throw out there that I have literally no idea how to do ANYTHING in Premiere and that I've been secretly hoping for a tutorial to pop up one of these days.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2012 00:28

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

kidcoelacanth posted:

Well, this is what I'm seeing:

I figure there should be some option for Realtek Speakers or the like but ???

Make sure your sound card drivers are properly installed. If they're not, devices will be totally missing from lists and stuff.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2012 02:11

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Explosionface posted:

Here you go

The Opera and Firefox version are also available from here http://polsy.org.uk/play/

# ¿ Jul 9, 2012 07:05

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Fun fact: if you turn it on your video will give you motion sickness.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 00:59

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

HelloWinter posted:

Heh, that's really too bad.

How does Youtube fix a problem like camera shakiness, anyway? I'm rather curious, but this is probably way off-topic.

I have a Ys video I did for toddy's thread that came up that way. I could record the preview of what it wants to do and post it.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 01:08

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Also speaking of youtube, how long does it generally take them to resolve copyright disputes? One of my Mario Galaxy videos got flagged by the autodetect for a lovely dubstep song that is not actually in my video, and two weeks later it's still pending.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 01:10

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Niggurath posted:

I think you should be able to click on a dispute now and it'll tell you how long it has for the holder to respond. It usually seems like a month for me at least.

Yeah, it says Awaiting Response by 7/31 but I'm impatient because in the meantime I can't do unlisted videos because it counts as a copyright strike.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 01:52

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

BioEnchanted posted:

Well, to be honest, I've never really like how my voice sounds regardless, especially with a mike as cheap as this one. I've tried recording before, and may do again, but I'm still to nervous. I'll need to get used to recording my voice before doing an LP with it.

I hated the sound of my own voice for the longest time. Then after some practice at this commentary thing I realized that just something as simple as speaking with confidence can make a huge difference in how you sound.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2012 09:25

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Lance Streetman posted:

Is it possible to record the space in-between the screens using DeSmuME?

Coincidentally there was just a huge argument about this in the 20 years of sonic thread!
Flea posted the solution which is here

# ¿ Jul 19, 2012 03:15

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

I just make sure the microphone and computer audio outputs are both checked (those two meters below the preview window on xsplit.) and I don't really have to do anything else.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2012 22:13

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

PoshAlligator posted:

Hey,

so ivantod suggested I edit my LP's size from 320x200 -> 640x400 with NN -> 640x480 with resampling.

He said to use this with avisynth:

"yourVideo.PointResize(640,400).LanczosResize(640,480)"

I'm using Vegas, though. Is there a simple way to do that using Vegas, too?

Nope!

Since Vegas is a piece of trash, the only way I know of to make this actually work would be to take your original video, resize it in Vegas (while remembering to turn off resampling), rendering that, then taking your new video, resizing it and remembering to turn resampling back on, then rendering it again.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2012 19:52

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Youtube has decided to gently caress off with the 480p conversion for my latest video. I remember hearing about this happening a while back and I haven't made a video for a while, has anyone worked out a way to force it to actually convert my 856x480 video to 480p other than just reuploading and crossing your fingers?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2012 08:43

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

cKnoor posted:

What container are you using for your video? I switched over to mkv a while back and have no had any such issue since then. Try that if you're using mp4.

Yeah I'm using mp4, I'll give mkv a shot and see how that goes.

e: It works!

As a side note does blip actually know what to do with an mkv, it seems pretty much impossible to find a list of filetypes they support.

Mico fucked around with this message at Jul 31, 2012 around 12:56

# ¿ Jul 31, 2012 10:39

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

I don't see any interlacing in this video, so what do you mean when you say it's not doing anything?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2012 22:42

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Niggurath posted:

So is that not interlacing? Really it's noticeable when the character is turning or in screen transitions, but is it really not that noticeable?

Could you post up the original so I can take a look?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2012 01:42

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Well Yadif definitely made it less interlaced but I see what you mean about it not doing a whole lot.

I noticed that in your post you said you were using PCSX2. It's been a very long time since I attempted PS2 emulation since my computer isn't nearly good enough for it, but there's no way to just have it output progressive scan or anything?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2012 02:19

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Niggurath posted:

Hooray for double posting, but another thought struck me. Could Youtube be doing something to make the quality of these videos look worse? So I decided to try uploading another video to both Youtube and Blip, and really the Blip one came out looking a lot clearer and nicer:

Blip version

Youtube version

Any ideas why it might be getting the downgrade on Youtube, cause I usually don't get that kind of problem on there.

Youtube hosed up for me the other day and decided it wasn't going to do a 480p conversion, but then I followed cknoor's advice and set MeGUI to output an mkv instead of an mp4 and what do you know, not only did it do the 480p conversion, it seemed much clearer than usual when it did.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2012 05:42

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

That's a knockoff easycap. Don't bother with it.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2012 11:41

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Is your encoding speed set to slow? If it's normal it hugely affects filesize.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2012 04:06

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

I've been having audio desync issues with my capture card lately, and I'm trying to write a function to automatically fix it. It's gradual desync, fine at the start but off by a few seconds at the end, meaning the last couple of seconds of the video have no audio at all.

I found this on the avisynth wiki:

code:

#Positive value stretches audio, negative value shrinks audio. Value in milliseconds.
stretch=-300
#Do not change the line below.
TimeStretch(tempo=(last.AudioLengthF/(last.AudioLengthF+(stretch*(last.audiorate/1000)))*100))

and it seems like what I need, but I'm hoping to find a way to have avisynth determine the difference in milliseconds between the audio and video rather than me attempting to figure it out, that way I can just load up the function and move on to editing.

Anyone got any ideas? Everything for video is frames and everything for audio is samples and, well, I have no idea what to do from there.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 02:44

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Admiral H. Curtiss posted:

Completely guessing here, but try something like:
code:
secondsaudio =  AudioLength(audio)/float(AudioRate(audio))
secondsvideo = framecount(video)/float(framerate(video))
diffms = (secondsvideo - secondsaudio) * 1000
And then either stretch = diffms or stretch = -diffms

Thank you so much!

As of right now this is what my script looks like, I'll work on converting it to a function later and post it so as to help others.

code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Codecs\ffms2.dll")

ffindex("lava.mp4")
v= ffvideosource("lava.mp4")
a= ffaudiosource("lava.mp4")
vid= Audiodub(v,a)

secondsaudio =  AudioLength(vid)/float(AudioRate(vid))
secondsvideo = framecount(vid)/float(framerate(vid))
diffms = (secondsvideo - secondsaudio) * 1000

#Positive value stretches audio, negative value shrinks audio. Value in milliseconds.
stretch= diffms

#Do not change the line below.
vid.TimeStretch(tempo=(a.AudioLengthF/(a.AudioLengthF+(stretch*(a.audiorate/1000)))*100))

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 04:09

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 23:44

Mico: Jan 28, 2011; I call it Meowthstep.

Here is the function

I dunno if it'll still work if the audio is longer than the video but I can only assume that it will.

code:

function FixDesync(clip c)
{
secondsaudio =  AudioLength(c)/float(AudioRate(c))
secondsvideo = framecount(c)/float(framerate(c))
diffms = (secondsvideo - secondsaudio) * 1000
stretch= diffms
c.TimeStretch(tempo=(c.AudioLengthF/(c.AudioLengthF+(stretch*(c.audiorate/1000)))*100))
}

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 04:41

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