Tf2 video compression check

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SharekhaN

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Hi people ,

I am making a small TF2 video.
this is just a test video clip 14 seconds long.
I wanted people to take a look and see if they see any artifacts or thing that sticks out as ugly or any issues.

the video is compressed using x264 . its in 720p.

soldier.mkv

please leave comments :)
 
i know you know your shit about encoding but don't you think 14 seconds is way too short to test anything out? i personally wouldn't use anything less than a minute... especially if it's 2 pass. there are no visible artifacts on this clip but i'd try to get it to look smoother. i see you've used 29.97 fps as the framerate. did you capture screenshots at 30?

also like montylee said, some brightness/contrast and saturation would make it look better.
 
I did capture it at 30 seconds. The problem i am facing now is when encoders other than virtualdub throw back a colorspace issue. I tried changing it but it becomes over saturated. This on the other hand was compressed directly from the tga source.

infact all other tf2 videos of this i have seen so far seem shyt , even the x264 ones, and nothing compared to the xvid ones that you , ashr have done.

ashr, its been quite some time that i have been in the scene. Let me know when you are available on msn and if at all you could help me a bit on this project i am trying to work on.

Thanks.
 
my msn is always on but im at work during the day. you could probably catch me on from 9:30 to about 10:30 pm... after that i start my dota lol. but i'll message you soon.

i myself haven't encoded anything in AGES and i imagine x.264 has made a lot of progress since when i played around with it. however, try to get some motion blur in while capturing itself. this helps a lot for compression on game videos. you can do this by capturing at about 4 times the final framerate or higher. i personally always capture at 200 in game if i'm making a 25 or 30fps video. of course, it does take much longer but it looks nicer and is a massive benefit when it comes to compressing at the end. what software are you using to edit? i know sony vegas can resample all those screenshots into 25 or 30 fps to create a nice motion blur effect.
 
It's a little bit of a learning curve, but you can get quite a lot of control using avisynth and filters, this requires a small amount knowledge of the avisynth scripting which is not too hard to pick up and does a great job. you can also combine the use of virtualdub and avisynth by setting up virtualdub to accept avisynth script files. Start off at Doom9 Forums, AviSynth Main Page, and The Wiki but google will bring up tons of information, as there is a lot of help out there to be had.

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