2017-06-07, 08:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 2017-06-07, 09:00 PM by nightstalkerpoet.)
Fair enough, had to try 
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2017-06-08, 06:27 AM
Checked the temp file twice; one with normal display setting, and it *seemed* OK; second time I cropped just the corner with the logo (zoom 4x) and increased backlight at max, and boosted a lot brightness; in this latter case, I noted that some residual parts of the logo are still there...
 So, I worked all night to get rid of them, refinining masks, trying new combinations, inventing new workarounds... long story short, the latest (this time I frankly hope it is) temp clip is encoding, I'll test it in few hours when ready. Luckily this trouble lead me to a new way to get even more quality out of the available sources in most occasions!  Some examples later, after the last test viewing... Thanks given by: nightstalkerpoet
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2017-06-09, 09:27 AM
Any time I solve a problem, two more ones are found... I spent about two hours to find why the masks didn't work anymore... it was a mere 0 (zero, null, nada) in front of a one - I wrongly used mask01 instead of mask1...
 Don't want to say I finally solved everything, not until I watched the whole movie, finally rendered... I'll report here only when result will be great, and not "good enough"... what I can say is I waste three hours to fix a shot, to discover that it was NOT an open matte one... but luckily I've found a way to recover two other shots, for a total of almost a minute; for one, I used the blu-ray to get a good mask to wipe out logo, for the other I recovered a fade out, and slowed down the last second to fill the gap - should be pass unnoticed, or I'll slow down a second of the next shot. All in all, a lot of work, but a lot of ingenious solutions found, knowledge that would be useful for future projects. OperatorIV kindly recorded HP 3 and 4; the first would be used as second source; both as guidelines for extended editions and, most important, for their 5.1 audio tracks.
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2017-06-09, 04:08 PM
There should be a curse on this seventh chapter... now, a blackout occured during the encoding - and yes, I have not an UPS
- so currently recovering first part, and would encode the second right after it... need a positive spell here! 
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2017-06-09, 05:44 PM
(2017-06-09, 04:45 PM)Chewtobacca Wrote: That sounds like one of my bad-code days. You know, with a 29KB avisynth script (that seems small, but think it as 29000+ characters, more or less almost all typed) and almost thousand lines a missing "0" could happen... this is really a monster script!By the way, result file is broken beyond repair, so I've started from scratch, dividing the task in three pieces - and no, no parallel encoding this time, too much scriptclip function to clone to avoid interferences with each other...
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2017-06-09, 06:07 PM
That is quite long. I managed 367 lines in a script that was pure editing. (All the color work was handled in separate scripts, so I don't know what the grand total was.)
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2017-06-09, 07:27 PM
I should admit that most of the lines are purely trims - more than 700 (one per line) ... but have been wrote one by one, with much love!
OK, it's confirmed, HP 7 open matte project has been cursed! This time encoding stuck at around 22000frames; at least, they seems all fine, so more than 10% is done! Encoding (slowly) continues... meanwhile, HP 3 is downloading.
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2017-06-10, 02:28 AM
HP 7:
confirmed, this episode project is cursed... really! Well, the whole script, when watched via virtualdub, is perfect... the various parts I made are not! Some shots with logo pop out, while others work well... the only thing I could think about is the script is to heavy that, while encoding, some functions/filters are interfering... so, instead of just trim out the parts at the end, now I deleted completely call to functions that will not be used for any part, so *maybe* this would work... HP 3: slowly download, thanks to mega limits... HP 5: put in sync the HDTV capture with the WEBdl; increase in details is less evident than using two HDTV captures, due to the fact that WEBdl quality is better; still, final result is better anyway than the single source, so I'm happy with it; I don't remotely think to even render a test clip, I'd like to leave HP 7 rendering "alone" this time!
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2017-06-12, 03:18 AM
HP 7 FINALLY COMPLETED!  The curse is broken, finally! The result now is perfect - I can't find some residual logo, even if I'm aware where it can be, spatially and temporally, as I've watched the open matte shots at least ten times this week! HP 8: Tomorrow I'll start to work on that; I cannot say it would be easy, as another curse could occur... Edit: HP 3 second source is in the vault - thanks to OperatorIV! |
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