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DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
also i'm amazed i didnt get death threats from editors when their two hours of rendering time went down to 15 minutes




the dbumest osx video feature is that you can click on a video when it's an icon in the finder and it will start playing at 10x10 with full audio lol have fun finding that poo poo moron

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pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

uh oh, you better assign a color space profile in your .mp4 files or else iCloud thinks its an SD matrix!

The original file:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1mn 41s
Bit rate : 39.5 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 60.4 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.795
Stream size : 481 MiB (100%)
Title : MOV_0.264#trackID=1:fps=23.976@GPAC0.5.1-DEV-rev4283
Writing library : x264 core 129 r2245 bc13772
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=21.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2013-02-17 16:19:47
Tagged date : UTC 2013-02-17 16:19:49


The file on iCloud:


Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1mn 41s
Source duration : 1mn 41s
Bit rate : 2 854 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.129
Stream size : 34.7 MiB (92%)
Source stream size : 36.3 MiB (96%)
Title : Core Media Video
Encoded date : UTC 2013-09-21 00:45:12
Tagged date : UTC 2013-09-21 00:47:42
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.601



Just so you know, you're supposed to assume rec.709 if there is no color profile metadata set in .mp4. just sayin.

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

im the 39mbps to hold my film grain patternz



it probablly saw my hipster desaturated video and said "yep sd matrix"

good luck uploading any log gamma poo poo to this

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
apple gets to set their own standards

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
and everyone else gets to ignore them

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

spankmeister posted:

i guess it's for non-codecspergs (i.e. "normal" people) so that they can enjoy there video on all theor "i-device".

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
guys this service designed for sharing videos over a cellular connection made my 500mb grainy video of a dog smaller

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Quine Connoisseur posted:

guys this service designed for sharing videos over a cellular connection made my 500mb grainy video of a dog smaller

Film grain in post over a silky smooth digital camera tyvm

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
idc how many movie studios do it, "film grain in post" is still the dumbest thing

Qwertycoatl
Dec 31, 2008

Instant Grat posted:

idc how many movie studios do it, "film grain in post" is still the dumbest thing

back when proper sewers were invented and drinking water didnt have poo poo in it any more, i bet medieval film producers added poo poo to their water because they were used to the taste

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Instant Grat posted:

idc how many movie studios do it, "film grain in post" is still the dumbest thing

is it dumber than removing film grain for the blu-ray rerelease of a classic film

Jeff Goldblum
Dec 3, 2009

Silver Alicorn posted:

is it dumber than removing film grain for the blu-ray rerelease of a classic film

one is restoration, the other is a cliched stylistic choice. these are the same people who render films at 24fps not realizing that the film medium allowed a lot more than a video codec

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE

Silver Alicorn posted:

is it dumber than removing film grain for the blu-ray rerelease of a classic film

carl_weathers_-_wax_doll_-_predator_bluray.png

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

Instant Grat posted:

carl_weathers_-_wax_doll_-_predator_bluray.png

not carl weathers but holy loly



im sure video plebs prefer the left image too

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Detroit Q. Spider posted:

not carl weathers but holy loly



im sure video plebs prefer the left image too

woooooowwwwww

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

film grain is added in post for tons of modern movies. ANything with a 3d model VFX shot basically has grain added on top, unless it's spy kids 3D because it's not so great for 3D.

film grain has a lot of practical applications and cannot be judged by a still.

1) it can unify the scene if you have multiple layers, VFX, or greenscreen.
2) It can increase the appearance of resolution where there is not enough to fill your medium (most optical transfers of film only resolve about 1.2K of resolution when there is at least 2K of resolution to pack in) It explains why that image above looks like it has no detail when it's been denoised.
3) it eliminates banding when you transcode to a 4:2:0 medium like blu-ray/DVD


Also you cant judge it's strength from a still, When you see it in motion at full framerate, it's hardly noticible until you pause it

But nobody watches movies a still at a time, so it's moot saying "look at how bad film grain is!!!!" from a still.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
yes lets add noise in a codec thats fundamentally inept at handling high-frequency data like that

xiph was playing around with a codec that would split out the noise and compress that separately, but it was hard to do the noise detection and removal in real time. worked very well off-line though, but couldn't be used for streaming, so they dropped it.

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

Jeff Goldblum posted:

one is restoration, the other is a cliched stylistic choice. these are the same people who render films at 24fps not realizing that the film medium allowed a lot more than a video codec


Detroit Q. Spider posted:

not carl weathers but holy loly



im sure video plebs prefer the left image too

v nice restoration imo

Qwertycoatl
Dec 31, 2008

Suspicious Dish posted:

yes lets add noise in a codec thats fundamentally inept at handling high-frequency data like that

xiph was playing around with a codec that would split out the noise and compress that separately, but it was hard to do the noise detection and removal in real time. worked very well off-line though, but couldn't be used for streaming, so they dropped it.

theres some support for that in the h264 standard, but its optional and as far as i know basically unused and unsupported (y sei message pos)

Qwertycoatl fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Sep 21, 2013

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
ye film grain should always be a player-side filter

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

the problem is that with a film transfer, that grain is still in there (unless you removed it for some high end DI/VFX stuff), and so many DoPs are so adamate about keeping their kodak vision something something something grain pattern in there that nothing else will do

it would make sense to be able to throw film grain in post as part of a codec standard, but watch VLC gently caress it up or something.

also it would be uniform across the entire movie, and sometimes you want to tweak it per shot.

also sometimes you want the grain to appear in the highlights and shadows, so you have to do some trickery either pulling back your max highlight, or making your film grain transfer actually darken the image (change opacity)

There's a lot of little details that still need to be preserved, but yeah it does make your encode like 3x bigger

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

also there would be a big group of spergy people who would want it off all the time and the DoPs wouldn't like that

they gave an option to remove "film grain" in mass effect and apparently they took it out because so many people played with it off, and the directors artistic vision was being ruined.

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

~my artistic vision in a video shame~

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
uhh first thing i did in mash effect was turn off the film grain because it looked bad & I'm pretty sure you could turn it off in all 3 games

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
but anyway when restoring a film you need to restore it to its original state, it ruins the artistic integrity of the film to touch it up and make it "better" than it was which is why crap like airbrushing the grain out of Patton is such a travesty

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
i like film grain

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Instant Grat posted:

carl_winslow-_wax_doll_-_predator_bluray.png

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
it has nothing to do with film grain looking "better" or even artistic vision, it's just about authenticity. real art restorers try to preserve the integrity of the original and so should film

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Detroit Q. Spider posted:

not carl weathers but holy loly



im sure video plebs prefer the left image too

that's actually a really terrible transfer on the right anyway but the left looks worse

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
film isnt art

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

colors hot enough to cook your steak

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
neither are paintings

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
nothing on planet earth has any artistic value

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
only video games r art

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
authenticity is a sham

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



my dilz is art

u can tell when a woman sees it she immediately drops to her knees in awe & hunger

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
there I cleaned up all the plaster grain in this fresco

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Nomnom Cookie posted:

my dilz is art

u can tell when a woman sees it she immediately drops to her knees in awe & hunger

that stuff coming out of her mouth is vomit, not saliva...

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



one of the symptoms of religious ecstasy is nausea & vomiting

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Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

Silver Alicorn posted:

there I cleaned up all the plaster grain in this fresco



ive seen that image before but never knew the back story so i googled it

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...wide-sensation/

holy lol

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