Because there's no official process or real requirements for temp encodes - it's up to the person doing the temp encode. I just use the same settings that I use for my LP projects. It's optimized for my needs, and that's really all I care about. If it works better for you then feel free to use it.
You'd have to ask the Publishing team why they do things the way they do. It might be optimized for something I don't take into consideration.
Pokota's temp encode script was pretty helpful, so I made this linux version in about 15 minutes. Render the script executable; run [chmod +x "script name"] in your terminal, and run it to see the syntax. Requires only ffmpeg.
(I made this because there is no real easy way to run AviSynth under linux, as far as my search went, and I didn't want to mess around with complicated stuff for temp encoding when you have ffmpeg..)
Download encoding.sh
Third - You do not need return last, since avisynth is weird and doesn't require return last if the last line of your script is a clip and isn't a variable declaration.
Actually even though it is implied to be there, AviSynth is weird in that if you start doing something like last = clip, you are require to return last. I mean it doesn't really hurt so keeping it there is it's not that big of a deal.
Sometimes I set it since I was working on another variable and now I want it to be the main one. I actually have not tried just placing a clip variable on a line to set it to last. If that works, wow, surprised I've not thought of it. If that does indeed work, I would say explicitly having "last =" makes it more readable =).
When writing functions that take a clip as their first parameter, I (almost) always put the clip variable on its own line to make it the "current" clip. So yes, it does work.
When writing functions that take a clip as their first parameter, I (almost) always put the clip variable on its own line to make it the "current" clip. So yes, it does work.
That's functions, I'm talking does this work:
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("whatever.avi")
a
Even if it does work, this is more readable IMO:
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("whatever.avi")
last = a
return last
Yeah, all of that works. But it's highly redundant - you already set last with a single line of "AVISynth(...)".
"return last" looks like "i = i + 1;" to a C programmer.
Yeah, all of that works. But it's highly redundant - you already set last with a single line of "AVISynth(...)".
"return last" looks like "i = i + 1;" to a C programmer.
actually if you just do
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("whatever.avi")
I believe last is not set and AviSynth returns an error. In your example, the shortcut is to do i += 1;, but there is no such shortcut in this case, the person reading has to "know" that last is implicit.
Aktan - of course that would fail; you have a variable declaration on the last line of your script :P
In all seriousness though, implied return last doesn't happen unless the last line of a script is a clip and is not a variable declaration containing a clip. So while
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("a.avi")
b = AVISource("b.avi")
out = stackvertical(a, b)
would fail due to not having a return value,
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("a.avi")
b = AVISource("b.avi")
stackvertical(a, b)
should work (since stackvertical returns a clip and you're not declaring a variable on the last line)
With all that said, I don't like relying on implied last and implied return last since that makes things harder to read. So I would end up using
Language: avisynth
a = AVISource("a.avi")
b = AVISource("b.avi")
return stackvertical(a, b)
# or, if this were being used as the final script and not a source script, I'd do the following
out = stackvertical(a, b)
return out
It does if it's the only line and you're not assigning it to a variable (though at that point you may as well not be using avisynth in the first place!)
It does if it's the only line and you're not assigning it to a variable (though at that point you may as well not be using avisynth in the first place!)
I know, you're not getting my poking fun at him =p.
global s = "1"
Test
BlankClip(1).SubTitle(s)
function Test {global s = "2"}
I prefer to define functions at the top of a script rather than at the bottom. :P Still, this does argue against my "the last line gets implicitly return'd" statement from before. I'll have to look more closely at the rules for implicit return. Or, we could just always use explicit return statements like a sane programming language would require.
Technically, every function returns a value. It's just that in Avisynth, the value undefined is also possible. It's what every function's return value starts at.
EDIT:
Language: Avisynth
tmp = Test
s = defined(tmp) ? "yes" : "no"
BlankClip.Subtitle(s)
function Test {
# 5
}
Comment/uncomment the 5 to see the different outcomes.
Sorry, but how do I simply splice AVI files generated by BizHawk together? Movie Maker is gone, and the script in the comments gives the following:
https://i.imgur.com/iNHYSwq.png
Is there any way to simply splice avi files together?
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jlun2 wrote:
Sorry, but how do I simply splice AVI files generated by BizHawk together? Movie Maker is gone, and the script in the comments gives the following:
https://i.imgur.com/iNHYSwq.png
Is there any way to simply splice avi files together?
List all the files and their resolutions.
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Sorry, but how do I simply splice AVI files generated by BizHawk together? Movie Maker is gone, and the script in the comments gives the following:
https://i.imgur.com/iNHYSwq.png
Is there any way to simply splice avi files together?
List all the files and their resolutions.
A single line script with listing all the files worked, thanks. Using the camtasia codec the 80 minute video is now 8 GB, but at least it works. 🙂
Is there a good video tutorial of how to upscale a video? I do everything like CustomEncoding says, but the video becomes even worse then just rendering in Vegas Pro.
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Dimon12321 wrote:
Is there a good video tutorial of how to upscale a video? I do everything like CustomEncoding says, but the video becomes even worse then just rendering in Vegas Pro.
Doesn't sound possible. Either you use too high ratefactor or wrong upscale method (or the dump is lossy).
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