Can someone give us a Nandub .vcf file to play with?

dcleech · Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

Can someone post a copy of their Nandub .vcf processing settings file? Ive gone to all the suggested web sites and tried all the suggestions but my encodes never even approach the quality seen in current digital fansubs. I know that each encode is different and that tweaking is always needed to get it just right. However, itd be helpful for me, and a lot of other people out there, to see a settings file that was actually used to create a digisub so that we can see what settings we should be playing around with. Ive actually asked for help from most distro groups that have their own forums but I still havent gotten any info on creating a good encode. Are these trade secrets or something?

Thanks in advance

DC

asdf · Guest

did you use 2 pass? do the first past first then once you get the stats, mess around with the settings for the second pass providing that you didn't change the video picture or size.

dcleech · Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

NekoYasha · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 2

I think Nandub SBC is being used less and less anymore. Really it doesn't offer much the current XVID and DivX codecs can't and they're both much easier to get good results from.

Still, I think a lot of the quality difference you may see had less to do with the encoding settings and more to do with the pre-processing encoders do. For example, if your source is NTSC getting the de-telecine right is an important step. Also some smoothing and temporal filtering are a big influece on how low a bitrate you can use and still get clean results.