Smoothing filter? Anything like it?

CodePoet wrote on 11/24/2002, 11:13 AM
Does Vegas have any smoothing filters or anything like it? I use Virtualdub's filters to clean up videotapes with great success but would like to not keep going back and forth between the 2 programs. What do others do to clean up the their video footage? Smoothing seems to help quite a bit on many of the videos. Thanks for any ideas.

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BillyBoy wrote on 11/24/2002, 1:54 PM
Try the median filter. Caution: VERY SLOW RENDERING, but it does help. Use very low settings or the image gets blured too much.
vx2000b wrote on 11/24/2002, 10:30 PM
I hear ya...it would be nice.
I find the smooth filter removes video noise.
The smooth filter makes mpegs render with less
compression artifacts.
After I capture video, I always run it though the smooth filter
before importing it back to VV3
CodePoet wrote on 11/24/2002, 11:23 PM
That raises a question - what compression do you use when moving to / from Virtualdub?
jopereira wrote on 11/25/2002, 2:54 AM
I think temporal smoother is better than spacial smoother because we don't have, necessarily, to loose detail.
And yes, better output than input quality.
vx2000b wrote on 11/25/2002, 11:33 AM

"That raises a question - what compression do you use when moving to / from Virtualdub? "
And a good question at that!
Mainconcept DV codec v2.04
Almost as good as SF's codec. In my opinion, SF vegas video 3
has the best codec available for DV!

Donald Graft's Smart Deinterlacer v2.7 beta 2 (use with Virtual dub) does a great job. The filter allows you to analyze via the preview window, what will be deinterlaced. I'm not sure what's going on, but this filter, (or just running the captured video through virtual dub?) is removing a lot of video noise!
It makes VV3's mpeg-2 encoding compress a lot easier with less artifacts!
CodePoet wrote on 11/25/2002, 3:42 PM
So if you compress w/ the MainConcept DV codec - you're going to lose a bit of quality over doing a Huffyuv lossless compression. Is the quality loss noticeable?
RichMacDonald wrote on 11/27/2002, 9:20 AM
>I think temporal smoother is better than spacial smoother because we don't have, necessarily, to loose detail.

You would be talking about VirtualDub here?
I don't know of a temporal smoother in VV.
I looked last night and couldn't find anything.
vx2000b wrote on 12/1/2002, 11:17 AM
CodePoet...
I have recompressed without any visual difference...
Of course, nothing beats the SOFO codec.
Steve