Tips for *all* MeguIV users
A few different thing you can try once you have got the hang of MeguIV
Make a 60fps Rip
- Select the "Advanced Config" tab, during the "One Click" process described on the first page of this thread
- Press the "Config" button for "Avisynth Profile:"
- Delete the line "SelectEven()"
- Press the "New" button to create a new preset. Give this script template a new name, I suggest you add "60fps" to the previous name, i.e. "[IV] High Quality 60fps"
- Press "OK". Now you can choose to use 60fps or not from the "Avisynth Profile:" drop down for every rip.
- You should also do the Reduce Filesize tweak below and increase the "Quality" value by 1.2. This will keep the filesize down, but maintain the same quality
60fps is the single biggest improvement you can make to a MeguIV rip, although it will take twice as long to process and result in a bigger file
Reduce Filesize
- Select the "Encoder Config" tab, during the "One Click" process
- Press the "Config" button for "Video Profile"
- *Important* - don't just randomly change settings in here just because the name or tooltip suggests it will help. The settings for MeguIV have been carefully chosen by Rollyco and you won't improve things unless you understand what you are doing
- However, assuming you are on the "Constant Quality" mode, you can tweak the "Quality" value. Higher values make smaller files at the expense of visual quality. 19.5 is the default for MeguIV. You can increase this value as far as 22.0 without any major ill-effects - as you increase you will get more of a filesize reduction.
- The value for 60fps should always be around 1.2 larger than the equivalent value for 30fps. I use 20.7 for my 60fps rips.
- Create a new preset by pressing "New", in a similar way to the avisynth preset described above
Speed Up Encoding
- TGMC tweak
(Edit: Use my new QuickTGMC script instead for maximum speed & flexibility, the x264 tip is still good though):
- Again in the avisynth profile config, find the line that begins with "TempGaussMC"
- Replace it with this line (first widen the editor window as some of the lines wrap):
Code:
TempGaussMC_beta2( 1,1,0, EdiMode="nnedi2", Sharpness=0.4, Sbb=0, SVthin=0.0, SLmode=1, rep0=0, rep2=0 )
- Will give you a significant speed up in the first encoding pass, but quality will be somewhat reduced (softens detail, may leave more interlacing artefacts)
- Save this setting to a new preset if you wish
- Try a quick test rip (see below) to see if it's OK
- x264 tweak:
- Select the "Encoder Config" tab, during the "One Click" process
- Press the "Config" button for "Video Profile"
- Drag the "Presets" slider to the left a couple of stops. "Faster" will give a significant speed-up in the second encoding pass, but with a slight quality loss (slightly blurrier)
Make a Quick Test Rip
- Again in the avisynth profile config, add a new line:
trim(0,1000)
at the end of the script
- This will encode the first 1000 frames only (around 10-20s) which will be quick. You can create rips with different settings and compare.
- Tweak the 0 & 1000 values to select different ranges of frames - you can focus on "problem" scenes if you wish
- Save this setting to a new preset if you wish
CyberDancer, regarding the edge cleaning:
- If you haven't made a 60fps file before, I would strongly suggest you try that first (without edge cleaning). This is because (a) it's faster, and you may be perfectly happy with the results, and (b) it ensures your system performance/stability is up to the extended encoding times
- If I still haven't put you off - copy the EdgeClean code from my post, and paste it into Notepad, then save it as "EdgeClean.avsi" into the plugins folder.
Don't paste the edge clean code into MeGUI/MeguIV (you should select a standard MeguIV preset instead)
- The TUnsharp.dll and dehalo_alpha.avsi should just be copied into the plugins folder. You shouldn't need LoadPlugin, as MeGUI automatically checks each "dll" and "avsi" file in the plugins folder
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