Hi. This would be my first post in this forum. I've been lurking around and thought to work on something and since I know a bit of video processing I decided to give this a shot.
I just re-encoded the opening cinematic for FF7 and tweaked it a bit here and there. I tried to use a few sharpeners to preserve as much detail as possible while also deblocking as much as possible without harming the overall picture. The end result doesn't look so bad. I saved a snapshot m35 made some months ago in
another thread:
And used it as a baseline to compare it with mine:
One of my goals with this was to enhance the original FMV as much as possible without using any external programs besides AviSynth. So yeah, all the filters that were used to process the video were all scripted and nothing was done manually on any frame, it was all in one go.
Oh an finally, the original video (like all the rest) ran at 14.985FPS while this one runs at 29.97FPS. And no, it's not simple frame duplicating. There's an extensive frame blending that slows down the encoding ferociously
Have a look. The frame blending is really
beta alpha-ish (some blending artifacts tend to pop up in fast scenes and some ghosting at the beginning), but there are some moments where the fluidity of the animation is really gorgeous. It made me wish Square would have at least done 30FPS with the PC version...
If there's any chance that the FMV Restoration Project would be interested in this I'd gladly contribute.
Video link:
OPENING[0].mp4 - 25.82MiB (video quality is diminished to make file smaller for uploading)
Video: x264 - Const.Q.21.5, 720p (same aspect ratio as source)
Audio: Nero-AAC@98kbps VBRAnyway, I'd enjoy reading some feedback.