I can see quality differnce in examples - impressive. When is this used - before editing in NLE and grading, or after?

YEAHHH GOOD NEWS!!!
Though it is still under observation (not yet released publicly but eminently to come), Selur (BIG THANKS man) included within Hybrid @karl 's script developed on this PV thread

 
Still Quicktime doesn't recognise the 444, displaying proRES422 HQ, but both VLC and mediainfo shows the baby's blue eyes, yeahhhh, let the chicken riot begin!!!!
 

Yo @karl wise ass tweaking wizard :P
from your link: Axolotls are used extensively in scientific research due to their ability to regenerate limbs. Axolotls were also sold as food in Mexican markets and were a staple in the Aztec diet.

Do you think aztecs wanted a second penis? Aztec wives probably dug the idea and hunted and cook the poor axolotls with anticipation. Poor Mayas mixed with such barbarians, but a second penis... :P

Now that I think about it, maybe it's not a bad idea if Selur also prospects for some weird endangered species to iconise his fab little hybrid. Somekind of exoesqueleton soft inside creature with many ramificating arms, both sexes, stereoscopic vision, plenty of midiclorinos and chromatophores, ultrasound and 5600º K light emitting capabilities, mind reading and wormhole fart abilities and a diet consisting of just radioactive algae and politician's toes.

BTW in the last test version of hybrid I'm trying, Selur has fixed the QT recognition of proRES444 =)
And yet another nice thing that I found to be a big PITA in ffmpeg and does not happen in hybrid is to get stuck when the file has data stream aka spok's timecode

There's a new build out; win, mac and linux and a Yosemite's own version too
 

http://www.selur.de/downloads

 
Some bug ironing and

added
• avisynth: "Interactive script view"-option, when enabled, Hybrid will not disable the GUI while the avisynth preview is enabled. It will also update the view on every change made that influences the script.
 WARNING This option is experimental! It isn't tested extensively, so use it with case. Especially the fast change of settings, e.g. by using the up/down arrows of an option might cause problems. -> if your run into reproducible problems please tell my how to reproduce the problem and I'll try if I can find a fix for it.
• tools: 'Check for new release'-button, when pressed Hybrid will check if there's a newer version of Hybrid available online 
or not.
• x265: support for '--rd-penalty X'

changed
• avisynth: support Avisynth+ as alternative to normal Avisynth (the avisynth extension still comes with Avisynth 2.6 MT atm.)
• input: always set frame count to the number of time codes, for vfr content

THANKS TESTING, this is really nice indeed.

Changelog since last version

•   rev 2015.01.19.1:  
•   *fixed*
◦   audio: aac audio encoder delay handling
◦   audio: mono to strereo upmix handling
◦   mux: negative audio delay got ignored for vfr video content when muxing to mp4
◦   avisynth: MAA2 call
◦   input: auto loading audio file(s)
◦   input: avi(raw rgb video) handling
◦   input: workaround for 1st chapter infos messed up by MakeMKV
◦   ui: crash when disabling 'Blu-ray'-Input after Blu-ray was loaded.
◦   subs: crash during job creation, when sup2idx was enabled
•   *changed*
◦   tools: reverted to MediaInfo 0.7.66 due to [url]http://sourceforge.net/p/mediainfo/bugs/860/[/url] (forgot about the bug, which is why I accidentally updated MediaInfo, sadly it seems like the bug isn't that important since I got no feedback from the developer of MediaInfo so far) ([b]Mac only[/b])
•   *added*
◦   avisynth: benchmarking through AVSMeter
◦   avisynth: Denoiser->NLMeansCL2
◦   avisynth: Color->AutoAdjust
•   rev 2015.01.11.1:
•   *notice*
◦   Windows user notice:
◦   Updating from an older versions doesn't work properly!
◦   A deinstallation of the older version is required! (settings&profiles can be kept)
•   *fixed*
◦   avisynth: yadifmod nnedi-field parameter
◦   cosmetics: some unneeded field when resetting avisynth defaults, caused unwanted popups
◦   extract: mplayer accidentally deleting audio input
•   *changed*
◦   general: update list of CUDA capable cards
◦   input: don't ignore subtitles on a DVD which have no language tag (needed for DVDs from DVD recorders)
◦   avisynth: Avisynth script preview, Avisynth filter preview and Avisynth preview are now all interactively adjusted in regard to
◦   changes in Hybrid.
◦   cosmetics: when audio input length is unknown show current position during encoding in top parent call-field
◦   No progress indication possible with fhgaacenc, since it doesn't provide any (when '--ignorelength' is used).
•   *removed*
◦   avisynth: interactive avisynth script view option (now it's always interactive)
•   rev 2015.01.07.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   audio: temp file removal
◦   input: bug reading the mkvtoolnix version which caused problems handling mkv files properly
◦   input: ignore pulldown flag for files which are 23.9.. fps (since they are normally soft telecined)
◦   subs: ignore empty subtitle entries during srt/ass->ttxt conversion
◦   trans: 'None' wasn't always translated properly
◦   tags: multi input audio-tag handling
•   *added*
◦   mux: use ffmbc instead of ffmpeg for .mov muxing if it's present
◦   If other features of ffmbc should be added to Hybrid, please post in the forum. Windows and Mac packages now contain ffmbc. Thanks to houdini for compiling the Mac version!
◦   x265: support for the range extension profiles (Warning: These are not finalized!)
•   rev 2015.01.05.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   audio: crash on empty source and audio handling 'passthrough all'
◦   tags: tagging of audio stream from mutlitple sources
•   rev 2015.01.04.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   cosmetics: progress indication when extracting streams with mplayer
◦   demux: hevc remuxing
◦   demux: mpeg-2 demuxing with mplayer
◦   x264: typo --psnr vs. --psrn
◦   x265: 'minimize command line' did remove '--psnr'
◦   x265: after 2pass delete .stats.cutree temp file
◦   x265: fix 'unknown version'-info of the attached binary (Windows only), Thanks to jb_alvarado.
•   rev 2014.12.23.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   avisynth: dvd input using DGIndex&DGIndexNV
◦   cosmetics: crashed jobs weren't shown as CRASHED, they simply stayed in their previous mode
◦   audio: crash when mplayer + sox + audio encoder were used at the same time (only happend when 'Config->Input->Decoding->Raw with MPlayer' was enabled)
◦   avisynth: add 'wine' before avs2yuv calls on non-Windows systems
•   *added*
◦   input: added option to automatically run interlace analysis on 29./59./119. fps content which isn't detected as telecined (on by default)
◦   vpxenc: support constant quantizer mode
•   *changed*
◦   cosmetics: showing a countdown during shutdown&hibernation notification and set 'always on top'
◦   qsvenc: adjusted to QSVEncC 1.27 (Windows only)
◦   x264: rev 2525+ now supports --aq-mode 3 (auto-variance AQ with bias to dark scenes); not on Mac atm. due to lack of up-do-date x264
◦   x265: splitting noise reduction into intra&inter noise reduction
◦   input: audio now always gets extracted on DVD input before processing to avoid unwanted peep sounds on some systems
◦   output: change current output path if default output path gets changed and generate output name is enabled  

             BIG THANKS SELUR =)

@producer... whatever not, compadre, whatever doesn't make hybrid work ,-)

Selur Forum

 
Here's a quick and dirty run through:
Before anything, one of hybrid's hyper-helpful features is little cute stickies which make quite easy to understand what the fuck are we doing... I learnt to use the app by myself which brought a bit of frustration at first, nothing major. But let's hit the crowd, shall we?

After selecting video output format one has to select how will hybrid handle audio, I normally use either custom (for single files) or auto-add first if batch processing . More on that later.

Off we go to second tab, proRES in this case, here one selects encoder and settings. I use anatoly for up to 422HQ and kostya (slower, but only option) for 444.

In the third tab we can do exactly what it reads, crop and resize. You can also change and distort PAR (pixel aspect ratios). If cropping, theres a nice preview button down right. About resize, when I use it, I check the auto option to mod 2 as it is easier to spot a wrong dialled value; bicubic spline for downscale, lanczos for upscale. There's still a misc sub-tab with several crop options and the force 444 downsize option (linked with at least x2 times downscale and karl script), I did wrote about in previous post.

Next, filters. Not all the filters work with all the encoders. With proRES, you can use the filtering sub-tab without problems. All filters work well but make encoding more lengthly. The denoiser it is very nice (and worth tweaking), when you start using it together with gradfun or dither... you won't ever want to use other thing. Last sub-tab of filtering is for tweaking speed. Dropping frames, changing speed read... the stickies explain it fairly well.

Next important stop, audio. You can use audio stream from file source or add a new one. Here you'll select audio format compatible with video format. In the filtering section you can change/add DRC (dynamic range compression), method used it and downmix it in plenty enough ways. Important thing after selecting our audio settings is to click the plus button on the right to submit/add our settings to audio queue.

Our next pit stop is down on CONFIGURATION tab. The minimum essential to know about this tab is
in Output sub-tab

and Container settings dropdown menu, one selects the wrapper, in our present case .mov

from same drop-down menu, we set the way hybrid deals with files' namimg.

Next sub tab inside config to set is path, where are wc, kitchen and dinning rooms for hybrid to go do its thing? One can set them to use the same as input path. And still this can be override, more on that later.

Our last config sub-tab stop is at profiles, where one can create, save and set profiles in several ways. Personally I only use and set several global profiles and that's it. If one it trying and testing new settings this is also useful to keep record of the mess, je je

We are almost done, said the epileptic brain surgeon holding the bloody router. Back at the main tab, there's a generate checkbox which overrides general path settings and naming (this is what I use most of the time).
If one wants, can also override but still be able to choose the output and name

Then just beside this button there's the add to queue, click on that, then one either click the start queue button above

Or keep adding tasks, different outputs, version, etc. to finally go to Jobs tab and start the deglutition of pixels' souls

here you can keep an eye on what's hybrid doing and at what stage, also in last Log tab, useful is something goes wrong and one wants to try and find what it might have been, I need one like these that work with women.

For adding cut support aka TRIM see my previous post. There's support for avisynth script creation and a ton of other tweaking and sub quantifications magic matrix of intrinsic rubber worlds - honestly, other than some x264 and x265 settings, I haven't properly explore those - but as starting point I reckon this is enough =)

If in these forums there are people using this power program - and I bet there are - chim in, share your settings/findings, help others, participate, give back, ponder donating to selur and that's stuff.

 
gashô

@theshittywizard you're welcome. About "incorporating Avid's DNxHD codecs" try to reach and talk to Selur - http://forum.selur.de My experience communicating with him was an honest, approachable and fast one ,-)

Today were released new improvements. Changelog since last version:

•   rev 2015.02.08.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   audio: remembering default bitrate settings
◦   audio: automatic downmix to 5.1 when encoding to ac3 using ffmpeg and not aften
◦   x265: strictCBR error during 1pass average bitrate mode
•   *added*
◦   avisynth: base support for denoiser MDegrain (= MVDegrain for mvtools2)
◦   avisynth: support for FrFun7 denoiser
◦   ProRes: advanced ProRes settings when using Kostyas ProRes implementation
•   *changed*
◦   audio: using 64bit qaac on 64bit Systems now (before only a 32bit version was available)
◦   Note that this requires the 64bit Apple Application Support. (Windows only)
◦   x265: adjusted '--psy-rd X' default to 0.3
◦   x265: added support for --[no-]temporal-layers
•   rev 2015.01.29.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   subs: automated subtitle extracation during batch processing
◦   audio: channel mapping on multi-channel (>2) for ogg&opus
•   *changed*
◦   cosmetic: show Title-tag of input audio/video/subtitle stream as tool-tip for the selection combo-/spinbox  

•   rev 2015.01.26.1:
•   *fixed*
◦   avisynth: keep screen split on update
◦   avisynth: 4:1:1 input handling
◦   profiles: loading of multiple old (pre 2014.01.11.1) profiles in a row
◦   tools: WinXP compatibility (thanks to the mingw64 team for fixing)
•   *changed*
◦   tools: added some alternative names for some tools for more automated tool detection
◦   x265: support '--zones ..'
◦   input: using 0.7.66 and 0.7.72 MediaInfo to analyse content (Mac OS X only)
◦   avisynth: updated to latest Avisynth MT 2.6 RC1
•   *notice*
◦   linux: djcj made some changes to the ppa, see: [url]http://forum.selur.de/post7809.html#p7809[/url]  

 
THANKS SELUR - ROCKING-ON!!!
 

Maybe this application is not for average user, there are lots of software around free, cheap and expensive like that, Hybrid is in development and probably the design is something they will get better with time, I see this amazing project on heavy transcoding use, and pro very specific hands, cheers. Results for me are great.

Only thing I would ask is an update option in the soft, so we could keep on with latest version.

And for those who can: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=flow&SESSION=0quDVTNDTedYlMmBrvsAkZd16NJW2U27D9vhgPQ-CV6FECRba183bWKwJ4&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8da8649a435e198e44a05ba053bc68d12e

Thanks again keep on the amazing work.

im really dont understand the joke... anyways, I understand the effort of build this type of software thats is great for us, but there are so many, so its difficult to do a perfect among others

well, some of what i want:

make Hybrid portable (Windows only): install Hybrid on a system copy the Hybrid folder to a separate folder deinstall Hybrid create a new subfolder inside the new folder i.e. 'settings' create a misc.ini (if not preset in the folder) and change it's content to [General] settingPath=.\settings

http://forum.selur.de/topic33-hidden-hybrid-options.html

looking good, more testing and beer needed (too hot) =)
 

Selur rocks!!!

@VK I didn't even know MadVR; fucking hell 1.564 thread pages... it must be really somethin' :-)
I am the guy who goes to the well and carries water for the camels, I really know nothin' bout the intricate delicacies of all this.
Do you think is it possible to implement it in this hybrid cross-platform project?

High ISOs must be triple checkd, but grade can be pushed forward =)

 
MadVR