@rean Will there be some friendly user interface? Or we better say - GUI? I once installed your software (many months ago) but crashed my head in finding out how this "beast" works... And I still haven't figured it out...

@rean Great job, looking forward to the new beta. I think upsampling to 2k would be great for those wanting the benefits of the process without incurring the huge file and rendering time penalty.

@endotoxic a beta version is planned in a next week or two. There are some things those are not ready really to be published. A final release will be available after tests, ~ in a next month, but these are no plans to change anything more, so the coming beta version will be ready for production use and final questions “how to...” or "how do I...". I am testing it currently on my next real video project. Many bugs and issues are already fixed in this testing.

A documentation will be written after beta publishing. As you see, this year I have created many development versions where you can see a huge amount of cardinal changes in every release to release. It is because I create as great software as I can create and optimize everything. Also I want to keep my time and CPU use time, so it must be as fast as possible with long projects for hours of rendering. I have now a great project of summary video time for hundreds of hours, so I create the program to use in this big project. Key goals are: speed+usability+final quality+color accuracy.

Previous versions were very slow and have some usability, stability and quality issues.

About 4K use. This usage requires a special program settings (reduced thread count and memory used), or you can get crashes. Windmotion is a x86 software, so a free memory is a key. Also, be ready to get processing with 0.1-0.5 fps. The published example is rendered in 0.3 fps on i7 3.5Ghz.

@SuperSet it should work with GH3, but there are no GH3 profile yet. I have not found any original GH3 file on the internet, so I don't know a file format, color matrix and other things to create a valid profile.

Most of unsupported cameras should be imported correctly (but with wrong color information - manual change is required), using "Generic File.bat" or "Generic File (to mkv).bat". Some cameras require special tricks.

If you are interesting in a GH3 profile, send me in a private message some short GH3 originals in different file formats, supported by GH3.

Also I still need in information for GH2 about an exact mts file size, used by camera for spanning. Currently I use this value: 4300,000,000 bytes. Of course, it is incorrect. How to get this value? Create a big ~one hour video and send me exact file sizes for all mts files. Currently only Sony NEX camera profiles can join mts files correctly, because I own these cameras and know span sizes.

One question: is anyone are interesting in support of upsampling to 2K resolution?

when we will be able to use the final product.

Im very interested in this upsampling method. Also for 2k blowup no 4k, i find it very interesting. Until now i cant completely work on this software.

An UI would be grate.

it is nonsense - 4:2:0 is 4:2:0 remain, for ever

@rean This is impressive! Really looking forward to it. Keep us posted.

Ian_T, I tried to open it in Adobe After Effects CC Trial, using Quick Time. Also, it is playable in Windows over PotPlayer (but no 1:1 view). If someone have problem to open it, I can create another lossless copy: utcodec avi or H.264 avi or mov or mkv. Ask me if you really need it. But I found ProRes is more universal to open in most software.

@virgilr, there are 4 denoise types available now to use (but one in a community edition). Any processing is per channel independent. Probably it may help in keying, but I have no test results yet. GH2 has poor U and V channels even on 140 Mbps. Also any other H.264-based encoding cameras have the same thing.

Windmotion 4K Technology Preview Sample.

This is a ProRes video sample in 4K (4096x1714, 4:2:2, 406 Mbps). It is created from a Panasonic GH2 footage (1920x1080, 4:2:0, 140 Mbps) using Windmotion 0.8.0 Beta 1 Pro Edition. Processing: crop, YUV denoising, upsacale, special detail sharp, film grain noise and dithering. All processing made in Windmotion only.

Video is updated, see page 7 for examples

Footage copyrighted by Space Ludwig.

The beta version will be available to download soon. This version will be final development version before version 1.0. This version is currently tested on real Full HD video projects.

Probably this is the latest alpha. Beta versions are coming soon.

Version 0.7.0.Alpha10, 2013-06-25

EncodeFilm360.bat is added.
EncodeFilm H.264 presets are speed+quality optimized now.
Denoise functions quality optimizations.
A possibility to change fps after denoise.
Sharp quality optimizations (Pro).
New denoise functions, including GPU-based (Pro).
Encode film in mp4, aac, flac is added (Pro).
Optimized film encode presets (Pro).
Automatic film clip names generation (Pro).
New function MotionBlur8 (Pro).
Optimized Sony HX20 Avsi (Pro).
x264, ffmpeg, flac, LAVFilters, MatroskaSplitter are updated to the latest versions.
Bugfix: Stability of Edit scripts improved (crash on denoise).
Bugfix: PlayEdit clipboard paste command Ctrl-V works correctly now.
Scripts refactoring and optimizations.
Range of camera support added.
TODO: Documentation in progress.

Can someone please provide some more video samples? I don't know why this isn't generating a lot more buzz. This stuff is great.

Windmotion is back... I found a way to get it faster, easier and more stable with only a very small quality loss. Also I use this version in a real commercial video project now. So, a final version (with a documentation) will be ready soon.

Version 0.6.0.Alpha9, 2013-06-18

This is a fully rewritten version.
Support of 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 is added for fast processing.
Support of multiple project resolution and color mode profiles.
Script architecture is changed for speed and usability.
Memory use optimizations: new 4:4:4 file format, less temp file usage.
Speed optimizations: fast algorithms, Y8 code, file format changes.
Simple Windmotion directory structure.
Export optimizations (H.264 by default with ffmpeg, params).
Better 8-16-8 bit conversion.
Better 601/709 color conversion.
Better lossless H.264 files support (fastdecode, keyint 4).
Better multichannel audio support (L,R channels in PlayEdit).
Better NEX-7 color shift profiles (Pro).
Film and audio project support is improved (Pro).
Fast preview avi (720p 4:2:0) for film scripts (Pro).
Full set of film functions is added (Pro).
Audio compression (mp3 and flac) is added (Pro).
Sony HX20 optimized profile is added.
Support of different camera models are temporary disabled.
Internal 16-bit masktools functions. Dither.avsi is removed.
Most components are updated to the latest version.
Some components are removed, new components are added.
Bugfix: dehalo and sharp code is corrected.
Bugfix: Crash on long files is fixed on i7 (2 or 4 threads).
Bugfix: avs2yuv is used instead of avs2avi because crashes with Avisynth MT.
Many other small improvements.

Oops. I have bad news, guys.

I made ​​a mistake on a development stage, thinking that using 4:4:4 instead of 4:2:0 will not take too much space and will increase the processing time quite a bit. But in reality it turned out it's different. I have usage results on a real big video project (one hour of 50p video 1920x1080).

The current script set is too slow for one hour video (two weeks of processing) and it eats around 3-4 TiB memory space. It is too big and slow for regular use (I have smaller HDD size and cannot render this project).

I have also big problems in stability of Avisynth for these big files. These problems can be fixed, but in cost of processing time. Also a realtime processing will not be possible in this case.

So we need to cut most of features, i.e. disable 4:4:4 processing or decrease the resulted quality and usability. Also a release time will be shifted to the far future.

Sorry for all who wait for a release.