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VideoArtifact: Footage Quality Restoration Software
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  • reanrean

    joethepro http://media.videoartifact.com/NeatBlur-TheBestBlurFilter.zip See these details lost. All these examples just shows removing of any 1-2pixel area difference. So the result is so plastic and looks bad. The only details are kept where there are lines more than 2-3 pixel in length.

    Vitaliy_Kiselev do you understand a difference between "AviSynth-based software" and "AviSynth scripts"? Look at youself. And find a place in any of my texts where I sale AviStnth scripts. Do you understand what is a script? It is just a text file. How user can use these files? It is impossible to sell it.

  • radikalfilmradikalfilm

    Merry Christmas everyone. I would suggest @rean needs a business partner. I suspect a cultural gap here, not just broken English at play.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Topaz DeJPEG has some similar function for stills

    Topaz DeJPEG gives you the ability to improve the quality of your JPEG images. DeJPEG eliminates JPEG compression artifacts, which occur as a result of saving an image in the JPEG format, allowing you image detail and color to be restored.

  • reanrean

    Happy New Year! Let's make it more perfect!

  • reanrean

    I have considered your wishes regarding examples and have remade old ones. Currently 9 examples are published with image comparison. http://www.videoartifact.com/examples/

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  • apefosapefos

    The results are very good in demo images.

    I have Nex-5n camera and would like to remove H.264 4:2:0 compression artifacts on edges: color aliasing, halos.

    I downloaded free version but the software is very complex to understand and use.

    You need to make it easy to use for people who does not understand computer scripts. You need an user interface, a standalone version window with checkboxes and sliders, import clip export clip buttons...

    Another important thing: 250 usd is very expensive, neatvideo is 100 usd, so the premium version could be 100 usd.

    If you make an user interface and seel for 100 usd lots of people will buy.

    It would be good idea you have a partner to develop the user interface for you and you share the money sellings with the partner.

    I do not have time to understand this complex thing, sorry.

    there are competitors:

    http://www.phyx.biz/phyxcleaner.html only 49 usd

    http://www.neatvideo.com only 75 usd

    I think your software is better and can do things the other softwares cannot do, but your interface and price are moving customers away...

  • reanrean

    apefos, Yes, I loose many customers because these things.

    Also yes, it may be very complex for beginners. But due to the complexity it allows to do things that other programs simply can not or the alternate solution will be slower or require many software or user time.

    User interface you mean is not possible due many internal design things. I am a professional programmer, so problem is not in my programming knowledge. So, please do not ask me. If sales will be success to sponsor my next development, I will create a node-based solution. But currently it works perfectly using text editing. I have done everything possible that it was convenient within all restrictions and features. And after learning times it may be faster and convenient.

    The program price is connected with features / quality / speed. You pay not only for a denoiser with artifact repair tools. It is mainly a post-production tool that can do many things with your sources, and many things to mastering the result for end video product, including encode to mp4/webm.

    But I can create a personal discount if ask privately. Alternative way: I can create a template for your camera/scene combination, so most time you will just use one mouse click to process any of your recording. It is a service I also provide.

    PS. I have created recently two new YouTube tutorials to show how to use it for advanced denoise, plus there is many advanced usage tricks. If you would get more tutorials, ask me what usage concepts or techniques are hard for you.

  • apefosapefos

    At this moment I will not buy, I wouyld like to use the free version.

    I know from your another previous software that you work with sony nex cameras, so if you can do something automatic for nex-5n in the free version it would be great.

    thanks

  • reanrean

    @apefos the latest free friday build (1.3.0) has default settings to remove small noise and compression artifacts for an average Sony/Panasonic full hd camera in 4:2:0. Try it for your sources without any changes.

    But anyway, any average case may not work as good as parameters changing. For more results using this free edition, most time you will need to change only these three denoise parameters:

    frames=4, th=350, limit=3

    frames=2..6 to balance between denoise strength/denoise motion artifacts. th=100..1000 to balance between denoise strength/details lost. limit=1..100 to balance between denoise strength/denoise motion artifacts.

    Any quality restoration is always getting a balance in required priority areas. And aggressive denoising is the area that requires more attention.

    If your source is clean daylight, you may set frames=6 and find a denoise/artifact remove strength using th=100..500.

    Probably these ideas will help.

    PS. Denoising using the software default denoiser means also exactly "remove compression artifacts". It is because this denoiser algorithm is the best to remove H.264 artifacts.

  • reanrean

    Video Artifact is very stable now. The current version is 1.6.0. Using VA I have already processed around 50 hours of video from different sources. 2 new education films were created using these processed sources.

    Some very useful Video Artifact Premium key features users usually do not know:

    Mastering for YouTube, mp4 and for webm. Latest two weeks I have improved these features. VA allows to encode a final master video from NLE or DaVinci Resolve for different purposes:

    • High quality YouTube export, compatible with 10-bit video. Usually 8-bit video is dithered and some values between bytes should be encoded with dithering patterns. For YouTube compressor this means additional bitrate for these flat areas. So we have compression artifacts even for static video. I had experiments with encode dithering. And now VA has the best possible quality encode algorithm that compatible with screen-recorded content or reclaim video with large flat areas.

    • Consumer video encode for mp4. VA uses external x264 and Apple Quick Time AAC encoders. Currently we can create these video versions: 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p, 8 or 10 bit. Correct color matrix is used: bt.709 or bt.601. Resize is ringing-free and processed in linear color space. Compression settings are tuned for a compromise between quality, encode speed and old device compatible. There are different encode scripts for screen content and movie with very different encode settings.

    • Internet video encode for webm. VA uses a reference vpxenc VP9 encoder and Opus. 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p are supported. Compression settings were tuned for screen content and movie. Now I have best possible quality encoding per different resolutions. Every resolution encoding settings were optimized by hand. Also it is very fast. Default settings allows you to encode 1080p VP9 video on 4 GHz i7 with 2-4 fps.

    24-bit audio support. VA can extract audio track to edit in external audio editor. After editing (denoise, replace audio from external audio recorder) we can import these audio files back to get 10-bit video with 24-bit audio to edit in DaVinci Resolve or other NLE.

  • arumarum

    Awkward news, @rean. I have just downloaded VA and Avast has identified it as a virus. I had to manually configure Avast so that it would let me run VA. I have sent the file to Avast and marked it as a false positive (I am praying nobody messed with your site and inserted a virus in your file). Maybe getting a hash for the download would be a good idea.

    Besides that, I also get a floating point division by zero message on the editor every time the cursor gets out of it or when I press control save or update to save and, finally, the preview does not work at all.

    On the positive side, I have just played with it a bit and it definitely kicks the ass of my current denoiser with static shots. I'll do some tests with movement these days to see if stays as impressive.

    One question, I have added ffmpeg, but have no idea of how to get the output to be in DNxHD or PRORES. I managed to get UTvideo only to find out that it does not work with any of the editors that I use. Is the DNxHD or PRORES output reserved for the paid versions of the program?

  • reanrean

    Hello, arum.

    Avast shows a false positive in one of AviSynth plugin (also on the binary from the original plugin developer). And I cannot get it not to detect anything, because the plugin code is pure assembler. I sent reports for Avast last 5 years for many false positive cases (for example made by direct compiling from my Visual C++) and no any of my reports were applied. They just ignore all my reports.

    I recommended this antivirus for friends last years, but after many times I helped my sister with notebook virus cleaning I found Avast does not working at all. I spent many hours to manually remove a lot of adware there. Avast just shows no viruses found but the computer was not usable because a lot of popups in the system and browsers including porno and illegal reclaim. Also it removes many of very useful freeware and commercial programs I used. Now I removed this psevdo-antivirus from my computers and do not recommend it to anyone. I do not understand why it has very high worldwide rating. Probably because it is free and catch "pseudo-viruses" when another antiviruses found nothing. Users think it is good...

    Sorry. I have no any power to battle with Avast developers because ignorance. It seems a corporate politic.

    DNxHD and ProRes output code is not included to community scripts. Try near-lossless MJPEG with mov or png in mov (but slow).

    Floating point division by zero will be fixed when I catch it on my computer. Currently I started a new video project and I working with VA video editor every day, so a case should be found soon. Thanks for reports.

  • reanrean

    Floating point division by zero is fixed. Reinstall VACore with version 1.1.1.

    A message from Avast: "Our virus specialists have been working on this problem and it has now been resolved. The provided file has been whitelisted."

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