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You've probably already uncovered this, but checkout "adelay" instead of "itoffset" and see if that fixes it.

https://superuser.com/questions/1292727 ... dia-player

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adelay only accepts a positive parameter, that didn't work.

I went for the simplest fix: remove 620ms of silence from the beginning of audio :lol:
Should work for everyone now...
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Yup, that works! Well done! :D

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Simple solutions are the best, well done :)

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MasonFace wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:48 pm I've used ESRGAN to upscale the live action portion of the intro and used frame interpolation to increase the frame rate from 15 to 30. Download below and feel free to use or modify:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yrJnq ... Ryy3xpAwNP

*Note, I'm aware that the fire looks pretty wonky. Not much I could do with it without manually masking that area each frame. Maybe someone with good video editing software/skills could mask the region and apply a denoise filter on it? :?

I have a high-quality video denoising tool. Could you send me the original video? It would be easier to start with the original video and have you process the denoised result. It works better with consistent noise patterns. It may or may not work (it is really designed for removing camera sensor noise rather than compression artifacts), but I figure it's worth a try. Thanks.

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Here it is: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kS3dX ... XgJnfQ5inE

You can just strip the first 45 seconds or so to get to the live action part.

Thanks!

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MasonFace wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:19 pm
I agree that the Rhymers version of the video is hard to beat :)
But I think the sound is not so good... sounds muffled, esp the voice (the whole sound part was remade, new voice was recorded and new background music used) Maybe Pango can try to clean the original video sound and switch it to the Rhymers video? It might be the best version?
Reading back through this forum thread, it sounds like Rhymer was also not too keen on the audio. I think his vision was to have it re-recorded. I wouldn't mind taking a crack at doing the voice over; the accent wouldn't be hard for me to do, but my microphone is crap. Also, I have that condition where I cringe when I hear my own voice played back, so don't be surprised if I don't follow through on this. :lol:
Audio is my specialty. I'm no professional voiceover artist, but I have a good recording setup and can give the VO some reverb that sounds nice but doesn't make it hard to understand the words. I will record in the next few weeks when I get the chance.

Speaking of which...could someone provide me with a script?

We will still need music. Rhymer had someone compose music for him but it seems he no longer has access to that file. If we can get the file from Rhymer or contact the composer, that would be great. If not, maybe ByteMixer or one of our other music folks can take a crack at it. I could, technically, try to recreate it with some decent string sounds I have, but they may have an easier time of it.

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MasonFace wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:12 am Here it is: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kS3dX ... XgJnfQ5inE

You can just strip the first 45 seconds or so to get to the live action part.

Thanks!
Thanks, MasonFace. I played with the settings last night and thankfully, it worked nicely on his face. Hoping to render it out this morning.

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It is rendering and I will post it later today. However, I did not realize this was the version with the synthesized frames. My denoiser evaluates the noise from frame to frame and was detecting every second and third frame as duplicates. On review, I saw the slight morph, but it’s not optimal for my purposes. So if you have the original file on hand, I would gladly process that. Hopefully that would give you a better result for the frame interpolation.
There is a sharpening feature in the denoiser that normally works wonderfully but in this case it brought out some noise in the shadows under his eyes and around his nose. It’s hard as the background is basically pure black with no noise. So the denoiser is working from a small patch of skin on the main character. Anyhow, my point being - I’d recommend sharpening after the upscale.

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Re: On intro video

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Ok, here is the denoised live action video.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksci2ezzjfnz ... g.mp4?dl=0

Image comparison here: https://imgsli.com/MzA5Nw

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