AI, improving video, upscaling suggestions.
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There are a few videos which benefit quite a bit from editting - such as to get the colors right, the correct brightness, get the audio in synch with the video, etc. I have done this myself and uploaded the results. One example of that is "Drilligan's Island" to fix the out of synch audio. Fixing a video should not change the SIZE of the video significantly. I find that fixed videos are about 5% larger than the original.
There are a few people who are upscaling videos - making them huge - without making any improvements. Naughty naughty!
When I upload a video that I have edited, I always explain what I changed in the description of the video. Anybody changing a video should also do this. If they are UPSCALING a video, they need to explain WHY they upscaled it. In fact, since an upscaled video is usually 2 to 10 times the size of the original file, the uploader of the upscaled video should include the original video with the upscaled video. A few people do this. If they do not, you can be certain that they are just screwing you to get you to download their bloated version of a file to get themselves download credits (which is NOT an effective way to get download credits).
I have found that 10mb of file size per minute is adequate. When going lower than that, quality drops off quick. Anything over 40mb per minute is almost certainly going to result in no improvements in quality In fact, those large files not only take up more hard drive space, cost more credits and take longer to download, they often cause LAG when playing the video, because the viewer's computer cannot process all that data fast enough.
One example of this involves changing formats. When encoding a DVD, the encoder generally produces a set of VOB files that fill the DVD. Typically a rip of a DVD results in a set of VOB files that are 4.5 GB. When re-encoded into being an AVI or MP4 file of the exact same quality, that generally results in a file that is about 1/4 the size or about 1.2 gb. In fact, if you look at the VOB files in a DVD rip, you will see 2 or more sets of VOB files because they could not fill the DVD with enough crap with the movie itself. They often include unwanted "extras" such as "behind the scenes", "bonus scenes", "previews" and other crap.
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I have seen some upscaling, but they have been, for the most part, labeled as such.
There's one guy, I don't remember his name, but I know his work when I see it, who uses Topaz AI and uses standard settings of 200% and whatever AI preset. The stuff comes out pretty good and isn't insanely huge.
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@raphjd Frankly, there is no reason to upscale in regards to SIZE. It does not improve anything but makes the files larger. In about an hour, I will show an example of this.
I know you like high quality, so do I, but I also don't want files to be bigger than they have to be to deliver that quality. Years ago on this site, some asshole uploaded a 30 minute video that was 9 TB... yes TERABYTES. That was so ridiculous that even the moderator was disgusted that someone did this.
A 30 min video should be between 300 mb and 1,200 mb, not 9,000,000 mb.
