lo.pro
Mar 2002
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i agree that 2 passes is pretty low. however, i do not believe that that reckoning takes into account the production of the *.vaf file, which in cce settings would count as another pass, making this the equiv of a 3-pass encode. not sure on that one. in any case, having watched the flick, i've got to say that it looked pretty good.
i agree that if you don't have to use a noise filter, you shouldn't.
simpleresize is fast, and generally does a pretty good job, actually. in fact, some are of the opinion that, for instance, bicubicresize is *not* ideal for reducing image size, only for enlarging... and that when reducing, one should use something more akin to bilinearresize (which is basically what simpleresize is).
decomb is an excellent ivtc/deinterlace filter.
so the bitrate doesn't match by a few k. what the average is set at is not necessarily what average bitrate was acheived, particularly when using cce, which has a tendency to run a bit over the average setting.
as for the movie itself, i thought it was decent but not outstanding. i think a lot of people are sort of missing something about the style: it's *supposed* to have that sort of "larger than life" quality; whomever said something about the popeye movie is actually on the right track; tho i think that perhaps "desperado" or even "charlie's angels" is a bit closer to the mark. like those flicks, this film was not supposed to be trying to convince you that it was an accurate portrayal of historical realities or convince you that it were 'really' happening, but more to present an almost mythopoeic image using archetypical figures (for those of you to whom this means anything, think roland barthes meets tarantino, but not as well done :p ) set in an era and place that many people have given little consideration to (generally when most ppl think of that time period, it's either images of the 'old west', or of civil war battles in the south... ppl rarely consider what might have been happening in new york back then). it was a good idea, only half pulled off -- tho i'll admit i thought this was one of dicaprio's better roles, usually i can't stand the guy.
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