What?! Another TPM Episode?!
Added 2023-08-15 13:28:25 +0000 UTCYes! A new, hour-long episode will be released within 10 days.
It's going to be a fun one, so get your game face on.
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Thanks for such detailed response! This answers my questions thoroughly. I'm looking forward to the Battle for Naboo video!
James Covenant
2023-08-23 18:18:49 +0000 UTCSo, I use frame sampling for standard 23.967 to 60 FPS. If I'm slowing down footage, I'll use frame blending or optical flow. Optical flow can cause artifacts if the frame changes too much too quickly. Frame blending can sometimes make slowed down footage too blurry. We use 60 FPS because I think it produces a better looking image after YouTube bitcrushes the heck out of our work during compression. Believe it or not, an average TPM Part is around 19 GB of HEVC, on export. I don't want to ruin that tasty crispness when YT decides to gut all of our work, so 4K and 60 FPS seems to give us the most compression headroom. Why do I slow down footage? I don't like constant cuts when our narrator is making a point! I find it to be distracting, personally. Copyright is the bane of our existence. It seems to be based on brightness specifically, as it can detect footage through a whole bunch of filters (coloured or not). But adding brightness-noise over it, such as text, seems to stop that. We try not to use more than 7 seconds at a time, and I try to have memes and other stuff break up sections where we have a lot of movie footage with sound (a particularly hard thing to get past the copybot). I hope this answers all your questions. Thanks, and I loved getting this question! —ED-1TA
Christopher Allen
2023-08-21 22:22:20 +0000 UTCLooking forward to it! I was wondering, what is your process for frame interpolation of Star Wars footage? The movie footage in your videos often has a surreal, stage-like quality to it, which leads me to believe that extra frames have been created. (All your lore analysis videos are 60fps, while the source footage from the movies is only 24fps.) What tools do you use for frame interpolation? And what are the main advantages of interpolating to 60fps? Does it help you avoid copyright detection? Or do you just like the way the footage looks? Perhaps the interpolation adds extra detail which makes for more interesting analysis! Let me know if there is a better place for me to post this question. (And forgive me if you’ve already discussed this topic in another post or video. If so, just kindly point me in the right direction.)
James Covenant
2023-08-21 18:43:12 +0000 UTC
