Transcoding Animated Sources

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Transcoding animated sources is challenging when the source is interlaced. Especially if it's artificially interlaced. When transcoding to full frame video without proper de-interlacing, the interlacing artifacts will be painfully obvious.

Luckily, the de-interlacing filters supplied with transcode do a good job of fixing this.

When compressing video, one can get blotchy effects, similar to those seen when large fields of colors are compressed into a JPEG image. The solution is to do 3d noise analysis (whatever that is) and sharpen the image.

-J hqdn3d,msharpen=strength=25

You may also want to brighten it a little (gamma correction):

-G 0.9

Together, these settings a little more than double transcoding time.