Shadow Smoother

Spatial and temporal smoothing in the shadow areas of the picture.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Valentim Batista
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 209 KB

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Shadow Smoother Description

The Shadow Smoother VirtualDub filter was designed to smooth (both spatial and temporal) the darkest parts of the picture in order to reduce the bitrate needed to encode such dark areas. The smoothing process runs row by row, each one by its own, without any vertical input. The filter acts upon areas of variable radius in order to achieve 3 smoothing strengths. Version 0.5 in addition to the 0.4 version the filter will lock pixels (use the previous frame pixel) that only differ half of the difference configured for the temporal smoothing (0 for 0 and 1, 1 for 2 and 3, 2 for 4 and 5 and so on. Threshold values effect are easily previewed (red/green option) and even difference to a certain extent but difference values over 4/5 are known to generate artefacts because the pixels that can be averaged generate visualy distinct areas from some that are not and kind of "leave a trail".


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