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The new Link for TC
https://magentacloud.de/s/rMCAGfrWLP62gxc

New link to the tools: https://magentacloud.de/s/4wPko9FN4fFd2tf

Meantime  I created a fork Transitionchooser "FlowFrames Edition" but it also works with other AI interpolators. All you must do, is to create  a frames.ini with the Tool in menu bar. There are some more features.  https://www.magentacloud.de/share/lg6gou41fc

ver 5.0

- bug in PicsPlayer fixed, ff- and rwd-button (<< >>) didn't stop the pics run in some cases
- a little bit improvement of scaling
- change the behavior of "<<" and ">>" buttons
- colored frame in picsplayer, so user can better detect missed transitions
- some internal improves for error detection (if png files are missed and so on...)

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Transitionchooser version 4.9

- doubleframe changed, now the last frame of the previous scene will be taken not the first frame of next scene

- characters "&" and "$" are now possbible in filepath

- now marked items are all lightblue, so the user can see exactly what he has selected
- now the buttons below the list only change seleceted items, if you want to change them all at once you must push CTRL+A before
- simple undo button added, now you can undo your last step you made with the "all to"- buttons

 https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Version 4.7

- fix of a minor bug and some internal improvements

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

And when the scene detection fails at some frames you can try this   https://discord.com/channels/777892450232434688/777893036876365845/7866676411414...

Version  4.6 

- tool interface is now manually resizable

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Ver 4.5

- fixed a bug, that let the tool crash if the user was to fast with editing the list

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

If you worry about ugly scene changes and  you want to set  them manually perhaps with blendframes at transitions there's a tool for you . "The Transitionchooser FF Rife Edition" Come to   and see how it works:   https://discord.com/channels/777892450232434688/777893036876365845/7866676411414...

Version  4.4

- the tool surface now scales itself automatically, (4k, FullHD, 16:9, 4:3, 21:9 and all windows scalefactors)

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Version 4.3 

- the tool is optimized for 1920*1080 but if you use a windows resolution-scale-factor or lower res. it will scale better than before

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Version 4.2

- if you are going through the scene list you can enable/disable "frame between" with pushing key "Q", so you don't need the mouse

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Version 4.0 -  with a bugfix if a edited list was loaded

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Version 3.9 of Transitionchooser is there. Now you can add own transitions if any scene changes weren't recognized

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/8hg-4o.omq

Perhaps that can help you:  https://itch.io/t/976700/finish-with-ugly-transitions-at-scene-changes-the-transitionchooser-

Updates Euer_Szenenerkenner:

2.3 
- Tool wasn't closing the right way, now videofile access is solved after closeing

version 3.7 is there!

I added bmp support for RIFE and the flowframes gui

If someone needs a manual I'll write one. Plz let me know...

Today  Dain-App 0.48 is there (later for the public)  it should work with 30x0 cards

https://www.patreon.com/DAINAPP

As far as I know if this is   enabled it needs  less VRAM with quite same quality

But rendering can cost more or less time

at first install mediainfo to get real values of your videos

I only use mode 1 so here is my stuff about that:

if your source video for example has 1000 frames (pngs) dain can only interpolate between them

so the last frame can not be interpolated by dain

your interpolated_frames folder must contain 1999  frames

dain has the strange  habit to render in step 3 with the factor between 1999 and 1000 frames

so it renders the outputvideo with factor 1,99 and that has the result that your outputvideo has 59,3 fps

here's a solution: try to copy the last frame of "original_frames" to "interpol_frames" after step 2 (rename it of course)

so that the factor of count of pngs is exactly 2.0 between both folders

if your source has 1000 frames and your interpol folder has 2000 frames all will be right

then run step 3 and you will get 59,94 fps

EDIT: sometimes it can be that dain forgets one frames additionally  then you  must add 2 frames at the interpol-folder

And don't enable the scene detection that will delete frames too

version 3.6 is there

I added a slider to PNG_Player so you can slide through pngs ;)

For your first problem you could try this

https://itch.io/t/976700/finish-with-ugly-transitions-at-scene-changes-the-transitionchooser-

Version    3.5

- now the tool can handle 2x , 3x , 4x and 8x interpolated frames

Transitionchooser 3.0 is released

 Now it can handle with 4x and 2x "interpolated frames"

Version 2.2 of Transitionchooser is released

try 0.40

0.41 and 0.42 have problems with some GPUs.

RAM is not so important

1080p needs 10 GB VRam and more

4k needs round about 40 GB VRam

If you want more answers come to  

https://discord.gg/fF7rcgS

Some guys  tested it with other GPUs    and they say: 1080p needs 10 GB Vram  with  "half precision" enabled

But you can't be sure if it works or not.  Perhaps in some cases  it will   exceed 10 GB and so you have no buffer. But in some days there will be benchs with the new GPUs.

I'd like to introduce you the transitionchooser 3.5 :

It's a tool for users that want to interpolate (2x ; 3x ; 4x and 8x) long movies with Dain.  Dain is cool but on scene changes it produces ugly interpolated frames
that disturb while watching the video.  My tool lists all that transtions in a list and now you can choose which pic should be at a transition (scene change)
- Do you wanna have a blend frame (fading frame(s)   for smooth transition)?!
- Do you want a double frame (the start frame of the next scene will be repeated = doubled) ?!
- Or do  you like the morphed dainpic at this point you can leave it there and no exchange will be done?!
In the preview you can watch each transition (scene change) previous frame, transition frame and nextframe will be shown
with "space"-key you can change each frame to another sort

The workflow will be:" go with cursor down through the list and look at the two frames
"previous" and "next" if there is a ugly frame between change it and go further, so you can
edit quickly a entire movie

When you push the output-button the transitionchooser will put all new frames in a folder
this frames you can copy to the Dain interpolate folder and replace the ugly old frames
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But the transition chooser needs a scene list to know where the scene changes are
this scenecutlist.txt you can create with the tool "Euer_Szenenerkenner"

It detects transitions and you can preview them in a list.
If the result list is too sensitive that means that to many scenes were false detected, than you can increase
dfact and minim values. (to 4.0 or higher)
If the result misses out to many scenes you can decrease the values of "minim" (to 1.5 and lower).
Try to get more sensitive results, If there is a false recognized scene change you can leave the dain frame there in the transitionchooser

  tool "Euer Szenenerkenner"    needs to  install avisynth+   !!!!

https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus/releases/

Support: c-drescher@gmx.de

or come to   https://discord.com/channels/777892450232434688/877551425914306580

https://discord.com/channels/833176731820884048/963287569716621313
and ping me "@ChristianundCo"

requirements:
There mustn't be any inaccurate dublicate frames or missing frames after rendering
If you have a 100 frame sourcevideo so "interpolated_frames"-  folder must contain 199 png-frames (2x) or 397 (4x) png-frames
else it's worthless.

Download:    

(edit) use now the better fork  "Transitionchooser FF Edition"
NEW LINK!!!

https://magentacloud.de/s/rMCAGfrWLP62gxc

No problem, I don't know everything, too. I'm learning by doing. The avisynth - scene change recognition wasn't created by me I only got it to work. But my tool  does  some batch calls. At the moment it's very quick and dirty  programmed and some steps must made manually, but it's a  good and easy solution for me.

In the meantime I found and created my own  solution. I have a goo d avisynth -script, which find scenes (very reliable) an d list them in a textfile. Then I made a tool which reads the textfile and  creates blendframes (with running an avisynthscript) of last an d first frame at scene change. So I replace all mixed frames with blend frames. 

Today I made some tests with scene detection. Well, like others tools too it does'nt work very   reliable. Many scene changes aren't recognized and when I increase the sensitivity nearly every frame is a scene change. So it's worthless to me.  As  I sad, other scene detection tools I tried work equal bad.      Seems we need an AI for detect scene changes. ;)

Or perhaps instead of the mixed frame a simple blendframe, that is the best compromise for scene change...

Thank you for the scene change detection so that there aren't any mixed frames. That's good.

But there must be a frame because otherwise the video gets out of sync with audio.

Yes I saw you change the fps so that that issue is tried to solved. But that's a problem when I interpolate 25.0 fps to 50.0 fps I want to have there 50.0 fps and nothing else like 49.xxx fps or such stuff.

I know how SVP resolves this problem at scene changes :  It dublicates the first frame of the next scene. So the next scene starts with two times the same frame. Is that option possible to build in? "At scence change, just dublicate the next first frame" and thats' it. No audio sync issues anymore.  :)

Today I made some tests with Dain 0.4. Results look great, much better then other frameinterpolation. 

At first I want to interpolate DVD stuff (25 fps, 720*576)  to 50 fps

Which hardware do  I need for more speed? 

RAM: 16 GB or 32 GB? the more the better?

graphic card: best which is  available? (GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or even better?) How much GPU-Ram?

CPU: ? Threadripper or a normal 8 core i5?

Which PC components make sense which can be  cheaper?

What  is the optimal PC for Dain?