ConditionalFilter (clip testclip, clip source1, clip source2, string expression1, string operator, string expression2, bool "show")
ConditionalFilter returns source1 when the condition formed by "expression1+operator+expression2" is met for current frame, otherwise it returns source2. If any function in expression1 or expression2 is not explicitly applied to a clip, it will be applied on testclip. The audio is taken from source1.
An example. This will choose frames from vid_blur when the average luma value of a frame is less than 20. Otherwise frames from vid will be returned.
vid = AviSource("file")
vid_blur = vid.Blur(1.5)
ConditionalFilter(vid, vid_blur, vid, "AverageLuma()", "lessthan", "20")Adding show="true" will display the actual values on the screen.
The strings expression1 and expression2 can be any numeric or boolean expressions, and may include internal or user functions, as well as some additional functions which are predefined (the Runtime Functions) and the special runtime variable current_frame (the framenumber of the requested frame).
The string operator can be "equals", "greaterthan" or "lessthan". Or "=",">" or "<" respectively.
ScriptClip (clip, string filter, bool "show", bool "after_frame")
ScriptClip returns the clip returned by the filter evaluated on every frame. The string filter can be any expression returning a clip, including internal or user clip functions, and may include line breaks (allowing a sequence of statements to be evaluated). Also, also some functions which are predefined (the Runtime Functions) and the special runtime variable current_frame (the framenumber of the requested frame) can be used in the filter expression. Adding show="true" will display the actual values on the screen.
# This will print the difference from the previous frame onto the current one:
clip = AviSource("c:\file.avi")
ScriptClip(clip, "Subtitle(String(YDifferenceFromPrevious))")
# This will apply blur on each frame based on the difference from the previous.
# This will also show how errors are reported on some frames :)
clip = AviSource("c:\file.avi")
ScriptClip(clip, "Blur(YDifferenceFromPrevious/20.0)")
# This will apply temporalsoften to very static scenes, and apply a _variable_ blur on moving scenes.
# Blur is now capped properly. We also assign a variable - and this is why a line break is inserted:
function fmin(float f1, float f2) {
return (f1<f2) ? f1 : f2
}
clip = AviSource("c:\file.avi")
T = clip.TemporalSoften(2, 7, 7, 3, 2)
ScriptClip(clip, "diff = YDifferenceToNext()"+chr(13)+"diff>2.5 ? Blur(fmin(diff/20, 1.5)) : T")
# Shows the frame-number in a clip:
ScriptClip("subtitle(string(current_frame))")
# Shows 'frame = the frame-number' in a clip:
ScriptClip("""subtitle("frame = " + string(current_frame))""")In v2.55 an after_frame=true/false option to is added. This determines if the script should be evaluated before (default operation) or after the frame has been fetched from the filters above.
"Restrictions": the output of the script MUST be exactly like the clip delivered to ScriptClip(same colorspace, width and height). Your returned clip is allowed to have different length - but the length from "clip" is always used. Audio from "clip" is passed through untouched. For two very different sources (MPEG2DEC3 and AviSource) - you might run into colorspace mismatches. This is known quirk.
FrameEvaluate (clip clip, script filter, bool "after_frame")
Similar to ScriptClip, except the output of the filter is ignored. This can be used for assigning variables, etc. Frames are passed directly through from the supplied clip.
In v2.53 an after_frame=true/false option to is added. This determines if the script should be evaluated before (default operation) or after the frame has been fetched from the filters above.
This filter allows you to import arbitrary information into a selectable variable.
See the dedicated ConditionalReader page.
These are the internal functions which are evaluated every frame.
These will return the average pixel value of a plane (require YV12, ISSE):AverageLuma (clip)AverageChromaU (clip)AverageChromaV (clip)
These return a float value between 0 and 255 of the absolute difference between two planes (require YV12, ISSE):RGBDifference (clip1, clip2)LumaDifference (clip1, clip2)ChromaUDifference (clip1, clip2)ChromaVDifference (clip1, clip2)
When using these functions there is an "implicit last" clip (first parameter doesn't have to be specified), so the first parameter is replaced by the testclip.
These should be quite handy for detecting scene change transitions:RGBDifferenceFromPrevious (clip)YDifferenceFromPrevious (clip)UDifferenceFromPrevious (clip)VDifferenceFromPrevious (clip)RGBDifferenceToNext (clip)YDifferenceToNext (clip)UDifferenceToNext (clip)VDifferenceToNext (clip)
# This will replace the last frame before a scenechange # with the first frame after the scenechange: ConditionalFilter(last, last, last.trim(1,0), "YDifferenceToNext()", ">", "10", true)
YPlaneMax (clip, float threshold)UPlaneMax (clip, float threshold)VPlaneMax (clip, float threshold)YPlaneMin (clip, float threshold)UPlaneMin (clip, float threshold)VPlaneMin (clip, float threshold)YPlaneMedian (clip)UPlaneMedian (clip)VPlaneMedian (clip)YPlaneMinMaxDifference (clip, float threshold)UPlaneMinMaxDifference (clip, float threshold)VPlaneMinMaxDifference (clip, float threshold)
Threshold is a percentage, on how many percent of the pixels are allowed above or below minimum. The threshold is optional and defaults to 0.
If you understand the stuff above, you can proceed with "advanced conditional filtering", which tells you a little bit more about conditional filtering.
You will have to know a few things about the functionality of AviSynth to understand this section:
Scripts are parsed from top to bottom, but when a frame is requested the last filter is actually being invoked first, requesting frames upwards in the filter chain. For example:
AviSource("myfile.avi")
ColorYUV(analyze=true)
Histogram() When opening the script in Vdub the following happensSo the filter chain basically works backwards (the output is 'pulled' from below rather than 'pushed' from above), which gives each filter the possibility to request several frames from the source above. Conditional filters however, need to evaluate scripts before they request frames from the filter above, because they need to know which filter to call. Another important issue is that only global defined variables in the conditional filter 'environment' can be used outside (and vice versa). Have a look at the following script
v = AviSource("E:\Temp\Test3\atomic_kitten.avi").ConvertToYV12
function g(clip c)
{
global w = c
c2 = ScriptClip(c, "subtitle(t)")
c3 = FrameEvaluate(c2, "t = String(text)")
c4 = FrameEvaluate(c3, "text = YDifferenceFromPrevious(w)")
return c4
}
g(v) This filter chain works like this:v = AviSource("E:\Temp\Test3\atomic_kitten.avi").ConvertToYV12
function g(clip c)
{
global w = c
c2 = ScriptClip(c, "subtitle(t)")
c3 = FrameEvaluate(c2, "me()")
c4 = FrameEvaluate(c3, "global text = YDifferenceFromPrevious(w)")
return c4
}
function me()
{
global t = String(text)
}
g(v)This is just an illustration to demonstrate the various features. Much of the script above is redundant, and can be removed. The following two scripts give the same output v = AviSource("c:\clip.avi")
# ScriptClip accepts multi-line scripts:
Scriptclip(v,"
text = YDifferenceFromPrevious()
t = string(text)
subtitle(t)
")v = AviSource("c:\clip.avi")
ScriptClip(v, "Subtitle(String(YDifferenceFromPrevious))")In the following section some frame dependent info will be written to a text-file.In the following example, some frame dependent info will be written to a text-file. The first variable "a" indicates whether the frame is combed (for a certain threshold). Note that IsCombed is a filter from the Decomb plugin. The second variable "b" indicates whether there is "much" movement in the frame.
global sep="."
global combedthreshold=25
function IsMoving()
{
global b = (diff < 1.0) ? false : true
}
function CombingInfo(clip c)
{
file = "F:\interlace.log"
global clip = c
c = WriteFile(c, file, "a", "sep", "b")
c = FrameEvaluate(c, "global a = IsCombed(clip, combedthreshold)")
c = FrameEvaluate(c, "IsMoving")
c = FrameEvaluate(c, "global diff = 0.50*YDifferenceFromPrevious(clip) + 0.25*UDifferenceFromPrevious(clip) + 0.25*VDifferenceFromPrevious(clip)")
return c
}
v = mpeg2source("F:\From_hell\from_hell.d2v").trim(100,124)
CombingInfo(v)We can tidy up the two functions, and remove global variables, by writing them as follows:
function IsMoving(float diff)
{
return (diff >= 1.0)
}
function CombingInfo(clip c)
{
file = "F:\interlace.log"
c = WriteFile(c, file, "a", "sep", "b")
c = FrameEvaluate(c,"
diff = 0.50*YDifferenceFromPrevious() + 0.25*UDifferenceFromPrevious() + 0.25*VDifferenceFromPrevious()
b = IsMoving(diff)
a = IsCombed(combedthreshold)
")
return c
}In the following section an example of "adaptive motion/resizing filter" will be considered.
Some adaptive motion/resizing filters appeared on the forums. These filters discriminate between low, medium and high motion in a clip (on frame basis). By doing that, different filters can be used for different kind of motion in the clip. In general, one should use temporal smoothing in low motion scenes, spatial smoothing in high motion scenes and use spatio-temporal smoothing in medium motion scenes.
Below, a simplified version of QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER v1.5 b1 (10/07/2003) by HomiE FR, is given:
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# QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER v1.3
# LOADING AVISYNTH PLUGINS
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\mpeg2dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\TemporalCleaner.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\FluxSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\UnFilter.dll")
# LOADING QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER SCRIPT
Import("E:\temp\QMF\qmf.avs")
# LOW MOTION FILTER FUNCTION
# -> SHARP RESIZING + TEMPORAL ONLY
function Low_Motion_Filter(clip c)
{
c = TemporalCleaner(c, 5, 10)
c = LanczosResize(c, 512, 272)
return c
}
# MEDIUM MOTION FILTER FUNCTION
# -> NEUTRAL BICUBIC RESIZING + TEMPORAL & SPATIAL
function Medium_Motion_Filter(clip c)
{
c = FluxSmooth(c, 7, 7)
c = BicubicResize(c, 512, 272, 0.00, 0.50)
return c
}
# HIGH MOTION FILTER FUNCTION
# -> SOFT RESIZING + SPATIAL ONLY
function High_Motion_Filter(clip c)
{
c = FluxSmooth(c, -1, 14)
c = UnFilter(c, -30, -30)
c = BilinearResize(c, 512, 272)
return c
}
# OPENING VIDEO SOURCE
AviSource("E:\temp\QMF\britney-I_love_rock_'n_roll.avi")
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
Telecide(0)
# APPLYING ADAPTATIVE RESIZING FILTER (USING QMF)
QMF()
----------------------------------------------------
# QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER (17/08/2003) by HomiE FR ([email protected])
# MOTION ESTIMATION FUNCTION
function ME()
{
# SETTING MOTION LEVEL ACCORDING TO AVERAGE DIFFERENCE [1]
global motion_level = (diff < threshold_lm) ? 0 : motion_level
global motion_level = (diff >= threshold_lm && diff <= threshold_hm) ? 1 : motion_level
global motion_level = (diff > threshold_hm) ? 2 : motion_level
}
# QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER FUNCTION
function QMF(clip c, float "threshold_lm", float "threshold_hm", bool "debug")
{
# SETTING MOTION LEVELS THRESHOLDS [2]
threshold_lm = default(threshold_lm, 4.0)
threshold_hm = default(threshold_hm, 12.0)
global threshold_lm = threshold_lm
global threshold_hm = threshold_hm
# ENABLING/DISABLING DEBUG INFORMATION [3]
debug = default(debug, false)
# INITIALIZING MOTION LEVEL
global motion_level = 0
# SETTING PRESENT CLIP [4]
global clip = c
# GETTING OUTPUT RESOLUTION [5]
width = Width(Low_Motion_Filter(c))
height = Height(Low_Motion_Filter(c))
global c_resized = PointResize(c, width, height)
# APPLYING MOTION FILTER ACCORDING TO MOTION LEVEL [6]
c = ConditionalFilter(c, Low_Motion_Filter(c), c_resized, "motion_level", "=", "0") # [6a]
c = ConditionalFilter(c, Medium_Motion_Filter(c), c, "motion_level", "=", "1") # [6b]
c = ConditionalFilter(c, High_Motion_Filter(c), c, "motion_level", "=", "2") # [6c]
# PRINTING DEBUG INFORMATION [7]
c = (debug == true) ? ScriptClip(c, "Debug()") : c
# GETTING MOTION LEVEL THROUGH MOTION ESTIMATION [8]
c = FrameEvaluate(c, "ME()")
# GETTING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PAST/PRESENT FRAMES [9]
c = FrameEvaluate(c, "global diff = 0.50*YDifferenceFromPrevious(clip) + 0.25*UDifferenceFromPrevious(clip) + 0.25*VDifferenceFromPrevious(clip)")
return c
}
# DEBUG INFORMATION FUNCTION
function Debug(clip c)
{
# PRINTING VERSION INFORMATION [10]
c = Subtitle(c, "Quantified Motion Filter", x=20, y=30, font="lucida console", size=18, text_color=$FFFFFF)
c = Subtitle(c, "by HomiE FR ([email protected])", x=20, y=45, font="lucida console", size=14, text_color=$FFFFFF)
# PRINTING MOTION ESTIMATION INFORMATION [11]
c = Subtitle(c, "motion estimation", x=20, y=85, font="lucida console", size=18, text_color=$FFFFFF)
c = Subtitle(c, "diff = "+string(diff), x=20,y=110, font="lucida console", size=16, text_color=$FFCCCC)
# PRINTING QUANTIFIED MOTION FILTER INFORMATION [12]
c = Subtitle(c, "quantified motion filter", x=20, y=135, font="lucida console", size=18, text_color=$FFFFFF)
c = (motion_level == 0) ? Subtitle(c, "scene type = low motion", x=20, y=160, font="lucida console", size=16, text_color=$66FF66) : c
c = (motion_level == 1) ? Subtitle(c, "scene type = medium motion", x=20, y=160, font="lucida console", size=16, text_color=$66FF66) : c
c = (motion_level == 2) ? Subtitle(c, "scene type = high motion", x=20, y=160, font="lucida console", size=16, text_color=$66FF66) : c
return c
}
---------------------------------------------------- This filter chain works like this:A few details were omitted, but this is how the script basically works.
$Date: 2008/12/21 09:23:02 $