Why do the 2D cutscenes look so bad and low res?

[ROMÁRIO 11]

I don't remember them looking like that on PS3, even on RPCS3 emulator.

[Red]

They're 720p to begin with, but I have a few guesses as to why they might look bad:
- the player the devs used might not be optimal
- you're using the game's anti-aliasing, which is FXAA and WILL blur everything on screen
- the bitrate might be too low.
If they look blurry and low-res, then it's probably FXAA, if they look blocky it's likely the bitrate.

[buttered_toast]

cutscenes are lower bitrate on PC than PS3
https://imgur.com/a/6hdlKq8

[Trypetide]

Originally posted by buttered_toast:

cutscenes are lower bitrate on PC than PS3
https://imgur.com/a/6hdlKq8

Whoaw... Indeed.
They just put their videos in an express encoding soft and basta... That's still a thing in 2019, nice.

You should post that in the "bug" thread just in case~

[Red]

Originally posted by Tea:

Originally posted by Red:

They're 720p to begin with, but I have a few guesses as to why they might look bad:
- the player the devs used might not be optimal
- you're using the game's anti-aliasing, which is FXAA and WILL blur everything on screen
- the bitrate might be too low.
If they look blurry and low-res, then it's probably FXAA, if they look blocky it's likely the bitrate.

thanks, that fixed my issue

You're welcome :)

Originally posted by buttered_toast:

cutscenes are lower bitrate on PC than PS3
https://imgur.com/a/6hdlKq8

Originally posted by Trypetide:

You should post that in the "bug" thread just in case~

Darn... Well, I hope that request will be taken into consideration, even though it's not a bug in itself :|

Originally posted by Trypetide:

They just put their videos in an express encoding soft and basta... That's still a thing in 2019, nice.

If it's not express encoding, they at least forced the videos to have a bitrate of 4000 kbits/s...

[Kabra]

So disabling FXAA makes the Cutscenes look better?

[Red]

Originally posted by Kabraxis:

So disabling FXAA makes the Cutscenes look better?

Apparently it does (haven't tried it myself yet). To make the in-game cutscenes look less blurry though, you'll need to disable the Depth of Field option.

[Trypetide]

Originally posted by Red:

Darn... Well, I hope that request will be taken into consideration, even though it's not a bug in itself :|

When I said to post there, it's only because there aren't any proper way of being shown ASAP than this one thread. And in a sense, it's a "problem" so bug or not, it needs to be fixed because that's really fugly to look at... blerg.

Originally posted by Red:

If it's not express encoding, they at least forced the videos to have a bitrate of 4000 kbits/s...

Don't forget that's also not the same type of codec compared to what you could find on Playstation 3/Xbox 360. So that + less bitrate, no chance to have something "proper"...

You could console yourself by thinking that the "Full Body" version will have updated videos lol

[Red]

Originally posted by Trypetide:

Originally posted by Red:

Darn... Well, I hope that request will be taken into consideration, even though it's not a bug in itself :|

When I said to post there, it's only because there aren't any proper way of being shown ASAP than this one thread. And in a sense, it's a "problem" so bug or not, it needs to be fixed because that's really fugly to look at... blerg.

Alright, I'll post on the bug report thread about audio and video quality.

Originally posted by Trypetide:

Originally posted by Red:

If it's not express encoding, they at least forced the videos to have a bitrate of 4000 kbits/s...

Don't forget that's also not the same type of codec compared to what you could find on Playstation 3/Xbox 360. So that + less bitrate, no chance to have something "proper"...

You could console yourself by thinking that the "Full Body" version will have updated videos lol

That's only true if they used the console version's files though, if they have the master files it's just their mistake. But yeah, I hope the Full Body version will have higher quality videos too.

[Trypetide]

Quality lower than past consoles' versions, that are obviously lower than the master itself.
In both cases it's their mistakes, if you think about it =]

[Red]

Originally posted by Trypetide:

Quality lower than past consoles' versions, that are obviously lower than the master itself.
In both cases it's their mistakes, if you think about it =]

True x)

[ROMÁRIO 11]

Originally posted by Red:

Originally posted by Tea:

thanks, that fixed my issue

You're welcome :)

Originally posted by buttered_toast:

cutscenes are lower bitrate on PC than PS3
https://imgur.com/a/6hdlKq8

Originally posted by Trypetide:

You should post that in the "bug" thread just in case~

Darn... Well, I hope that request will be taken into consideration, even though it's not a bug in itself :|

Originally posted by Trypetide:

They just put their videos in an express encoding soft and basta... That's still a thing in 2019, nice.

If it's not express encoding, they at least forced the videos to have a bitrate of 4000 kbits/s...

What if we ripped the original cutscenes and audio from the PS3 disc then converted them to .wmv or whatever the PC port uses? That way we would get better quality right?

[Red]

Originally posted by YamatoKKW:

What if we ripped the original cutscenes and audio from the PS3 disc then converted them to .wmv or whatever the PC port uses? That way we would get better quality right?

Depends on the codec the original uses. If you can rip the files and play them, you should definitely go for it. I don't have the console version nor the knowledge and tools required to rip assets from console games, but I might help with the WMV compression if necessary (even though it's not the codec I'm the most familiar with).

Still, it should only be a temporary solution and the porting team should try and get the best quality they can for the cutscenes (and the audio, too).