NieR:Automata™

NieR:Automata™

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Vidsquish (Formerly NieRepack) - Compress and customize Nier: Automata cutscenes to suit your screen!
Door Lulech23
Save hard drive space, improve in-game cutscene performance, and customize videos to suit non-standard aspect ratios with this all-in-one, easy-to-use tool!
   
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Introduction
Nier: Automata uses a number of pre-rendered cutscenes which are encoded in an MPEG-type format at ultra-high bitrates, resulting in inefficient videos that occupy a large amount of space and may perform poorly depending on your hardware. Furthermore, the game engine was not designed to crop or letterbox videos on non-16:9 displays, resulting in stretching for some users. While some limitations inherent to the game itself prevent solving all issues without an official patch, with the right tool, users can still enjoy an improved video experience better suited to their needs.

Formerly NieRepack, Vidsquish now provides an easy-to-use GUI to do just this, with all the necessary tools packed right in. Check it out at the official Steam group:


Features
  • Easy-to-use GUI with all the necessary tools packed right in
  • Pause/resume support for long conversions
  • Support for three levels of compression, offering everyone the ideal compromise of filesize and image quality
  • Two resolution profiles to further tune size versus quality
  • Letterbox and crop options for 21:9, 16:10, 3:2, and 4:3 aspect ratios
  • Optionally upconvert framerate to 60 FPS using either frame blending or advanced motion estimation
Download
Vidsquish is available to download from the official Steam group.

It is highly recommended to use this new version as it offers features and updates not available to NieRepack.

Still want to use NieRepack anyway? It can be downloaded either here[dl.dropboxusercontent.com] or here[drive.google.com].
Setup
Vidsquish does not require installation. Simply download extract the application to the directory of your choice and run Vidsquish.exe

It is highly recommended to make a backup of your original video files if you have the free space for it. Vidsquish is safe to use and will not likely corrupt your data if it is interrupted, but depending on the features you select there may be no going back to your videos' original state. Alternatively, if you don't have the free space for a backup, you can always run a Verify Integrity of Game Files operation to restore the original videos from the internet.
Demo
Vidsquish Demonstration (Please view in 60 FPS!)

NieRepack High Compression

NieRepack 21:9 Cropped @ 60 FPS Frame-blended
Credits
  • Special thanks to user Breedloved for introducing me to the tools that initially made this possible!

  • Vidsquish is based on ffmpeg, utf_tab, Scaleform, and sfdmux.
Updates
Vidsquish version 0.9
  • Added full GUI
  • NieRepack now supports multiple games, so please check the Steam group for further updates!

Version 2.12
  • Changed all resolutions to multiples of 8 to prevent crashes with medianoche.exe

Version 2.11
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.10 causing crop conversions to fail

Version 2.10
  • Added option for 720p
  • Internal code revisions for cleanliness

Version 2.00
  • Total rewrite
  • VGMToolbox no longer necessary
  • Added options for compression, framerate, aspect ratio, and crop

Version 1.00
  • Initial release
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383 opmerkingen
tortoise 31 okt 2023 om 0:39 
Gotcha, cheers.
Lulech23  [auteur] 30 okt 2023 om 19:17 
@tortoise - Yes, that's normal. The GPU isn't utilized at all, and only certain stages of the process can utilize multiple CPU cores. It's a limitation of the video codecs themselves. As a workaround, the latest version of Vidsquish allows multi-processing, so you can encode multiple videos at once if you've got the threads for it.
tortoise 30 okt 2023 om 6:58 
...Is it normal for the conversions to take so damn long? I have a 4080 and a high-end CPU, yet it's still taken me about 2-3 hours to get 11% of the way there. It definitely feels like the software isn't using all of my hardware, properly.
Lulech23  [auteur] 5 okt 2022 om 23:24 
The cutscenes contain video only, no audio and no subtitles. Those are composited in the game itself, so whatever you're seeing is being rendered graphically. I don't recall anything like that myself, though.
murla 5 okt 2022 om 7:11 
I've checked the cut scenes in 21:9, there are pillar boxes on both left/right edges, this is good.

I still get shaded top/bottom of the videos, it's like there should be subtitles on top of them. Can't say whether it has something to do with 21:9 aspect ratio though, maybe it's the same in 16:9?
Lulech23  [auteur] 30 sep 2022 om 18:11 
lol! Sorry, missed the L :steamfacepalm:
murla 30 sep 2022 om 8:52 
muria sounds Spanish, but it's okay :)

Thanks for the reply. I'll check the cutscenes myself.
Lulech23  [auteur] 29 sep 2022 om 18:32 
@muria - Despite promising updated cutscenes in the patch, no changes were made, so you'll still have to mod them yourself for 21:9 and 60 FPS.

Still no plans for GitHub, but you can find Vidsquish on NexusMods now!
murla 29 sep 2022 om 10:24 
Also, OP, you can still use GitHub for README.md + binary releases if you're not willing to open source the utility. Surely it's not true open source (which would be ideal, but this is up to you ofc), but still fine.
murla 29 sep 2022 om 10:22 
Is this tool still relevant for ultrawide (21:9 in my case)?

Does the game stretches video after the 2021 summer update?

Patch notes say it's been fixed:

> they will now play in 60FPS and display in the correct aspect ratio without stretching the picture.

And I don't care about videos size and 60 fps, so probably I can live without VidSquish, right?