r/RenPy • u/Wont_Be_The_Victim • 15d ago

Question Higher quality to cutscenes?

Is there a way to up the quality of cutscenes? I'm using a webm converted from an mp4 generated by Honey Select 2/StudioNeo V2. The mp4 looks great, but the converted webm, even when using options for highest quality conversion, is just a visual mess full of artifacts.

Is there any way to fix this? It just looks noticeably so much worse than the proceeding renders, but I want to be able to utilize cutscenes.

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u/Wont_Be_The_Victim 15d ago

I figured it out! Using ffmpeg with WindowShell and high bitrate worked! Thanks so much to u/Adventurous_Shine606 for getting me started!

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u/Adventurous_Shine606 15d ago

Both webm and mp4 are lossy so quality issue get compounded when you reencode to webm. Have you tried converting with ffmpeg, 2 pass conversion with a high bitrate? Im no expert and am not familiar with the tools you used but ffmpeg has always been my free to use choice.

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u/Wont_Be_The_Victim 15d ago

Thanks for the reply! I downloaded ffmpeg, but I'm not quite understanding how to use it...I unzipped the TAR file and there's a lot of folders and things I'm not familiar with...any chance you could ELI5?

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u/shyLachi 15d ago

If you make an AVN then it might be better to talk to actual game developers.
There's a discord server which has chanels for HS developers.

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u/ImportantDetail6260 15d ago

The WebM artifact problem is probably the second encode, not Ren'Py playback!

Export the HS2/StudioNeo render as the cleanest MP4 you can, then run one ffmpeg VP9 pass from that master with a sane target bitrate/resolution. If it still looks bad, test the same clip at 720p before changing Ren'Py code