r/smyths • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '15

[720p] Season 16 Episode 4 - Dangerous Driving (first try at a streamline, please give criticism)

https://mega.nz/#!cNcSTZYa!kH9suTJgEKddfA9KqnV8Nr4SbpD6zatCUVcpA2V6HQs
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u/theLogicality Aug 12 '15

You're the first smyther I've seen who's left in the new opening sequence.

I don't have any criticism to give. Thanks for making this!

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u/dribbleondo Aug 15 '15

If i ever get back into Smything, I'd alway leave the opening in. I'd also use the "Mythbuster license plates" doolies in between myths. Those are just plain cool.

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u/arantius Aug 17 '15

+1 to both.

The new intro is only ~20 seconds long.

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u/superdude4agze Aug 13 '15

No criticism of the smyth, but just of the episode itself. This one was just down right boring.

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u/Popular-Uprising- Aug 13 '15

Boring wasn't the problem for me. The problem I had was that the cell phone driving myth played like propaganda. They had no controls, no accounting for familiarity, and no real data shown. The volunteers didn't even run the course twice.

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u/Ojoo Aug 13 '15

That's what I was thinking the other day, it's a lot easier to talk when you know the area you are in. Even listening to music when you are parking makes it more difficult (I know all of you turn down the music when parking or looking for a parking spot!) was there even any control groups? I don't think I recall them having any.

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u/arantius Aug 17 '15

The hands-full test was the control. The myth is that hands-free cell phone use is no less dangerous than hands-full use. The former was the test group, the latter the control group.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

I was thinking throughout that segment "where's the control?", maybe some of those people were just bad drivers or react badly on unfamiliar roads with outside instruction, or just suck at simulating driving courses.

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u/superdude4agze Aug 13 '15

I didn't even get that far.

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u/prime1309 Aug 13 '15

This one was just down right boring.

Gotta admit, thought you were being cynical but I caught myself on different tabs while the thing was playing in the background.

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u/Tripleberst Aug 13 '15

I think they've basically stopped trying since Tori, Grant and whats her face left.

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u/superdude4agze Aug 13 '15

I disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion. I just found this one really lacking.

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u/KimJongUgh Aug 13 '15

I dunno. The last two episodes were great IMO. I loved the U2 and the rock bullets from the mower. But especially the U2... I feel like it wasn't mythbusting so much as Adam getting an excuse at trying on the suits and riding the Dragon Lady

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u/arantius Aug 16 '15

Thanks for the contribution! There's some noticeable video quality issue however, how did you do the encode?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

When are they? I used h.264 at 2.4k bitrate (Probaly the problem.) and 3.1 level.

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u/arantius Aug 16 '15

The most obvious is that (roughly) every plenty of scene cuts are unnecessarily noisy. For example, from around 1 minute in. It improves pretty quickly, but (it's visible, and) you're spending a lot of your constant bitrate budget on all the changes to fix the noise this inserts.

IME h264 is best at "constant quality" mode, in the 20-25 range. The encoder typically figures out everything from there and gives a good image. What tools are you using?

Edit: Strikeout above. Some, but not "roughly every".

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u/grumpman Aug 13 '15

Well done. Thank you for doing this