Selur's Little Message Board

I know that one can verify the Filter Order at Filtering--Vapoursynth--Misc--Filter/Order Queue. And also, one can view the Vapoursynth Script by pressing the document-looking icon, which will allow one to see the order of filters being used.

In both cases, I see that the QTGMC deinterlace occurs before the resize and denoise, which I understand is the best practice.

My question: Is there any benefit to deinterlacing to a new file, and then importing that new file and applying the resize and denoise, etc.? Or does the smart order in which Hybrid creates the script make that uncessary?

Note: I assume that you would take a lossless intermediate file.

Using an intermediate file:
pro: if you are on a low-end system for what you want to do, using multiple intermediate step might be the best approach to get things done.
con: huge intermediate files; less flexibility to see whether rearranging of filters might be yield better results.

Personally, I only use intermediate files if
a. I beforehand made sure that the filter order etc. is what I want to do heavy filtering and using all these filters would take too long or eat too many resources.
b. there are clear stages in my processing, that require external tools. (i.e. needing to use a NLE to replace single frames, add animations/effects,...)
=> if you are unsure, about it, you probably should not use intermediate file in my opinion. Quality wise, there is no gain in using intermediate files.

Cu Selur

Ps.: moved thread to 'Small Talk'.