Andreea Banica - Sexy (Tootie Master Edit)

Saying that "I spent way too much time on this" is probably an understatement...

This is the most gorgeous music video I have ever seen, picture quality-wise. The original suffered from stutter issues, which I took the time to fix, and was able to do so losslessly, contextually speaking.

Andreea Banica
"Sexy"
Music Video
Tootie Master Edit
Editing by Tootie

Container: MKV

Video:
1080p MJPEG (24.083 fps)
Source:
What was advertised as master copy of music video (Direct stream copy, see notes below)

Audio Stream 1: "Tootie Master Edit" (Default)
FLAC (1006kbps)
Source: Juno Download WAV Download (Original stream with added silence for sync purposes)

Overall average bitrate: 36.1 Mbps


It's apparent that this music video was filmed at 24fps or thereabouts, but was post-processed and mastered at 25fps. This caused the picture to stutter when filmed frames were used twice due to the difference in frame rates. For a while I thought it was the fact that the computer couldn't keep up with the bitrate, but after some investigation I found the source of the problem. I decided to try and fix the issue because I could losslessly work with the video at the frame level since the codec was MJPEG. At first I tried to remove what I'll call double-frames that were in the middle of shots and appending repeat frames of beginning and ending frames of shots to compensate. The result came out worse than the original. So I decided to try and just remove the offending double-frames and see if it could be decently resynced. It worked, and in fact the overall audio/video sync come out a tad bit better than the original.

It's important to note that the original audio/video sync consistency was horrible and that is still evident in this edit. After all this work though, there is a slight improvement.

It is also important to highlight what was done to the video: that distinct frames were removed from the video. There are parts of the video where post-processing movement is used and this tinkering becomes evident, but for most of the video, the only thing affected is the post-processing lighting effects which will not be noticeable during casual viewing of the video, if at all. I individually decided which of the double-frames to delete and chose the one that made the edit less noticeable. There is also at least one spot where film double-frames were not removed due to post-processing effects being the predominant part of the shot, such as the opening title transition