Quu wrote:TMPGEnc was, sadly, the best option at the time
but times change, and we all adapt. Does the Zarx gui support presets? IE can there be a "Convention/Archive" preset and a "Web Release" preset? I have not played with it very much, since I am trying to avoid the "GUI"s in my testing, and focus on the components.
I ususally just set the quantizer to about 10 and audio bitrate to the highest setting when converting an mp4 for convention purposes. TBH I'd like to find a compression scheme that has good video quality and takes up less space than the mpeg-2 archive we've been using. A 5 minute video takes approximatly 300 megs which I've seen 30 minute HD fansubs take up less space and have really beautiful picture quality. Though I admit to get that level of quality I may need to use more than Zarx but the whole technical aspect of video compression is not something I've been too interested in. No knock on Zarx intended, I love how it's simplified and the quality is good enough for me but I understand that if one manually sets their x264 settings and actually know what they're doing they can push a much better quality.


