
Quit Trying To Do The Impossible: Editors are not "Final" Encoders.Mini-ru wrote:I cant get my new AMVs under 400mb
post-it wrote:Quit Trying To Do The Impossible: Editors are not "Final" Encoders.Mini-ru wrote:I cant get my new AMVs under 400mb
Virtual Dub "best at doing this" back in 1997-2002 .. but; not any more! Details are now "Of More Importance!"
Any editing program will produce a fairly sharp image on your AMV. Use a LossLess Codec Please.
.. what most people forget is that there is a "Finishing Step" to Making an AMV. The Guides' still mention its' step-by-step processes!
.. .. when we started making AMV's here 10 years ago, 480 X 360 was the normal size. Our cleaning steps worked.
Today, 2011, we have ZarxGUI to reduce the total size without destroying all the hard you put into it. There are
only a hand-full of people who can compress "Large Video Bulk" into a "Small File Container" and LantisEscudo's
right; Zarx is one of them.
PS .. People; please do not try to save space by shrinking your AMV by yourself -- if you don't know how!
Let people like Zarx, Zero and CandyMan do it for you. They have gone to School to learn how to do it.
.. so take advantage for their generosity -- they made the ZarxGUI specifically "to solve this problem!"
Mister Hatt wrote:Formal education teaches you pretty much everything that is industry standard, and thus a terrible way to do almost anything. What you need is x264 with a relevant rate factor for your content. x264 --preset slower --tune animation --crf 18 is a good place to start, tweak the CRF for starters, smaller numbers improve quality but make it a lot larger, and it's an effective enough control that you can use decimals for noticable difference. If your source is particularly grainy, play with rdo and possibly qpmin or mbtree to compress it better while retaining grain. If it's particularly flat in some places, adjust AQ strength to re-allocate bits more effectively and increase compression without blocking it up.
THAT's what I've been looking for ^__^Mister Hatt wrote:.. x264 --preset slower --tune animation --crf 18 is a good place to start .. If it's particularly flat in some places, adjust AQ strength to re-allocate bits more effectively and increase compression without blocking it up.
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