DZ Studios Iron Chef Tournament - Round 2 -

[mirkosp]

Filesize is not something to judge quality by. It's one of those assumptions that people tend to make: "OH IT WEIGHTS MORE IT MUST BE BETTER!!1" and comments alike.
I swear the best troll I've ever seen was someone releasing as 4320p120 HuffYUV+FLAC a 540p24 thing. I'm not sure if somebody actually ended up getting it, but lulz were had either way.

[Nya-chan Production]

Ya Idk what happened my round one vid was only 30mb in size.

If YOU don't know what happened, it must mean only thing.

You don't know anything about encoding |:

That doesnt mean I dont know anything. I have a full amv in mp4 thats only 30 mb in size. I might of just messed something up by mistake this time. Im not completely knowledged in it but I know some stuff.

Still, you should know "what" went wrong, if you don't know "what" went wrong you work just by trial-error method which means you don't know anything about it.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

If I made a a small mistake some where along the lines of the process theres no way I can go back and completely check everything I did. So there's a possibility I could never find what I messed up on this time.

[Nya-chan Production]

There are only two thing which really decide the final filesize.

1) Footage itself - it's larger if you use lots of effects, grain, more fps, bigger picture...
2) Encoding - larger if you screw up or if you decide not to care about filesize.

Everything else doesn't matter, afaik.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

I used grain and some minor film effects for the first like 10-15 seconds or so. But I don't see how that would've caused it to get that much larger than what I was expecting it to be. About almost 30 MB. I did change the quanitizer in Zarx, so maybe that's what effected it. Idk if compressing the video in the editing program before encoding it in Zarx affects it all.

[Nya-chan Production]

I did change the quanitizer in Zarx(...)

If you went under 18, definitely. At 10 we almost speak about lossless mp4 here.

[Orestes]

I did change the quanitizer in Zarx(...)

If you went under 18, definitely. At 10 we almost speak about lossless mp4 here.

pshh..
2 pass @ 9000kbps or gtfo

[mirkosp]

I did change the quanitizer in Zarx(...)

If you went under 18, definitely. At 10 we almost speak about lossless mp4 here.

pshh..
2 pass @ 9000kbps or gtfo

Quit trolling. It's not funny.
Anyway, we don't really speak about lossless H.264 unless we do --crf 0 or --qp 0. Anything else might be visually lossless, but isn't a bit exact copy, thus can't be called lossless.
Fun fact: lossless H.264 actually fucks up in NLEs ─ after tryng, I can say that it is no option for editing ;_; ─ but lossy doesn't fuck up, so a --crf 1 -I 1 (so an intra-only lossy H.264 file with an insane bitrate) works (and premiere actually humps it like a bitch better than it likes lags or huffy). It probably weights more than the lossless counterpart, too.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Lol whats goin on this here contest.

[SilkAMV]

Iliea and FC had their match. Should be getting judged.