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Originally Posted by Starks
1. I have zero idea of which profiles are good for anime. What do most people use?
2. I'm freelancing again so I'm encoding on my own terms for the group (we're a new Negima!? group). Also, what is CRF18?
3. Thanks. I hate having to guesstimate.
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Like I said, the "HQ" profiles that should have come with megui are a good place to start.
CRF is one of the 3 different single pass encoding modes of x264:
CRF = also called "constant quality" is a mode that is supposed to keep relatively constant quality, but not constant "quant". Don't ask exactly how it works, it's complicated and not particularly important. It's a good mode to use when you don't care about filesize, or are testing things to see how compressible they are.
ABR = "average bitrate" is the usual xvid-like 1-pass average bitrate based compression, that adjusts on-the fly to scene complexity and generally gives way worse results then 2-pass encoding
CQ = "constant quant" encodes at a constant quant. I.e. it compresses each frame the same amount. This is different than CRF for complicated reasons and isn't actually that useful at all.