(messienc) michael (messienc) what bitrate does the encode come out at? yo it's kinda high right now, I thought I might be able to drop it and up the psy-rd/trellis to add more detail in the faces and non-background areas right now that's at 57.47% of the source bitrate 18310 kbps vs 31858 kbps here are the settings I'm using BTW Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=11 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.15:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bfr ames=11 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=240 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.5 / qcomp=0.80 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=38000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.50 except I actually have rc_lookahead=250 but it drops down to 240 on the mediainfo :\ wtf (messienc) rc_lookahead=250 the max you can use is 240, so it sets it back down lol oh lol first of all what'd you think of the compares (messienc) yeah, make aq=1:0.8 to make the backgrounds a bit better (messienc) I think they're great (messienc) looks better than my encode (messienc) but i wasn't going for transparency in mine (messienc) thats why i havent uploaded it :/ (messienc) actually use aq=1:>1 (messienc) kind of annoys me people using below that I did a few tests with aq=1:(0.5,0.6,0.8,1.0,1.2) (messienc) yeah, you'll get good results in the foreground but the backgrounds will not be as good (messienc) the whole picture deserves all of the bitrate :P well, I was focusing in on the backgrounds of the first screen (messienc) screens look really good though, stick with those settings then that's right, just remembered I took aq down from .8 when I took qcomp from .7 to .8 to compensate I don't think they're perfect yet :\ I thought I had the backgrounds on point but needed to touch up the grain shift on the faces and foregrounds Encoding settings: cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=11 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=11 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=240 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=38000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.80 (messienc) how has trellis affected the source, changed that from default? you mean psy_rd? (messienc) psy_rd=1.00:0.?? ahh... umm the test I'm running right now I just upped it from psy_rd=1.15:05 and changed from umh64 to tesa48 I know I adjusted it on an earlier test though hold on fuck I haven't changed it since I swapped from 2pass to crf I mean I upped it to 1.15:05 not from lol shit since I have you here, I'm gonna stop this tesa and just run the encode from the SS's I gave you with psy_rd=1.15:0.15 and umh wtf how long does it take to abort this shit (messienc) haha, aborted yet? (messienc) sometimes it just hangs (messienc) i g2g in a few mins just had to stop the process (messienc) need to get ready, mate's bday damn that sucks for me... encode should be done in 15-20min