Encoding Animation

[prnoct90]

I am new to encoding, and I was wondering what are good setting for encoding animation from a DVD. I will be working with anime and also I will be using megui. I want to really learn how to "professionally" encode, but I've never done it before. Any advice, tips, help, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Also, using filters and such is fine, but like i said, I've never encoded before.

[Adub]

First of all, welcome to the forums!!

If you want to learn about filtering, specifically anime and so on, I suggest you read threads from the Avisynth Usage section. In addition run a search for anime filtering, and you will receive a huge amount of information.

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[prnoct90]

I know, this is just for my own practice. And thank you for the welcome. I will read the rules.

[prnoct90]

I would like to work with R2 anime dvds. My goal is to create advanced, "professional" encodes, so I want to work with all of the hard stuff. For example, I really admire the encodes that the group THORAnime (THORA) do, so maybe something on par with them. I am not very familiar with the tools megui or avisynth, but those are the tools used at THORA, so for now that is what I plan on using.

When I talked to a rep at THORA they said they use something called a filter chain. This way they could change the filter per seen. These are placed in a text file i think. He said not very many people use his method, but that's how he get such good results. He also said it takes a very long time. One of his filter chains might look sort of like this...

avcSource("e:\EDEN_OF_THE_EAST_02\BDMV\STREAM\00000.dga")
p1 = trim(0,5770).filter1
p1 = trim(5771,65343).filter2
etc...

Anyways, I don't really understand much of what he said, but he also said to browse the stream with vdm and a huff. And, that he just "know" what filter to use after looking at it from experience.

He also said they have made their own modified filters specifically for anime, but he wouldn't give those to me of course, XP. But he also recommended the following: limitedsharpen and gradfun2db.

Anyways, if you read all of this, thanks so much for your time, and I really appreciate any time you take to write a response.

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After being warned you still are discussing release groups and how they operate, so struck for rule 6 and thread closed.

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