Spirited Away

[kilivipin]

I wanna make an xvid backup of this anime. Should I use Cartoon mode. My pc is very slow and it will take a whiile to to this, so I do not want to <<edited per R4>>. I have never backed up an anime before. Will there be a lot of artifacts, even with a 2cd rip? Would Cartoon mode help, or is that just for american cartoons?

[len0x]

Read the Tutorial!

[chilled]

depends on what targetsize you are for.
and cartoon mode is not recommended for anime, generally, because of the much more detailed drawings (specially backgrounds) and more draw-per-second rate (cant explain that in english). Miyazaki movies arent much more detailed than an american cartoon, indeed. but I would not use cartoon mode anyway. As it is a 2h movie, if its a 1 cd rip I would choose (in autogk)
-custom target size 703 (will fit without overburning)
-mp3 vbr 112 (or even 96) japanese track
-resolution set to minimum of 576 (autogk will probably choose that one)
-burnt-in subs
-credit compression (20%) and b/w option (but check if there are no images whilst credits rolling -cant remember) and adjustsubs hidden options (and not any other ones, especially not sharpmatrix).
if its a 2cd rip (or aimed at dvd-r) change to:
-res min 640
-ac3/dts sound
-dont choose a custom target size like 1406 because file wont get split (well, you can manually do that with vdm indeed)

[kilivipin]

I apologise for my profanity. Thank you for your help.

[Floruro]

I just encoded Spirited away myself the other day to a 2gig file and it looks perfect, and i didnt enable cartoon mode or anything.
BTW the spirited away dvd i have has an error with the sound. In Surround mode the center channel sound is wrongly put on the left channel, so all speech is there, which is highly annoying. I had to use the 2 channel track (for some reason dr.divx regarded the 2 channel track as the default, but all other encoders didnt even see the 2 channel mode and wanted surround mode with the skew centerchannel).
Good luck.

[chilled]

well if output size is 2gb image MUST be good, even with dr.divx, hehe

[Floruro]

Yes i dont want to take any chances :cool:

[kilivipin]

Well, I made a 2cd rip without cartoon mode, and I got a compressibilty of around 90%. I think it choose 720 as the resolution. It looks perfect.
Thank you len0x for making such an incredible program.

[chilled]

wow, 90 per cent seems too much for that kind of content, are you surethe WHOLE movie looks good-great? maybe a longer comptest (in gk, not in agk) would give you more accurate results (i.e. less compressibility) ...or maybe the movie is just like that.
I have in the past problems with the agk comptest with some movies: comptest detected high compressibillity whilst the movie was quite noisy then the automated result was not good at all (but this can easily be fixed with the advanced options though: thats what I did)

[kilivipin]

I watched most of it and it is really sharp. There are a few artifacts in areas of pure colour, by that I mean no shading or gradiations, just plain blue or red etc... This is very minimal and barely even noticeable.
I am very pleased!