I use exhaustive motion search on all my encodes! Even if it yields only a few percent extra quality while decreasing encoding speed significantly, it doesn't matter...
The time is unimportant because it takes me 14 days to finish hand-editing 35,089 anime frame, so encoding is only a very small proportion (no more than 5%) of the time anyway.
So, thanks for providing ESA mode - and do keep it in future releases, as I know there are those who use it and will continue to do so.
And big thanks go out to the developers of x264, without whom I would not have this world-class video compression tool!
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