Thicc

I could've sworn the HE in HEVC stood for "High Efficiency".

How do you even end up at this high bitrate with your encoding settings and still have such horrendous video quality? And I'm not even referring to the demolished squiggly line-art as a result of the anti-aliasing damage. https://slow.pics/c/RWnbpXgc https://slow.pics/c/WKCsyPN1

Thanks!

>slown't

Thank you!

@smol - After a deeper look it appears I need to significantly adjust my chroma-qp offset and lower my denoiser settings. Thanks for the callout, even if it was a bit hyperbolic. I'll be looking to change it for my next encoded series.

I mean, I personally have no idea why smol bothered to post those two comps. They seem like a nothingburger to me. The most critical thing I could say about them would be "it would be nice if we didn't see starved chroma in a 3GB encode, yeah." If someone showed me the red scene comp with no accompanying explanation, I wouldn't know what they were complaining about or what they wanted me to do about it.

(you should also significantly tweak your anti-aliasing)

Encoding isn't important part of fansubbing

Chihiro and his spastic upload sizes as usual, the guy genuinely thinks bigger file = better quality, LOL. Man I really miss the old encoders from 15 years ago that actually wrote down entire scientific papers on how close to the screen you have to sit to notice a difference at 1,5mbps versus 25mbps, those were the days of intellectuals! How low we fallen, this is basically akin to VHS taping over your older VHS copy.

@Chihiro Episodes after Episode 7 are missing the fonts for the opening karaoke.