Anime Rendering 101: Best HandBrake Settings Explained - H.265 & Opus

[@cj7688]

You explain audio setting way better than KZbin's first 10 hits. Thank you for being so much better!

[@MyrKnof]

you: look at the grain there yt compression: Think again

[@TimeofDying00]

H265 still blows my mind how beautiful it can be with such incredibly small file sizes.

[@anmolagrawal5358]

check out VVC then ; a 50% reduction in size yet again (iirc)

[@alphasiera1757]

@@anmolagrawal5358 not yet avail in handbrake

[@anmolagrawal5358]

@@alphasiera1757 yeah, VVCEasy is an option I guess but I haven't tested it yet. Still in it's infancy though. AV1 our best bet for now I suppose

[@boku-no-pico]

Ya I use transcode gpu on jellyfin its amazing. 265 does use more resources so my gpu helps a lot

[@Wireless-Darwin]

The best youtube video in 2022 for me so far. Thank you so much

[@LeBeautiful]

*10bit H.265 is the way to go!* Heck, add some HDR rendering (more content in high dynamic range and/or integrations, PLEASE!!!) in there too, and we’ll get some *_STUNNING_* anime content. Love the beauty of this channel, even 10+ years ago.

[@bernardganendra5014]

Could you tell me on how to add HDR rendering into the video using Handbrake?

[@tux9656]

These settings are almost exactly what I do when making personal backup copies of my stuff. However, I like to do my audio outside of Handbrake using either ffmpeg or another encoder. Have you used Nvidia's newest hardware encoder introduced on the Turing architecture? The quality is really nice and it is very fast. I've been doing my own encoding since the days of DivX/XviD around the year 2000. It took about 16 to 20 hours to make a backup of a DVD using my K6-2 CPU. I had a TV tuner card and my PC was a DVR back when most people still recorded things with a VCR.

[@_mike]

The thing is, NVEnc is meant for streaming. It sure can reduce the encoding time, but for media encoding, it's not that good.

[@easymode]

I'd recommend not wasting time doing that. Opus will sound as good (or better) than anything you'll be doing when messing around with extra steps like ffmpeg... and the nvidia hardware encoder looks substantially worse than the regular h.265. So, use that... or now you can try AV1 as well. It works great for live action, but doesn't have an animation setting yet, so I didn't get much space savings for anime.

[@MeariBamu]

6:28 you are wrong, that any bitway can compress better small size, For example, 3.5Hour of animation can compress a mp4 H264 from 14GB to 1.68GB with 961Bitway is enough quality for 1080p

[@scholardeville]

just came here to check if you put it to medium or slow. and you did. you're a chad logan.

[@SNAPPERTBK1990]

YOU ARE LOGAN YEAH? HOLY SHIT MAN ITS NICE TO SEE YOU AFTER 8 LONG YEARS! BLESS KZbin ALGORYTM!

[@shish32bit37]

4:37 grain comparison KZbin compression: "grain?"

[@savakichtakayerkan6382]

good video with good information. I got more out of this video than I thought I would!

[@DarkWorldQ8]

Thank you for the helpful tutorial. I've been using Handbrake for around 2 weeks since I've seen your video. I started ripping my Blu Ray discs and wanted to see how to compress it. I set my RF to 22 even though I don't see a difference between 20 and 23.

[@Aniki82]

rooooooo :') This is such a jump back in time with this intro :D I remember all the dynamic community around Avisynth, virtual dub and doom 9 ^^

[@anasevi9456]

You've gotta keep the grain in 1995's Ghost in the Shell. I love that movie so much the only thing I can criticise about it, is sometimes the action sound-mixing in the eng dub was clearly spurced up and a bit better in major fights than the Japanese audio.

[@undefinablereasoning]

The biggest problem with opus is that not many players support playback for it. For PC this isn't a problem but if you're trying to stream over the network to something like a phone you might want to go with something more supported like aac.

[@undefinablereasoning]

@@TheOriginalJAX Unless the phone is rooted, I don't see how you're going to do that on Android.

[@vxsz]

@@undefinablereasoning software MX Player decoder

[@teksyndicate]

I heard this before and was worried... but I use jellyfin on my android device and it was perfect... then tried VLC and it was perfect... then I use foobar to stream music... and that's perfect and BlackPlayer for local music... and that's perfect. I can't find a modern device that has issues with opus. I supposed if you're using a jank old app there may be issues... but I can't find any.

[@middle_pickup]

I still don't get the choice to encode in a higher bit depth than the source file. You can't create new color in the output file. It's just going to take longer to process.

[@Tru3Tech]

I agree with you and I am sad that this advice comes from a KZbinr that I was looking upon :(. convert 8bit source to 10 bit is like saying to convert mp3 to Flac. probably in the future with the help of AI those thing make sens

[@frey.atlast]

Literally everything I wanted to know- so straightforward and useful thank you :D

[@sitordan]

I knew very little about this. Thanks for the lesson.

[@jaredanson]

thanks for the tip about the cropping, i had never though about that

[@VHSJayden]

I love these videos! Can you please make another video for encoding anime in AV1?

[@RVDDP2501]

What about adjusting the brightness/contrast?

[@mordecaiepsilon]

I'm surprised you don't have a crazy mpv config Great video

[@lyndeneftoda6411]

This helps alot, thanks!

[@HereAfterNow]

what difference does animation setting have to regular encoder tune?

[@xrenaoxloveo]

my brain fizzled out when the vpn was mentioned

[@ItzHoot]

Could you do a video about your music production stuff?, I caught the end of a video you did a few months ago where you were talking about some of the vst's you use and I would love to know more. Big fan of your channel btw your content is always entertaining.

[@migmarcellinus]

Would this also work with 1963's Doctor Who? I have the DVDs and wanted to improve the quality.

[@UnwantedSelf]

Can you show us all your VLC and CMP tricks?

[@christian9065]

All that blocking on the gradients is beacuse of the "animation" encoder tune, that is only for cartoon (solid color blocks) not for anime wich has more colors, gradients and textures, disable it. Handbrake looks like for an rookie, it has so few options instead of advanced encoders like Staxrip which is far better for encoding and take total control of it.

[@Med2881]

2 things i want to ask 1. my current anime movie's resolution is at 720p dose this mean i need to set resolution limit to 720p to mach it or is it fine to just use 1080 cuz i did a test encode and while i had it set for 1080p it still came out 720p, 2. is the use of the up scaling checkbox OK or no?

[@sleevelessjoejohnson]

Do you have any videos regarding the best preset settings for compressing blu-ray and 4K movies? Thanks

[@itsdeonlol]

Thanks, this helps a lot Logan! I was looking for something like this a long time ago.

[@martianmadwoman]

Really good video and gave me some guidance on how to fool with it. Thank you!

[@biblical_figure]

I need to know how to overwrite a file with my own audio track as I was halfway through replacing One Punch Man S1's opening with Jonathan Young's english cover almost two years ago and I cannot for the life of me find the guide I used at the time now. Is there any way you can help?

[@TheLorenz998]

Great video for a starting point with handbrake, very usefull. I was wondering if the source like in the video is a 4k bluray of 57 gb, how big is the final file in 1080p?

[@majedmj.digitalworlds]

I am having trouble getting a good quality export from Adobe Premiere Pro for use as a WhatsApp status, even after following recommended settings. Would using Handbrake be a better option for video compression and conversion? If so, are there specific settings or steps I should use to optimize the video quality for this specific use case?

[@drixxcassidy4819]

First, a big thank you to share these usefull tips ! It works perfectly. But... ! Lol. I'm explaining. I use subtitle edit for editing custom subtitles, for example episodes titles or to introduce characters etc..., and usually i use the same color than the original text (I watch anime in original version with french subs by the way). Then i burn them with Handbreak, but i have a color problem with them when the encoding is over, the color is not the same as what i edited, it's less bright and does not match anymore with the initial color text that i translated at first, and badly my both text have not the same exact color. Have you any idea of the cause and may be how could i fix that ? I could burn them at first with Subtitle Edit but i'm affraid to lose more quality with two encoding, plus would take much more time lol. I hope that my issue's explaination is clear, and sorry for my english if it is not. ^^

[@Zergonzo]

Great work!

[@majdjinn5042]

What degenerate doesn't like the grain? Next you'll tell me they like their steak well done or their coffee with 10 creams

[@teksyndicate]

Philistines for sure

[@johnathanmcdoe]

The same people who like 60fps interpolation.

[@kevinclass2010]

​@@johnathanmcdoehonestly without motion blur 24 fps live action can be hard on the eyes

[@pkgod99]

Hmm, the setting is basically what I have. The only exception is I do audio in 256 bit. Some anime has a higher bit rate nowadays. I would recommend 192 if one watches anime with a decent headset or earbud. Otherwise, any sound effect that could be slightly painful or annoying may just become worst.

[@teksyndicate]

If you can tell the difference in 128 opus and 256, I'll buy you cheeseburgers for a week. Opus does not need to be big.

[@pkgod99]

@@teksyndicate In some anime, it's actually possible to hear the difference between 128 and 256. It does depend on the anime though. Some have fight scenes or music performances that got certain music or SFX that would really benefit from the few extra bit rate. Though I will say 128 is enough for most of the slice of life and stuff. But I would still go at least 192 just to be safe. Very few would actually benefit from 256 at all, but I'm too lazy to change the setting on every single episode, so there is that. It's not like it increases the file size by that much anyways.

[@kommentator1157]

Using 10-bit for the video encoder should only matter if the content you're converting is also 10-bit. 8-bit content (most common) shouldn't be affected by this setting apart from increasing the resulting file size.

[@technofi2554]

Tests show otherwise from what I've seen

[@Tru3Tech]

@@technofi2554 it must be a problem with x265. I have not seen a h264 10 bit. Why on the internet Bluray is converted to H.264 8 bit (not 10bit ) but when it comes to h265 people convert to H265 10bit (not 8). Btw all blu ray is 8bit, except for 4k uhd ones.

[@technofi2554]

@@Tru3Tech I've downloaded plenty of 10 bit x264 encodes man, there have been a few technical articles on it if you want the mathematic reasons it works just hit google up. or experiment with handbrake for yourself at low bitrate.

[@technofi2554]

@inovade At lower bitrates the quality improvement of 10 bit is worth it. Although I would only use it if all the devices you want to play the video files on support 10 bit playback as some TV's don't.

[@LyamWitherow]

Depends on if debanding was used during the conversion

[@LyamWitherow]

Might want to link a few examples of those screenshots you paused on because the youtube compressed the crap out of those stills. I prefer MPV for playing videos and using FSR to improve the low quality videos you might be playing, but there is no proper installer like VLC for accomplishing this Great tutorial btw

[@j0my77]

In his description he has a link under "sample images here:" if you click the link you will be able to see them

[@LyamWitherow]

@@j0my77 Pretty sure those were added after I left this comment

[@j0my77]

@@LyamWitherow ah nps bud ;)

[@TheFrostySaucer]

Would love for you to revisit this and discuss QVC AND NVENC as well! Especially QVC since a lot of us are able to use it with cpu encoding take such a long time it would be really cool to kind of understand the best methodology for those encoders

[@praetorxyn]

The TLDR is to use GPU for decoding, CPU for encoding. GPU encodes will take a lot less time, but they will result in larger file sizes and lesser quality. So just spend the time CPU encoding, it's not like you have to sit there watching it encode. Just start a queue and go do some stuff.

[@AnaximanoVlog]

H265 and h265 10bit are rendering only by the the cpu here its too slow compared to nvencx265 that uses my gpu(rtx2060) but the settings are different, not so many options like animation or grain

[@guristoski2625]

Intel Raptor like will change that with another 30 to 40% increase in multi performance.

[@s.k.y2665]

GPU encodes produces mostly a much bigger file with less quality compared to a cpu encoded video. Yeah it takes time but the final product is smaller and better in quality. Also NVenc in handbrake produces read artifacts for me (sometimes in movies) So: CPU = Encoding GPU = Decoding (for streams for example)

[@richtiger_ralf]

NVEnc produces A LOT bigger files (factor 2-3) compared to software encoding with no quality increase. Don't do that.

[@whiteboard4963]

Libx265 is a magical codec

[@Franktoddau]

is there a way to keep the duel audio or do i have to only one type?

[@emprex122]

you find the setting under audio. you can add or remove their. also well what order you want it as well

[@RetroBerner]

Damn, you do all that on the CPU? I just grabbed one of the new Intel GPUs and I wanna do this via Quick Sync

[@TotemoGaijin]

The worst thing you can do, is to go through your entire folder of Studio Ghibli...forgetting to add the Japanese audio, and then being stuck with English for everything....Time to dig the discs back out, lol.

[@silverhairedsamurai27]

The subtitle tracks doesn’t work the same after encoding. I’m not using burn in but when use it they work ok but then I can’t turn them off. Sometimes it they display vertically on the screen. Any advice on this? 😣

[@cj7688]

Maybe you can set Handbrake to ignore the subtitles. Then use something like MKV ToolNix to merge the original file's subtitle tracks into the video file made by Handbrake. (I'm here looking for help using Handbrake so I'm no expert with that tool, but I use MKVToolNix a lot)

[@silverhairedsamurai27]

@@cj7688 thank you bro. I’ll try

[@rainerbehrendt9330]

All good but my default audio encoder is AC-3. The reason is very simple. My Popcorn Hour A-500 can't speak that Codec.

[@Bada4ever]

Your video was very helpful, thank you. I'll check your playlist in case you already talked about it, but what settings do you use for old anime on DVD? I know deinterlacing is top priority, but I would love to update the quality of it for free because those A.I. programs are expensive.

[@KiZUedits]

thanks for this! really heped!

[@TotemoGaijin]

Whoa, I just started my first one trying these settings. What kinda hardware are ya packin' my dude? It says its gonna take 7 hours.

[@Bugv]

Great tips bro

[@JusAinar]

very useful thx legend

[@zarco5855]

Great, thanks!

[@rurouni_xyz]

encoding i get but what about filtering? filtering is what keeps or enhances the quality by doing color correction, strengthening black lines, fixing issues of the BD like banding, artifacts, aliasing etc. people write some crazy commands & that has my hair pulled. learning is the biggest pain here. either way, good tutorial.

[@OmAn1994]

Filtering requires a hella lot of time to read each filter documentation, and you should test to one extreme to another one to see what really is affected. Once you grasp what each filter does, you use your raw source and you watch and while watching you take note wich part is needed and what filter can be used. Hella work in there there's no tutorial because is a long process and every episode in an anime has a different filtering, but at the cost that it's mandatory to be as global as possible.

[@rurouni_xyz]

@@OmAn1994 i'm glad somebody replied, thanks a lot. I know its a painful job but i just dont know where to start. I'll keep trying.

[@furynotes]

Yeah. With DVD. I do animation h264 very slow. Then I upscale that using Topaz Video enhance AI. I haven't muxed back in the audio and subtitles after that. Certain titles have some episodes of a anime interlaced. So the pain of dealing with that. Still continues. My play of choice at least on windows in media player classic. With the full codec pack installed.

[@teksyndicate]

I can't handle how blurry things look with the upscaling... it usually makes things look like clay... or kinda smudgy. I feel like the details are getting blurred together.

[@joc0n647]

geat detailed video thx

[@dexheavy85]

Hardware AV1encoding is comming on new Intel dGPUs. That would be so nice to have. I do most of my videos like this only with FLAC. I am not that desperate for those few megabytes. Only thing i reccomend is using NVENC or QuickSync for encoding. It saves a ton of time.

[@teksyndicate]

I'd give someone $1000 if they could consistently pick the Flac over the opus. It's a massive waste of space. A flac file can be larger than the video

[@dexheavy85]

@@teksyndicate I'll send you the invoice. ;) It is a matter of personal preference, or OCD. I agree that opus offers huge space savings for virtually no perceived difference. But i don't use it personally. For some people it doesn't make a difference for one reason or the other. Or they are happy with the extra free space. My brother is listening to music on KZbin, and for him that is fine. O.o

[@Tru3Tech]

@@teksyndicate I like opus too (although I use AC3 for compatibility reasons), i don t understand why you are not cropping the video from black bars (encoded video 1920x1080 is bigger then 1920x800 cropped version, and you are losing 0 pixels)

[@eboubaker3722]

ecchi tag?

[@mbsfaridi]

Why should one re-encode a media file?

[@teksyndicate]

Let's say you have a modern anime episode... 25 minutes and it's like 1.5 GB.. You can compress that using this guide and get it down to 300 mb or so without any or much discernable difference. H.265 is magic... Then if you have a Blu-ray, you can compress that by a factor of like 20

[@mbsfaridi]

@@teksyndicate Oh I see. The purpose is just to reduce the file size. I thought it was necessary if you ripped your own discs. Thanks!

[@Benzin0]

Hey Logan, you made a typo in the title...

[@michiganjack1337]

Why Media Player Classic? Last I knew support for it ended years ago.

[@teksyndicate]

It's still the best after all this time... I use Jellyfin to actually watch stuff

[@crescent5311]

What about copy-protected DVDs? How are you able to burn those?

[@zaknive]

hi :3 What are the best settings for movies?

[@nocomplyyy]

good shit

[@pcmanipulator]

This didn’t work for me? I tried to convert a 1080 MKV video file to 4K and when it was done looked the same as the 1080?????? Not sure why it’s not working??????

[@antonmuffin6214]

isnt there like some ai stuff out there that like trys making the image better?

[@wardhale]

It does kinda work.. video 2X or I think waifu2x... Most people apply way too much noise reduction and it looks like playdough.. but used sparingly, it can work. Just set aside a day for rendering a single movie

[@VoyivodaFTW1]

"what is she eating?!" Lmao.

[@troyBORG]

I still prefer to just open a command line and do ffmpeg manually for my encodes

[@Tru3Tech]

What command? 😊 ffmpeg -i ……..

[@emirhantemur6429]

quality does not improve

[@MichaelMantion]

This is absurd on movies I use a quality of 30-33.

[@CmdrTigerKing]

anime lol..