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Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:15 am
by fatpizza
If I have some anime from a couple of years ago with digital grain added post process should I use the animation tune or the grain tune? I suspect I should use grain but I just though someone with more experience might be able to tell me.
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:37 am
by mduell
Do you want to preserve the grain or obliterate it?
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:28 am
by fatpizza
mduell wrote:Do you want to preserve the grain or obliterate it?
I'm a fan of preserving the original look of the video as much as possible so I guess I should leave it on grain. Just not at the cost of extreme filesize.
Lets just say when I had the tune set to grain with a crf of 20, the filesize for a 22 minutes episode was approaching 5GB.
With a CRF of 23 and grain the filezise went down to just under 3GB. What other settings could I play around with without setting the CRF any lower and leaving the tune on grain?
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:34 am
by Deleted User 13735
In order to preserve the grain, you will have very large files. No free lunch there.
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:13 am
by fatpizza
Yeah I'm finding that out quickly...
I tried setting the x264 preset to 'Very Slow' and it saved me a couple of hundred MB. When using the grain preset is it safe to set the CRF value higher than recommended(23 I think for HD is recommded, so 24+) since the grain tune is designed to keep more detail anyway?
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:29 am
by mduell
Sure, you can set it as high as you like the results.
Re: Recommended tune for grainy animation?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:51 am
by Smithcraft
With my Grain preset, I have the CQ a notch or two higher(numerically speaking of course) to keep the file size down.
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