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

so let's take these turn them into the highest quality digital copies we can while also keeping the file size nice and small what we're going to do in this video is cover the settings that that i use in handbrake it's going to be a simple video that shows you in my opinion the definitive settings you should be using and once we get those settings dialed in i'll show you how to create a preset so that every time you open it up you can just go back and use that preset without having to do a lot of fussing around [Music] this is handbrake i'm running the dark theme so if it looks a little different do not panic you can change it to the dark theme in the preferences when you first open it you need to drag and drop a file this can be any mkv mp4 avi whatever i'm going to grab my massive 4k version of ghost in the shell it's 57.2 gigabytes i'm going to drop it in there but you can do this with anime you've grabbed on the internet while this is processing be sure to use a vpn they didn't pay me to do this this is what i use every time and i'll show you how i do it i use private internet access because it's the lowest price for the fastest performance that i can find and also regardless of what anybody else says they've never had any sort of leaks and no one has ever gotten in trouble using this service so i'm using them based upon their price performance and their track record the protocol section if you have fast internet be sure to use wire guard because with openvpn it usually caps me at around 100 to 150 with wire guard i can get 5 6 700 sometimes megabits per second and then one other thing i want to show you is split tunneling so you can come down here and say okay for the bittorrent program and some other stuff use the vpn and for other programs like if you wanted to say steam or whatever you could say bypass the vpn so you can get full speed i have a link in the description to get a pretty good deal so check that out i'm going to cover all of these tabs right here because that's how you make your video i always use mkv there's a million reasons for it but mkv is what you should be using especially if you want to be able to remux as in like adding different subtitles later on and stuff like that much easier to mess with this container and then i pass through the common metadata the dimensions just make sure it's on custom don't leave it on automatic because sometimes this program will look and be like oh i think i see black bars i should crop no no no it would be very weird for you to ever want to crop the original source material unless something's very strange you can change this but leave it on custom and all zero over here you can pick if you want 1080p or 4k or whatever i'm gonna do a backup of this one in 1080p and then of course no borders filters i leave all this the way it is we don't need to mess with it over here on video this is the most important page and this is the most important part of the page the quality we'll go through this first you want to do h.265 10-bit why not 8-bit well the difference in file size is nominal between the regular you know x.265 and 10-bit and 12-bit i haven't really noticed any difference so 10-bit gives you more colors so that you don't have any color banding where you can see like the different lines and stuff like that so i use that and then for frame rate make sure you keep it on same as source and make sure it's a constant frame rate the encoder preset options now normally it'll be on medium or fast you want to bring this down to slow this just gives the algorithm a little bit more time to make things look nicer i can't notice any difference beyond slow now the quality up here on the top the farther you go to the right the higher the quality and if you're doing 4k you might want to consider doing like 15 or 16. once you get past that it's going to be placebo and once you get all the way over here the file size is going to be larger than the original because it's going to do a lossless recreation so leave it somewhere around 20. now for most anime i've found that at comfortable sitting distances 24 produces a tiny file that looks completely awesome now for most movies no you're gonna need to be around 21 20 somewhere in that range but for anime 24 looks pretty good there's a caveat you need to use the animation setting and that's available as long as you're using h.265 or h.264 there's an animation tuning that makes the file size smaller and it also knows oh this is an anime does not work for 3d animation if you have a show that has a bunch of 3d stuff in it you're going to have to leave this on none put it on animation for traditional animation and you'll be just fine now there's also one other caveat for older movies you have a lot of grain and animation will ignore a lot of that grain or smooth it out there's a grain setting if you have something that has a lot of grain you're going to want to turn this on even though the file size is going to be larger and i'll show you some differences right now with with ghost in the shell because that has a lot of grain this is a 4k version straight out you know without any editing or anything like that there we go this is the animation setting see how the grain has become like blocky and all that so the grain has a lot of information it doesn't look too bad in motion and if you're sitting back but this is a much smaller file but you're losing a lot of that information and there's the grain setting the file size was still pretty small but we were able to retain some of that green all right this is the 4k version by the window in the beginning see look at the grain there now when you're using the animation setting that's what it looks like see the grain is completely gone now this looks a lot like a modern anime all of a sudden you've like we've turned ghost in the shell into a modern anime and if you like this look better than the grain let me go to there's the grain setting there's the grain setting versus the animation setting if you like the smooth look better than the grain more power to you you do you i like the grain so i'm keeping it that way here's another one animation setting and there's the grain setting you can see the grain mostly in the dark area like look there the dark area see it up here here we are animation setting and notice when we go to the grain setting the grain gives you the uh almost the feel of it being a little bit sharper but from comfortable sitting distance you know sit back a little bit i think the animation looks pretty good again it's all up to you now when there's a lot of lights and things going on in the dark and there's tons of grain you may get some frames like this when it comes to the animation for the older anime there's the grain setting see everything sharpened up but there's just too much grain information with the lights flashing around and stuff so it becomes confusing on techsyndicate.com there's going to be an article and i will link all of these pictures on there so you can go through the gallery yourself back to this so to sum up these are the settings you use keep it on constant quality right here and you know if you really care about it a little lower but 24 is what i'm doing for most of my anime with the animation setting especially for new anime and then your average bit right here ignore this this is the old school way of doing things it takes a lot longer you get file sizes that are bigger this is a much more scientific way to do it [Music] all right let's talk audio you have a couple different tracks to choose from so make sure you pick the one both of these are unknown but it should say like japanese or english or whatever and sometimes it'll say 5.1 so i'm going to explain the codex really quickly there are a couple codecs which are lossless if you see flack or true hd those are lossless and those should be compressed because they're huge so this is just raw audio here and that's why we're going to be doing a compression now the bitrate let me explain this to you we don't need it to be that high for stereo 128 or 160 is plenty so the way the bit rate works is you take the number of channels you have and then divide it by the bit rate so if you have two channels that'll be 64 bits per channel this one doesn't have 5.1 but if we put it on 5.1 you're going to want to bring this up a little bit maybe here or just make sure that each channel has you know 60 to 90 bits so do the math a little bit shouldn't take too long i like to go overboard just a little bit because i love audio but opus is also the best when it comes to file size versus fidelity it's better than aac or anything else here on the list now there's sometimes when you're going to get a something you downloaded online or whatever and it's going to already have compressed audio well i usually don't like to compress that anymore i just want to pass that through and i'll show you how we do that all right so i threw my blu-ray copy of uh project aco in here so i can show you some different audio stuff by the way it's available on blu-ray finally just the first one though so this one has aac audio that's the japanese there and we're gonna do aac passthrough so we don't actually have to do any audio rendering it's just gonna render the video and then pass through the audio now let's show you how to set up the subtitles all the tracks are showing up here that are in english that's what i have it set to do and you can see over here the titles english english forced and then commentary if you want to keep the commentary tracks and all that kind of stuff you can do that otherwise i'm probably not going to watch the commentary so i'm going to remove that and if i need the commentary i can go back to my blu-ray on the shelf and i just want the english subtitles and i want to make them default so that whenever it plays this comes up by default i will say don't do burn in because it takes the subtitles and it writes them to the video so that you cannot ever turn them off i just leave it like this default means that it automatically plays so you can put that on if you want to so if we have everything set up the way we want we just click on add to cue and there it is in our queue but guess what everything stayed the same right here we didn't none of this changed so check this out if we were like you know what i want to see how different it looks but let's change it to the green you know i want to render it a couple times and we can add that to q as well now we have to change the name i'll put green and we can add that to q and now we have two here one with grain and one without so that's really easy excuse my dark theme it's being strange let's say you're worried that you're gonna spend a lot of time processing this and then not like the finished product or maybe you're not you're gonna say 24 is not enough so start the queue and since we have an mkv file we can easily check this so here in my folder you can see it's it's already showed up there it says zero it's it's doing stuff so we can we can right click on this and play it with our favorite media player vlc or i'm using media player classic and now check this out we've got six minutes rendered so far so we can cut in and see does 24 look good do those settings look good you know this looks pretty good to me it's up to you so let's make sure our subtitles are working audio tracks working subtitle track so that's how it looks looks pretty good to me what is she eating that's how you can check your work just open up the file in the middle of while it's rendering and as it renders you can keep opening that same file and see a little bit more of the show a little bit more of the movie [Music] [Applause] all right now let's make your life really easy by creating some presets so we've got this here we know 24 looks good we know the animation setting looks good so let's make an anime preset by clicking on presets up here on the top and save as new preset custom presets i've got a category here called anime you can create a new category because i've got a bunch anime 24 now we need to select audio and subtitle behavior audio behavior is probably my favorite thing when it comes to audio behavior i want to pass through all the lossy audio because i don't want to recompress that stuff so like mp3 aac ac3 all that stuff even dts is probably good to pass through i won't be re-rendering these but flac dts hd and true hd true hd and flack are lossless dts hd sounds pretty good but i'll i'll recompress that down to opus whenever you have something online and it's one of these it will just pass through you know you'll get the audio pass through but if it's not then it'll be opus his bit rate's a little bit high for opus you could get away with you know 160 is going to sound crystal clear for most people so we got this on auto pass through falling back to opus that's all we need there and then you can pick your languages but i just leave this alone because the audio is something i fuss with on every single track or every single thing i do and now we'll do the subtitle settings okay i can say like okay as long as it's english for me i've already got it moved to the right so yeah you just move english to the right and left and you can you know put them in a hierarchical order so if it finds one of those it'll automatically throw that in the list so right now mine is putting all english stuff on the list that's good enough for now and then you click on add and it adds it to your presets if you also want to do one for the grain setting or maybe you want to do one a little bit higher quality for some of your favorite anime or if you're doing 4k 4k you do need higher quality then you can come up to presets and add a preset for that i've already got a few anime presets made up here on the top as you can see and we've got the 5.1 preset as well every single time i throw you know a new source in here i check the video i do a quick check of the audio and make sure that everything's good and i do a quick check of the subtitles and usually click on default but that's it it just takes a couple clicks and then i add to cue this is going to make your anime library significantly smaller i was able to take the evangelion library i have each file was two gigabytes and i compressed it down to about three to four hundred megabytes per episode so huge savings on space on the hard drive so hopefully now this has given you the power to render all of your anime the highest quality possible but also the smallest size i hope it helped you understand some of this stuff if you have questions please put them in the comments or over on the forum and again and also i'm gonna have all the images from ghost in the shell and maybe a couple other anime all in a gallery on techsyndicate.com and there's also going to be a link to the private internet access be sure when you're messing around on these websites downloading stuff you're using a vpn alright see you next time

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Published: Sun Apr 17 2022