Also I think I'm nearly at the limits of AV1 compression. Just ~200 kbps for 720p anime video and I managed to hit 89 VMAF. SVT-AV1-PSY instead of regular SVT-AV1, Preset 0 with CRF 60, Lookahead set to 120. ~2 FPS encode speed on an i5 desktop PC or about 20 minutes per 2 minutes of 720p video lol. Nearly 90 fucking VMAF with absurd bitrate starvation.
>>252 Thanks and yeah SVT-AV1 (including the PSY one) is weird with the CRF scale. Normally with x264 anything above 30 would be YIFY quality but for some reason a slow preset + high CRF value in AV1 leads to subjectively/objectively good quality at low bitrates.
>>253 Yeah that braincell hyperthreading has me intrigued and at least the magic isn't the boring overkill 1-hit-kill kind. Haven't watched more than episode 3 though.