I made a video tutorial of how to encode AV1

Here is the test source file. Converted from a HEVC 10-bit rip to AV1 CRF 10 so only a small lossy compression penalty present. ~1,300 kbps which is generally pretty bloated for 720p AV1 anime but works as a test file.

Very nice! Those AV1 files you created looked amazing, I didn't know Staxrip, it looks super advanced(at least for me lol)
I think I've only used that "Webm for retards" which is now called "Webm converter", if I remember correctly it was even some guy from 4chan who created it

CRF 50 + preset 4 allowed AV1 to cram it into ~200 kbps and ~95 VMAF was achieved. I should warn that this is an unusual result, the sample is more of a slideshow than a video which is why it was able to compress it so well.

>>277
On a side note, this anime sure made history lmao

>>278
Thanks and I've tried dozens of video encoders but I really favor Staxrip since it feels like a bridge between the simple Handbrake encoder and the full blown hacker ffmpeg method. It's also one of the few encoders out there that will let you toy with SVT-AV1-PSY which optimizes not just for quality metrics but subjective "that looks good" as well.
https://svt-av1-psy.com/
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>>280
Hell yeah, no brakes on that wincest train, it would get buried under red tape if it was released today lol. Story was kind of meh though, which wasn't too shocking given how the game was made first.

I forgot to mention, the video tutorial also includes FFMetrics, a GUI that measures video quality. The most reliable one seems to be VMAF and the gist is that you want scores above 80. Chatgpt came up with picrel focusing on high quality scores only and mapping them to Amazon product review scores.

>>282
I'm using that one for sure, I'm always paranoid my encodes look bad