animated movies are difficult to rip

[LaFouine]

Because of the uniform colors of animated movies, I find it harder to transform into divX than a classical movie.

I noticed that, when I could use a 800 bitrate for a classical movie, I got a piece a shit result for an animated movie at the same bitrate, because of colors.

Does anyone know some good parameters (other than birate) that could noticabily improve animated movies quality ?

Thanks
PS : excuse my poor english
LaFouine

[Enchanter]

What encoding steps did you take? That would be a good beginning.

[LaFouine]

Sorry, but what do you mean by "encoding steps" ?

I can tell you, I work with DivX4.12, 2 passes, and with the codec default parameters (I mean for Data Rate Control : 12 / 2 / 2000 / 10 / 20).

I also use FlaskMpeg 0.594 in HQ bicubic mode, TCDi MMX.

With clasical movies, those parameters are plenty satisfying to me.

Does it help you ?

[benderman]

I think cartoons are encoded best with nandub. If you want low bitrates it helps a lot to reduce the resoluton (to 512x.. or lower) and use a smoothing-filter. You should also use a very low minimum bitrate to waste no space on still images.

[Enchanter]

I agree with benderman. You may also want to use bilinear resizing as well to soften the video so that it is more easily compressible.

[shion]

use nandub temporal smoother
works tonnes good for anime
is it american cartoons?
coz then it is easier since less action
than anime

[LaFouine]

It's Disney's classical...
Thank you for all your advices. I'll have to test know !

[Enchanter]

A lower resolution, like Benderman suggested, is essential especially if you are not using a high amount of bitrate (What is it anyway?).

Maybe it's time for an Avatar change...

[LaFouine]

What's the problem with my avatar

[Enchanter]

I was referring to mine...

[LaFouine]

Must be clean, now, uh ?

[LaFouine]

Wouahouuu !!!

That's an Avatar

[Enchanter]

Cute enough, heh?

p.s. Wonder why so few people here use an Avatar. I know of one forum, where the ones without an avatar are a minority.

[shion]

card captor?
hey enchanter sumfin wierd happened
i used 380kb
for evangelion and it rutned out superbly
wot da hell is goin on
i used 400 on nadesico and it turned
out not as good at all
and dont say that evangelion is talk only
it was da first 4 epsiodes

[Enchanter]

Let's re-run through what you did. What resolution did you use? and if I remember correctly, you did cut out the intro and end credits as well, right?

p.s. I have worked on a few Eva episodes before and they are very easy to compress. Not sure about Nadesico, as I've not watched it before nor ripped any of its DVDs.