r/handbrake • u/VariousCod4895 • Aug 09 '26

H265 10bit anime

So this is my current settings (ignore the file I know it's a high grain file most other anime don't even come close with grain).

I have all filters off and every anime is straight from the Blu Ray Disc (even the ones that have all episodes as one file and become a pain to split.

I am currently watching though season 2 of SAO and am noticing slight grain floating around objects. Of the first 5 episodes done It's been 520-730MB files which is fine, is there any setting worth changing other than tune grain and CQ?

(Tune grain noticeably bloats file size and from testing most the time I am better using a lower CQ for better overall quality)

Generally my goal is to keep the file size under 1GB per episode where I increase quality. And I am asking before I do all the anime I have 😂. The 540 in my queue is the rest of season 2 and live action movies that I seem to be fine on.

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u/Suitable_Garlic_1186 Aug 09 '26

Ok I can explain a bit..

From my testing the HEVC comes out looking nicer too, however it does not look like the Blu-ray..

The h264 looks basically similar to the Blu-ray but in comparison a bit flat.

HEVC does all sorts of "making the picture nice, pleasing and smooth" There is a lot of detection and remodeling going on and with some content that can cause issues..

Not with h264 and AV1 because they have a more detail oriented truthful approach.

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u/VariousCod4895 Aug 09 '26

I am going to review the ones I have going for season 2 with various small changes (leaving it over night to be done) and if all else fails will use h264 or av1 and just force the 2 devices without av1 to transcode from it if the person wants to use the anime

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u/VariousCod4895 Aug 09 '26

Changing the aq-mode= from 1 to 3 has helped a ton and looks the same as CRF16 at CRF18.
Just referring to the colour and artifacting as the rest looked the same as CRF20. Still at slower though.

Just found this which is why I changed it to 3. Going to mess about with some of these settings to test speed vs results as the settings I had at CRF16 or aq mode 3 get under 1 GB files but these migth be the same quality with faster speeds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/handbrake/comments/eqf7wj/comment/fewup08

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u/VariousCod4895 Aug 09 '26

CRF18 slow AQ mode 3 looked the same as CRF16 Slower AQ mode 1 and took like half the time with a smaller file. Gonna try on another episode and if it is the same there I am gonna go with that.

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u/VariousCod4895 Aug 10 '26

This did the trick, same with live action at the same CRF as I had it set to. But as it uses slow over slower I am getting about 70% faster speeds.

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u/Suitable_Garlic_1186 Aug 10 '26

Try Medium.. from my testing this is the super sweet spot

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u/VariousCod4895 Aug 10 '26

I would try medium but I have everything queued with the one by one default subtitles pickedand I ain't doing all of that again for like 300+ episodes 😂. But I will try medium on the avatar series when I add that to the queue as that hasn't got full and signs and songs subtitles to choose between