Most of us can begin to run out of space on Hard disk due to very large collection of Anime that is releasing every day. They are usually 300+ MB especially if they are 720p and these are the only versions who are the best quality wise. This tutorial will guide you on how to convert these Animes into a very nice size of about 80-90 MB without major quality loss.
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To begin our encoding lets start first by downloading the encoder that we will use for our encoding. It is totally free so don’t worry.
Download MiniCoder from links below.
Installer
After installing MiniCoder run it to begin the process. You will be greeted with this screen.
Click on the setting tab to determine the settings we will use for encoding our video. See the screenshot below.
1. Video Settings
They are the main source of importance here. Select a suitable bitrate for the video you are encoding. If you encoding 720p Animes then a video bitrate of 500-550 will be good enough.
If you don’t want to manually calculate the bitrate and just want to specify a targeted size that you want, select the file size radio button and enter the file size you want, it should be mentioned that the lower the size the lower the bitrate will be so quality will suffer.
In the quality setting keep it at very high, it will take more time but the quality will be better in the end. Leave the codec setting as x264 as it is the best quality wise.
2. Pre-Processing Settings
Nothing to change here so leave them. If you want to resize then you can select any size but leaving it is better.
3. Audio Settings
Keep them as they are in the screenshot above or if you want then you can tinker with them
4. Post-Processing Settings
Leave them, if you want to remove some noise or sharpen the video then you can change it but it is not recommended.
The last option for subtitles is for embedding subtitles into videos. They will be hard coded into videos. You can select any subtitle file and it supports majority of the subtitle format.
After all these settings are done. Select the options tab and you will get a screen like the one shown below.
1. In the output settings, specify the output directory where all the converted animes will be saved.
2. Select priority of process, keep it at normal if you don’t want to use much of the processing power. Keeping it at high will make your PC lag a lot during converting.
3. Just ignore these options, they are not necessary
Now we are done with the setting. Click on the Input tab to begin the encoding process. Right click anywhere here to get the option of adding or removing files or you can simply drag and drop the files that you want to encode here.
Select your video file and then click on start to begin the encoding process.
Sit back and enjoy while it converts your anime. It will take about 1 hour to convert a 720p anime on a dual core system, it will be faster on i5 or i7. Below are some comparison shots of the result Decide for yourself.
Note: Please Click on Each Screenshot to view it in full size.
Original Anime Screenshot 1
Encoded Anime Screenshot 1
Original Anime Screenshot 2
Encoded Anime Screenshot 2
Original Anime Screenshot 3
Encoded Anime Screenshot 3
