How to make 300MB Movies in HQ with x264
1. Installing and Updating:
Install MeGUI, update it. (Update is a MUST! then load all profiles offered during the update!)
2. Opening and Creating Avisynth
When you run the program, File/Open your source film,
(SOURCE MUST BE GOOD QUALITY -- HD, HDrip, DVDR, DVDrip or atleast R5 LINE --, don't bother with low quality sources) it will ask you to create AVS file, its mostly needed for resizing, cropping,filter information, and source path of course. Just untick/unselect the Resize, cause if you temper with the resolution it doesn't turns out quite well, so original resolution is fine without resizing.
Only HD and DVDR need to be resized and cropped!
NOTE: Instead of using "Encoder settings: x264: HQ-Slow" you should now use "unrestricted 2 pass HQ" as the profile because that is actually the best quality
Make sure that codec is x264 and container/extension/File Format is MKV. Use HQ Slower profile (it takes some time to encode, for me its like 3 hours, but I do not really have a good pc
Now the second thing is Audio.
Audio source (input) is the same as movie source file! Open it, then find the source video file. (example: if you have opened troy.avi then created avisynth script troy.avs, after that you click on Audio input "troy.avi file IS Audio input/source!)
Select it and open, select codec to be NDAAC (Nero Digital Audio Codec) Use profile NDAAC-HE-64kbs, then select Adaptive bitrate and set from 45-50kbs (thats enough for decent audio quality and extremely high compression!) or you can use LAME MP3, go to config, there is not much things you can do here just change the bitrate from 128 to 80 (below that, the sound isnt very good) click OK.
NDAAC (Nero Digital Audio) is one of the best codecs, probably even better than LAME cause it can do high audio compression while preserving decent audio quality at small bitrates.
You can download the Nero Audio Codecs here: Nero - Download the Nero AAC Codec
Then copy all the files (neroAacDec.exe, neroAacEnc.exe, neroAacEnc_SSE.exe, neroAacTag.exe) from extracted directory (win32) to C:/Program Files/MeGUI/. Do not copy the entire directory, only files.
Final Step
In the lower right corner you have "Autoencode" tab. Click on it.
Select a Container to be MKV (if it isn't already). This is where you decide the entire outcome/bitrate of the movie. Click "average bitrate" option and type the desired bitrate (example 500kbs total, 450kbs goes to video 50kbs to audio, of course if audio is set to 50kbs if it is set to higher bitrates then it will lower video bitrate), that is depending on movie duration your size and bitrate will vary. Aim to get the size 1MB BELOW the targeted size, if its 300MB rip, aim to 299MB, if its 400MB rip, aim to 399MB (this is because of compressing with winrar so you dont get fourth rar file on 300MB rips that is like 1-2MB's)
Encoding
In autoencode window click Queue. In upper left corner you have the tabs Input/Queue/Log. Click on Queue. Click Start. If no workers exist program will offer to create one!
And thats it. Now you have to wait Razz, in my case 3 hrs. Not a very fast computer. Wink
100MB is 30min of the movie, 200MB is 60min of the movie, you get the point.
It took a while to write this down.
Enjoy
