if you don’t know what i mean, try av1an + SVT-AV1 (make sure to use
--enable-variance-boost 1 --luminance-qp-bias 25 --tf-strength 1 with --preset 4 or lower) in quality target mode (SSIMULACRA2 metric). --target-quality 90 is visually lossless in most cases—as in, you can flip between zoomed-in screenshots and won’t see all that much of a difference. but it does that at a fraction of the file size i’m used to. like, 105min 1080p anime movie with the video stream taking up maybe 600-1500 MB. that’s nuts! things did not get that small and still look good back in my day.