A guide to encoding, part seven (final wrap up)

If you actually read all six parts and followed my instructions then you are one step closer to becoming a better encoder. However, even with all of the help I've given you, don't think that you are done. There are so many things that I either glossed over or did not touch on at all. My guide will get you started. It's up to you whether or not you continue practicing, experiment, and make yourself better.

With that said, here are some links that I found very helpful when I first started encoding.

• Doom9 Forums  - A giant forum where many brilliant minds gather to answer questions and develop new things for Avisynth, MeGUI, and many other encoding programs. If you get an error in MeGUI or something goes wrong, Doom9 is a great place to search for answers.

• Avisynth Wiki  - The official wiki page for Avisynth. Very, very helpful in explaining the finer points of Avisynth. If you ever want to go above and beyond MeGUI and do more advanced things to your video, that is the link to visit.

• Writing Avisynth scripts from scratch - from the Avisynth wiki, a quick guide to writing a very simple avisynth script without the help of MeGUI.

• Avisynth Filter Intro - An introduction to what Avisynth filters are (very important if you want your encodes to look even better).

• MeWiki  - The official MeGUI wiki.

• x264 settings  - From the MeWiki, a very advanced guide to all of x264's settings. Not for beginners.

• All About Video Fields - a long guide explaining what interlacing is.

• 100fps  - Another guide about interlacing/deinterlacing. Probably easier to understand than the guide above.

• AfterDawn - a multipurpose site. Has download links to encoding programs, a decent forum, and guides. This particular link goes to a good guide on how to use Avisynth.

• Scintilla's Guide to AVISynth Postprocessing Filters  - another guide to Avisynth filters. Very detailed and pretty easy to understand.

• AnimeMusicVideo's guides - quite possibly the most helpful set of guides (for me at least). They are pretty clear and easy to understand but at the same time, explains some of the more technical aspects of encoding that are good to know.

Finally, I promised a video showing you how I encode. It's basically a quick, condensed version of this whole guide, put into action.


(best viewed in 720p using the expanded player on Youtube)


Edit: As promised, I finally wrote a follow up to this guide, explaining how I edit in MeGUI. Head on over to part eight.