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Originally Posted by Taddeusz

BTW, what settings do you use to compress? Previously I was using a straight 2000kb/s compression rate. This would give me approximately 1GB/hr with the original AC3 audio. I was playing around a couple weeks ago and discovered that I could cut sizes down by quite a bit by using CRF compression with a quality value of around 23. Depending on the movie I have to turn around and use the variable mode and set a specific size. Some movies look good at 23 and some don't. Just depends. I had an anime with a length of 2hr & 40min come out this morning at about 1.4GB and looked really good. Again, it just depends on the content.

Thanks, I will try that flag. I typically use CRF of 18 for movies and use set size for TV shows. I typically crop the black bars (auto-crop) to save a little space. Now that I am playing with anamorphic, I may change the cropping.