Katanagatari 06
Haha wow...
Yeah, sorry about that filesize guys. But hey, it's crf 18 every time so I guess that means this ep has a lot of stuff in it!
Here ya go, ridiculous quality. And less ridiculous quality.
Couple notes:
There is massive spoilerage in the ending narration from 47:00 onwards. I don't know why they did that, but if you'd prefer to be surprised by what happens next episode, stop watching when the narrator starts talking at the end.
And since the filesize this time is admittedly thora-worthy, I'll explain a bit about how it works.
When you encode with x264 (which turns stuff into h.264 streams), you can go with either one pass or two pass encoding. With two pass, you target a particular bitrate, which the first pass calculates, and then actually encodes with the second pass to that bitrate, resulting in exact control over the filesize. With one pass, you tell x264 to use what's called crf - constant rate factor - which basically means you want the "quality" to be the same throughout the video. What this means is the filesize is highly dependent on the content of the video, and a scene with lots of action and changing shots will take up a lot more space than one that's just talking heads.
Our encoder chooses to go with one pass, at crf=18, and generally this results in a file around 800MB for a 50 minute show, but this episode apparently has enough detail and action that it boosted the filesize by a good 25% over average. We could, of course, re-encode using a lower crf now that we know this one's huge, but we're already late as it is, so today you get to watch crazy quality.
The End.
Had to dig to find someone interesting for this one:
Comments (88)
It is a complete mystery how almost 1gig is apparently needed to watch less than 1 hour at good quality.
Anyway, thanks a lot! I now have something awesome to watch tonight.
haha, jokeing, :P it was faster then last episode :D thx for the release can`t wait to see it
A few hours latter than i would like, but there's always tomorrow to watch it, and the bigger the file, the better the quality...
Tx guys for the hard work...
Is a higher CRF better or worse?
(ty for ur hard work @ angel beats / katanagatari anyway, great quality subs)
Not that I'm complaining.
@ tenshi, "why are filesizes continually going up instead of down (or at least remaining about the same with improved quality)?": Video resolution. What used to be 300000+ pixels or so turned into more than 3 times as much with 720p. And the first year or so of HDTV rips wasn't all that great in quality... We've come to expect more.
also, bd rip quality banzai... >_>
http://tinyurl.com/kata6alt
Anyway, thank you!
Also, thank you so much, mazui, for subbing this. Katanagatari is awesome, and so are you.
I hope your right that would be one nasty ass fight.
mazui - love u!
THANKS FOR THE SUB!
thats not true, the lower the CRF value the better the quality (CRF 16 is better than 18)
taken from a site for coding
" Good values of the Constant Rate Factor range between approximately 18 and 26 (where a lower value produces higher quality but larger file sizes). "
The spoiler wasn't just telling us who this "mysterious" person was what happens to him/her in the next episode.
47:15: "in his next fight, he will undergo the experience of killing his own sister"
Now, if that wasn't mistranslated, I think that's a pretty damn annoying spoiler
Thanks Mazui, excellent work as usual
~td99
Plus it makes us think that they'll subvert it when they actually won't.
So this spoiler is made intentionaly to build up tention until the next ep. So ppl wana see this ep. and know what realy is gona happend.
feels bad man.
compared to other anime.
Read Angel Beats 6 Archive for Intructions.
You need these things "[]" around it if you want the spoiler tags to work. In other news, Unfortunately we can't use the fact that we see Nanami and Shichika together in the next episode preview to determine whether on not we'll see their fight because the episode before the Sabi Hakuhei fight had footage from their fight in it as well T_T
because it was freaking obvious already :3
But again, it's hard to guess what Nisioisin prepared next.
How about why?
I think it's pretty clear from the ep.3 just how miserable Nanami life has been. I think she would welcome death. In this case the only person able to grant her this wish may be her brother. Even if that's not the case she may want it to be her brother's hand that brings her this peace, (you have to think Japanese for that part).
She helps her brother by attaining another sword, helping him break free of the responsibility for her and gains the freedom for her constant pain and suffering.
I would like to see her kick some more Maniwani butt thought before she bites it.
Just an opinion. Any thoughts?
Thank you again !
PS : Sorry for my bad english, i'm from algeria ^^
too much anime i forgot this was on my list and miss 2 eps now :(
If Konayuki is 11... and lived in Itezora for 10 years... Her village woulod have been destroyed about a year ago and not by Nanami. Unless its a trick that she turned 11 in the previous two months.
Also I think the spoiler may be somewhat true, but also a throw off, just like that awesome fight we saw Ep 4. It. Was. Amazing. Feeling bad for that island right now. If the Narration is supposed to be like Togame report... Then it's probably made to attract attention.