You are encoding Anime. Anime compresses like a billion percent better than any "real footage" will! This is a full motion trailer that will definately push any codec to it's extreme limits - super fine detail [snow scene, among others], low lighting [most of the transitions], high movement action [again, half of the scenes], as opposed to, what, the single-shade skin colours of cartoons and a girl standing there for 10 seconds with a drip on her forehead!?!?! Srsly you can't compare them really you should know this man :) im not saying x264 sucks hey, I seriously am just getting better results from this encoder right now and I'm admitting being a noob at the AVC encoder its way mo0re tech than DivX! Just look at the video man and give me some advice if you have any i won't throw it back or anything lol im tryin to find out what is best is all for the good of all of us :) x264 is too crazy to tweak!

But for consistency's sake, I will encode the first epsiode of HELLSING right now with these settings. And I have no idea what CRF means by the way. Does x264 support 2-Pass Quantization-based encoding? And is that 'CRF' anyway? 2-Pass VBR will produce a better result than 1-Pass CQ [Constant Quality/Quantization] for.... well it's self explainatory isn't it, it lowers the bitrate on repeated frames and raises it on high motion ones :P But with anime I could set the ABR to 200kbps and it'd still look near DVD quality LOL!

Anyway please jus check out the video, its only 18MB, and give your suggestions.... correct me if im wrong man im not challenging anyone here hey I'm sorry if i offended.... :(

P.S. Feel free to hold off until my Hellsing encode finishes and I write back and, probably, prove myself wrong in thinking my settings are uber l33t :)