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[Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 4:43 pm
by fragrantEmulsion
After months I'm back with a re-release of Softcore Collaboration 2.

It still has the original 8 rounds from high_octane, mr123, caius prepus, in.naughtymood, and a mystery contributor. However, it also has a new intro from Frantzo, and a round that I added which I cut from Descent 2. I have re-configured the positioning of the rounds in hopes of providing a more enjoyable peak and valley experience.

It is in 1080p h.264 now (3.6 GB). I tried to target 10 MB/s bitrate with audio settings as high as premiere would go. If someone wants to tell me how to compress it without losing quality, I have FFMPEG and can operate a command line about as well as your average grandma can use the email.

Let me know what you think.

Mega link:
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https://mega.nz/#!CRI3jIgY!V04vq4QNqQ4C ... JwRpeYCeqg
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Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:15 pm
by doremi
;-) Quoting myself:
doremi wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:14 pm the generated output of your video editor may be bloated, too big for not any significant benefit. One thing you can do is use HANDBRAKE with the RF18 Constant Quality option, all other options by default. You'd be surprised how smaller the video becomes, without any impact to the quality.


LINKS:

HandBrake, The open source video transcoder
https://handbrake.fr/

For future reference, here's the original Hanbrake post by Eriol:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12815&hilit=Handbrake#p164242
Interesting for further details about the process.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:41 pm
by fagustree
When playing around with pseudonym's demo videos I took his mp4s and converted them with vp9, 2 pass... Around 10m bitrate with good results that can be further tweaked.

https://cyoa.club/help/blog/index.html

This commands are special purpose for getting transparent black and all the audio in the bm file, but if you need help, you can pm me

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:01 am
by fragrantEmulsion
fagustree wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:41 pm This commands are special purpose for getting transparent black and all the audio in the bm file, but if you need help, you can pm me
So this means that the overlayed beatmeter is not a real time animation?

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:21 am
by fagustree
fragrantEmulsion wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:01 am So this means that the overlayed beatmeter is not a real time animation?
It can be chosen real time, but the beatmeter and the beats (and the music) go on the beat track for perfect synchronization.
dynamic beatmeters may be possible with better media controls and/or WASM compiled code that render and process their own media...

Right now the tools available don't offer that kind of control

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:58 am
by high_octane
fragrantEmulsion wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 4:43 pm If someone wants to tell me how to compress it without losing quality, I have FFMPEG and can operate a command line about as well as your average grandma can use the email.
3.6 GiB seems reasonable to me, but maybe it can be further compressed. Of course, it's not possible to compress it without losing quality, but the amount of quality lost will most likely be imperceptible.

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ffmpeg -i "$input" -map_metadata 0 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset veryslow -c:a copy "$output"
-i "$input" :: The input stream. I used bash style variables to represent the input and output files.

-map_metadata 0 :: Preserves the metadata (like timestamps, etc.) of input stream 0, which is the only input stream in this example, and copies it to the output stream.

-c:v libx264 :: Selects the video codec, in this case, x264.

-crf 18 :: Constant Rate Factor. Variable bitrate mode which preserves quality. When the input is difficult to compress, the bitrate in increased. When the input is simple to compress, the bitrate is decreased. The scale for crf is logarithmic, and lower values increase quality at the expense of file size. 18 is considered to be nearly lossless, but won't end up bloating the file size.

-preset veryslow :: x264 has a number of presets, which determine the time / quality;size tradeoff. Here, there is a positive correlation between increased quality and decreased file size (unlike with x265...), so basically, the slower the preset, the better the results. veryslow is the slowest preset worth using.

-c:a copy :: Selects the audio codec. copy means to copy the bitstream of the audio track exactly from the input stream. This process does not re-encode the audio. I've found that the built-in aac encoder ffmpeg uses is utter trash and should not be used. If you really need to re-encode the audio, I'd recommend using Apple's aac encoder (which is kind of a pain in the ass to use on Windows). Since you used Mainconcept's aac encoder, which is packaged with Adobe Premiere, you could probably just use that, but choose a bitrate like 128 kb/s. I'm not familiar with that aac encoder flavor, so if it sounds warbly, then maybe you need to increase it, but no more than 192 kb/s.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:02 am
by zingg2
fragrantEmulsion wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 4:43 pm Waiting on our resident torrentier...
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Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:55 pm
by s53ken
Great idea to put Gloria Sol to the final round as it is the hardest one to bring us to cum.

I kinda want a new CH-Gloria Sol series. 5 mins of her in this chapter is hard enough, imagine if it lasts 40 mins of Gloria :w00t:

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:19 pm
by fragrantEmulsion
high_octane wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:58 am 3.6 GiB seems reasonable to me, but maybe it can be further compressed. Of course, it's not possible to compress it without losing quality, but the amount of quality lost will most likely be imperceptible.

I'm not familiar with that aac encoder flavor, so if it sounds warbly, then maybe you need to increase it, but no more than 192 kb/s.
Yeah 10 MB/s 1080p at 3.6GB seems pretty good to me.

Premiere's maximum audio bitrate is 320 kb/s but I feel like it doesn't matter because most of us are using shittily compressed mp3s. Either way this was a difference of 200MB overall.
s53ken wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:55 pm I kinda want a new CH-Gloria Sol series. 5 mins of her in this chapter is hard enough, imagine if it lasts 40 mins of Gloria :w00t:
Good idea.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:22 am
by BoundSquirrel
Any chance of a beat track for this? :smile:

Thanks in advance!

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:40 am
by Sgt_Alex
Oh my gosh, is this what I think is? :w00t:
Thank's for posting, we've finaly get it :lol:

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:08 pm
by fragrantEmulsion
BoundSquirrel wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:22 am Any chance of a beat track for this? :smile:

Thanks in advance!
What exactly do you need? I can probably make a .wav of all the beat files.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:40 pm
by LucySD
This is totally incredible, I’m so glad I waited until now instead of playing the beta.

I have to say if this is the standard of what you are *cutting* from Descent 2, then I can’t imagine how good the stuff is that you’re keeping in.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:00 am
by fragrantEmulsion
LucySD wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:40 pm This is totally incredible, I’m so glad I waited until now instead of playing the beta.

I have to say if this is the standard of what you are *cutting* from Descent 2, then I can’t imagine how good the stuff is that you’re keeping in.
I cut it because it didn't fit the vibe. I don't think it was a quality thing on my end.

Re: [Re-Release] Softcore Collaboration 2

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:30 pm
by Caius Prepus
Thanks for releasing that thing at last :)

I am quite out of the loop right now... sorry for that.

Hope that people will like it.