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> sergey krs
It seems he is inactive right now, or at least doesn't releasing his encodes as he might think no one needs them.
> kuramori
I saw his releases on Nyaa, but don't know about his plans.
> tp7
Working on some Russian organization, looks like he is done for encoding.
Okay, I'll try to introduce Beatrice members.
DJATOM
My first encode — the 1st episode of 3rd season of Avatar the last Airbender, I did it in 2008. Literally I know nothing about x264 encoding that time, so it was highly criticized by the forum's moderator.
I've started to read the docs about various stuff.
In 2009 I've watched my first animes, and I tried to encode some of them later.
Up to 2012 the quality was usually bad, as lack of guidance and knowledge will lead to nothing in the result. But I think it was good experience, I've learned a lot of various stuff on my own. That's the best experience I can dream of.
In 2012 I've bought a new notebook (with core i7 cpu) and it was incredibly fast against my old one.
My first BD encode was Ano Natsu de Matteru (TV), I marked it as DJATOM-Raws. Literally that encode has no filtering and slightly low CRF for that kind of source.
My first properly filtered encode is Asa made Jugyou Chu. zeros12390 from Yousei-Raws shared some MDegrain1 + GradFun3 snippet that was my main filtering script up to 2015 (it was edited later; I've merged f3kdb and GradFun3 to reach better results).
In 2014 I've bought new PC with i5-4670k, and it was notably faster than my Notebook, that time I've started to encode more shows at that time.
In 2015 people started to join to Beatrice-Raws, tonik made InsaneAA and shared it with us.
I'd like to think of 2015 as an revolution for Beatrice team, as it was notable boost in the quality of releases. In the end 2017 (autumn, to be precise) I've started to tinkering with VapourSynth, some other members also moved to it as the main filtering framework. That was another boost in the quality.
In the October of that year I've dropped my job and started to seek for another, that was one of the most productive periods for me (some other was at 2014-2015, at some point I managed to make 1 release at 1 week).
In the February I found a new job, so almost had no time for encoding. In the April that job were dropped and I continued with freelance. So I had some more time for encodes that year, and made few another encodes that year.
That December I've got another job, so current projects are waiting for their time to come.
tonik
Matured encoder. He knows a lot about encoding of DVD sources, especially how to deal with IVTC.
He is one of InsaneAA authors, our main anti-aliasing script from 2015.
Jensen
Joined in 2015, he was new to anime encoding, but already knew about basics, so it was not that hard for him to inherit the knowledge I had about encoding. Literally he is good (or bad) as I am, but probably he knows more about HEVC encoding than me (I'm still learning and gathering experience at my first HEVC project).
Vladdrako
Joined to Beatrice before Jensen; he had a lot of enthusiasm at that time. His first encodes might be bad (due to lack of our knowledge and over-filtering — he made some revisions later). Now he is suffering from certain illness, so almost can't sit at computer and encode.
frost (=^_^=)
Joined after Jensen (with X-Kira). Almost like Jensen, but not that experienced with VapourSynth. He usually writes avs scripts and asks me or Jensen to rewrite them for VS.
I think of it as laziness, as learning new scripting is not that hard.
Horodep
Yet another avisynth user, his encodes usually as the same as mine or Jensen's.
Mulder, Urotsuki
Old school lovers. First one is also a fansuber; we meet each other on some Russian fansub site.
Urotsuki was skilled on it's own. Mulder is a newbie, but learning things fast.
DeadNews
He was joined while I've started to work on LWA. Actually he did QC for that encode, helped me with detection of bad aliasing scenes, banding, etc. At the same time he's learned about encoding.
CaypoH
The least experienced encoder. Usually asks in the group chat how to deal with certain sources. He is a huge Hentai fan btw :D
Beatrice
Actually that's a Leopard (the same as from Leopard-Raws). I have nothing to add about him, he's dropped BD encoding in 2013 or so.
Also we have a people who sharing their computation resources, for example XavieR and kagino providing a few 2 CPU Xeon setups for us. Almost all encodes from 2016 were done using XavieR's servers. |
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