Processing

After you've successfully recorded your speedrun, you're not quite done. You're going to need to do a bit of processing on your recordings to get a video that you can submit to SDA. There are two ways to get this done.

Anri-chan Anri-chan will ask you a few simple questions and do all the complex work for you. We strongly recommend that you use it.

Encode it yourself You will be writing the script to encode your run and encoding it manually. This IS NOT recommended for beginners.

Encoding Options

Anri-chan

Anri-chan is an incredible tool made by some of the fine folks at SDA that makes video processing easy.

What Anri-chan will do for you

• Prepare sample and test capture to help identify any recording capture issues
• Process raw recording files from a variety of screen recording programs and capture devices into a format acceptable for an SDA submission
• Join multiple raw recording files into a single video file
• Extract recordings from a DVD player for processing
• Add audio commentary tracks to a fully processed video

What Anri-chan won't do for you

• Fixing progressive audio desync
• Subtitles

Coding yourself

Anri-chan is usually the fastest and easiest way of processing recordings. While it is difficult, you certainly have the option of processing the runs yourself manually. You might have to put in some additional work in your run because there are some things that Anri-chan won't handle for you.