Having said all this, the biggest factor in image quality is the clarity of the source, there's an old saying in computer science GIGO, garbage in garbage out.įor all practical purposes, the best encoder that most average consumers have access to is x264, only because it's legally free. i have also said that its psychovisual enhancement algorithms are detrimental to maintaining maximum quality and that 10bit x264 offers substantially better image quality than 8bit x264. go back and reread my "rants", what i have always said is that x264 is the most over-rated encoder ever created, that it's main developer mouth piece has spent extensive amount of time and energy spreading FUD about any other competitor in order to ensure x264's continued wide spread use and that if it wasn't legally free it wouldn't enjoy anywhere near the popularity it does. Try it yourself and see what you think rather than relying on the word of potentially biased strangers to tell you what to think. If our member deadrats joins this thread, you can expect a rant about how x264 is a POS and in fact is the biggest POS encoder ever made. The only h.264 encoders I'm familiar with that have good power and ease of use are handbrake and vidcoder, which ire very similar programs with different GUIs. Encoding is complex, and the settings you want to use depend on the video you're encoding, though you can use film and animation tunes. There are several very good encoders recommended here by serious video types, but they are not noob suitable. Quick/easy/noob friendly generally equals limited options/lack of parameters/poor quality.
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In fact many, many paid programs are just front ends for free command line encoders too.Īs mentioned, it depends upon how many features of x264 are implemented in the GUI. Those freeware encoders just implement a GUI for common open source encoders like x264. Noobs are always wanting a magic encoder.
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So you're not likely to get the same quality compressing a 1080p source. "Hollywood encoders"? Low budget indie movies may often shoot to 1080p HD video but "real" Hollywood movies are shot to h.265 at 2160p if not higher. I usually have them together in the same timeline and export them to H.264 Level 4.1. my other camera is Blu-Ray Video, (Canon VIXIA HF100)