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musicvid10 wrote on 8/2/2014, 8:07 AM
First of all, all h264 codecs are terrific at high bitrates. Below 10Mbs, however, quality differences begin to show, and some codecs seem to be worse than others at consumer bitrates..

You should give Handbrake (x264) a spin. It's free.

amendegw wrote on 8/2/2014, 9:12 AM
musicvid is, imho, the guru on this subject. FWIW, a couple years back I did some testing of encoders at low bitrates (1.2Mbps) And found Handbrake best, then Mainconcept. The Sony AVC brought up the rear. Results are here: Local Low Bitrate Testing

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Spirit of Eden wrote on 8/2/2014, 2:23 PM
Excellent stuff. I've just spent a profitable hour going through the "better" method. I took my best guesses with 25p 1920x1080 source, but looking at the outputs on Youtube and Wistia. They are very good.
relaxvideo wrote on 8/3/2014, 2:36 AM
I see picture sharpness changes at every GOP start with Vegas built in codec even at high bitrate, where Ripbot264 is superior.
And below 10mbit, Ripbot is faar superior than sony/mainconcept.
It works with frameserver and a short avisynth script for handling color space correctly.
It's also free, give it a try!

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Arthur.S wrote on 8/3/2014, 4:31 AM
The one thing that puts me off of Ripbot is it requires so many 3rd party apps to be installed. I'm always wary of something upsetting system stability. Especially as it took so long (for me) to get a stable version of V12.
relaxvideo wrote on 8/3/2014, 11:53 AM
It doesn't need anything that will change your system stability,
like codecpack, etc :)

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NormanPCN wrote on 8/3/2014, 6:07 PM
Lately I have tried frameserving to ffmpeg. Currently using a batch file for proof of concept but I am going to write utility program to make setting options easy.

I should be able to have it render AVC and DNxHD and ProRes. Really anything but those were ideas to target.
musicvid10 wrote on 8/3/2014, 6:11 PM
MeGUI does that.