Suggestions for x265 settings
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:22 am
Hello!
So now that it's getting a bit chilly I figured I'd heat things up with encoding a bit.
I grabbed the nightly a few days ago and started with some grainy movies. The first is the Criterion Le Samourai, which after ~20 hours (1.9 fps), looks great! But it's a bit bigger than I was hoping for. I know grainy movies are going to be bigger, or even bigger than the source, but I was hoping for the x265 cure all to file size.
I set it to a CRF of 22 and used the Grain tune, and the Main10 profile. I'm wondering if I maybe was too conservative with the CRF, or if I should have used one of the other profiles? The workstation is beyond laggy with the encodes going so it's a bit of pain to grab the log right now. But I'm pretty sure that's what I set it for.
So, suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks!
SC
So now that it's getting a bit chilly I figured I'd heat things up with encoding a bit.
I grabbed the nightly a few days ago and started with some grainy movies. The first is the Criterion Le Samourai, which after ~20 hours (1.9 fps), looks great! But it's a bit bigger than I was hoping for. I know grainy movies are going to be bigger, or even bigger than the source, but I was hoping for the x265 cure all to file size.
I set it to a CRF of 22 and used the Grain tune, and the Main10 profile. I'm wondering if I maybe was too conservative with the CRF, or if I should have used one of the other profiles? The workstation is beyond laggy with the encodes going so it's a bit of pain to grab the log right now. But I'm pretty sure that's what I set it for.
So, suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks!
SC