HandBrake

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

For archival encodes, x265 doesn’t typically excel over x264 unless the source is higher resolution than 1080p.

Smithcraft wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:22 ambut I was hoping for the x265 cure all to file size.

You've been woefully mislead.

Smithcraft wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:22 amThe workstation is beyond laggy with the encodes going so it's a bit of pain to grab the log right now.

Upgrade to an OS with a working scheduler.

mduell wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2017 12:55 pm

Smithcraft wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:22 amThe workstation is beyond laggy with the encodes going so it's a bit of pain to grab the log right now.

Upgrade to an OS with a working scheduler.

Having all the files working under one file system seems to make things easier. So Windows 7 Pro 64bit remains as the workstations OS. Thanks though.

SC