Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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Phaedra
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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Yes, but how do you use those settings? In what software?
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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x264
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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Do you have a link?
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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For what?
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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I have a DMG dile, x264Encoder. In it are:

CoreVF.dmg
sources.dmg

x264Encoder.component (but I'm sure this no longer works with quicktime?)
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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I have no idea how you import video files to encode.
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x264 is a command-line application. You can install it via e.g. Homebrew https://brew.sh
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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I did try that, however I could only do basic encoides and could not figure out how to add commands regarding film grain etc. Terminal would not accept them.
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Phaedra wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:23 pm I have a DMG dile, x264Encoder. In it are:

CoreVF.dmg
sources.dmg

x264Encoder.component (but I'm sure this no longer works with quicktime?)
According to the internet, .DMG is a Mac system backup file. meaning it isn't for video. Or Handbrake.
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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.DMG is a Mac disk image file, or an installion file.
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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Phaedra wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:06 pm I did try that, however I could only do basic encoides and could not figure out how to add commands regarding film grain etc. Terminal would not accept them.
This is all you need:

x264 --bitrate XXXXX --preset veryslow --tune film --bluray-compat --vbv-maxrate 40000 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --level 4.1 --keyint 24 --open-gop --slices 4 --colorprim "bt709" --transfer "bt709" --colormatrix "bt709" --sar 1:1 --pass 2 -o out.264 input.file

You can change the tune to grain if you need to.
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Re: Help with x264 enccoding for Bl-ray authoring

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I've tried those setting but Terminal doesn't seem to recognise them.
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