In my experience, though, people doing theatrical exhibition tend to be a bit conservative--so it'll be hard to get a set of best practices to catch on unless the process is dead simple. I'm thinking that including a digital cinema preset along these lines in Handbrake's standard set might be a big help. Would you consider adding something like this to the next release?
Best,
Nick Fox-Gieg
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