hanumang wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:19 pmWhat do you recommend as a paid encoding application? I am waiting for Apple to update Compressor to support h265 but, in the meantime, I haven't come across anything that seem remotely legit.
Yes, it's damn strange that Apple would omit full High Sierra/11 support from their own software, but that's the sort of braindead thing that's been going on ever since Jobs' passing. They promise before XMas, though...
Remember, 4K (or UHD) on its own is not the same as HDR, just as 10-bit colour on its own is not the same as HDR. So there'll be plenty of things that will support 4K or 10-bit encoding, but won't have any HDR function.
If it's genuine HDR output that you want, rather than simple 10-bit 4K, then the sort of software I was talking about is Vegas, Premier or DaVinci costing $hundreds. These offer the full 10/12-bit mastering engines and colour grading operations that are required for HDR (even though Premier has the dopiest HDR workflows ever devised).
At the much lower end of the scale, MacX Pro
allegedly is capable of using QSV under macOS, which is very interesting if true. I reckon that's questionable (AVC or decode only?), as is whether it processes HDR sources in 10-bits rather than 8-bits (the same limitation as HandBrake).