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Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR
one encoded with 2-Pass and one with 1-Pass CRF, is equivalent!
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CRF mode is much more smarter then 2-pass mode.
CRF raises the quantizers in "fast" scenes where the loss won't be visible anyway and lower the quantizers in "slow" scenes. While encoding in two pass average bitrate mode "high motion" scenes will get a significant higher bitrate than "static" scenes. That's why pq cann't be equivalent. In practice, CRF+second pass mode looks noticeablely better.