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LigH · 22nd May 2013, 10:54

If you are not yet very experienced, only use {1-pass:CRF or 2-pass:bitrate}, speed preset, content tuning, and possibly playback device. If you like, make your own profile with these options.

3-pass encoding is not recommendable in general. It was an attempt to optimize very low bitrate encodings, but the results might look even more artifical than a 2-pass or CRF encoding, due to a more narrow quantization range. Nothing substitutes "enough bitrate".

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LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, rural Altmark Posts: 6,784	If you are not yet very experienced, only use {1-pass:CRF or 2-pass:bitrate}, speed preset, content tuning, and possibly playback device. If you like, make your own profile with these options. 3-pass encoding is not recommendable in general. It was an attempt to optimize very low bitrate encodings, but the results might look even more artifical than a 2-pass or CRF encoding, due to a more narrow quantization range. Nothing substitutes "enough bitrate". __________________ New German Gleitz board MediaFire: x264 \| x265 \| VPx \| AOM \| Xvid Last edited by LigH; 22nd May 2013 at 10:57.