2019 great x265 4k settings?

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Originally Posted by Nico8583

Hi,
I tried some settings and some encodes but I can see every time x265 lose a lot of details, even with a high bitrate (2 pass 35 MBits, CRF16...)
Do you have some tricks to encode ?
Thank you !

Preset slow, or lower, and --no-sao --no-strong-intra-smoothing --deblock -1:-1.

Sounds a bit odd that you lose a lot of detail at crf16 though (unless you are using a fast preset). Mind sharing settings and some samples?