bloodrush
20th June 2005, 19:42
Just a quick question on 1-pass quality encodes. I encoded Hitch in 1-pass 608 fixed width, 128 Average Mp3, 70% quality.
The file came out to 752 MB. The movie looks great in all scenes except one night scene where there is very little movement. When they are laying down talking, just head shots basically, there is a lot of break up and blocks in the picture. Skin tones shift a little and the furniture in the background, the color shifts. That's the best way to describe it. It's obvious that there isn't enough bitrate in those scenes. I know the obvious answer is to up the quality % higher. I would just like to know at what % point this would stop being an issue. I'm worried that this might happen on other movies I encode in the future. File size doesn't matter that much as I'm using a standalone Hard Drive enclosure, but file size does matter a little bit obviously. I don't want to go too crazy with file size, then I might as well back-up to DVD.
Thanks for the suggestions,
--bloodrush
The file came out to 752 MB. The movie looks great in all scenes except one night scene where there is very little movement. When they are laying down talking, just head shots basically, there is a lot of break up and blocks in the picture. Skin tones shift a little and the furniture in the background, the color shifts. That's the best way to describe it. It's obvious that there isn't enough bitrate in those scenes. I know the obvious answer is to up the quality % higher. I would just like to know at what % point this would stop being an issue. I'm worried that this might happen on other movies I encode in the future. File size doesn't matter that much as I'm using a standalone Hard Drive enclosure, but file size does matter a little bit obviously. I don't want to go too crazy with file size, then I might as well back-up to DVD.
Thanks for the suggestions,
--bloodrush