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Originally Posted by XMonarchY
I would really appreciate someone putting on the right path of figuring all this stuff out!
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So adding only to previous feedback (totally agree with almost everything above).
H.265 is tailored for future and mostly for 4k (UHD) content.
Today is time for H.264 and HD.
H.265 is still in relatively early stage of development and as such H.264 is currently better choice (wise from quality, cost and coding time).
H.264 and H.265 are codecs to deliver content not to edit content and encoding of the H.264/H.265 file is the last thing in your processing chain - for real edit work use different file format - preferably lossless.
There are INTRAframe versions of H.264 (H265?) used for edit work but they mainly focus on accessibility not on compression.
You may consider VP9 as codec alternative to H.264/H.265 (it works better on YT for games - YT VP9 quality is better than H.264 as YT promoting VP9 and intentionally [IMHO] reducing H.264 quality).