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Originally Posted by Asmodian
Is storage or speed the most important?
For this use case I suggest encoding it in a method compatible with 4K bluray. You don't want to store it at a higher bitrate than a 4K bluray do you? Recompressing just to get the video compatible with hardware seems wrong.
4K bluray is a high quality very compatible option so it is a decent archival target if you are storing 4:2:0 H.264/5 video.
I would use something like x265 crf 16. 12 is excessive with x265 even for archival purposes.
A nice fast veryslow crf 12 to 14 with x264 is also a great option but then this post isn't very helpful, is it? 
x264 would probably be a much faster workflow, do you have a dedicated encoding machine that you don't mind being busy most of the time? |
4k bluray was just an example for the kind of quality im looking for, as well as a size ceiling. Not necessarily a compatible file. Yes crf 16 with x265 should be fine, 12 is a little big. X264 is very fast on my machine, so given its 8 bit SDR ill give it a try and see how the size comes out. If not, x265 it will be, thanks.