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Old 21st February 2021, 06:33   #2  |  Link
Asmodian
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Is storage or speed the most important?

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Originally Posted by YaBoyShredderson View Post
It needs to be good enough that you would have absolutely no qualms about encoding it again if need be, something like a 4k bluray.
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?
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