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Old 29th October 2018, 18:36   #25  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Boulder View Post
In case someone else is working with HDR sources and does CRF encoding: you need to lower CRF quite a lot compared to SDR sources. I did some testing with an episode of Game of Thrones S01 and the result was that CRF 15 produced sufficient quality when the final resolution was 1080p. With SDR sources, CRF 20.5 is the sweet spot for me.
Hmm. I haven’t seen nearly such a differential. Were you using —hdr-opt and —aq-mode 2 with the HDR?
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