i'd sure would love some help with settings...
i'm pretty comfortable with x264 via MeGUI, however ffmpeg syntax gives me a headache.
i was told to try encoding VP9 to get practice for AV1, but i couldn't control the filesize with Handbrake regardless of CRF 25, 36, or 42. but at least i got ~40% cpu usage. so then i switched to AV1 encoding directly from ffmpeg, but couldn't for the life of me get past frame 53 until i got rid of -v:b 0, which
the @#@!#$ instructions TELL you do use. still not sure i'm going to get a usable file as it's not growing beyond 5kB, but we'll see in 10-30 minutes