In very early practice with this I have found that converting large .avi files to H:264 yields incredible quality at smaller file sizes with this but when I take my Sony vegas mpeg-2's and render them to H:264 I can see the loss in quality quite a bit so you may want to try some capturing at .avi and render to H:264 in handbrake and see what you come up with as you are more experienced with this than I am. This is fun though, this will give me something to work on as things slow down a bit through the holidays.
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Originally Posted by NickE
I like the h264 codec a lot. For videos on our team website, I've been exporting them as a Mpeg2 from premiere at the resolution that I want. I then run them through HandBrake with a size entered (I use about 12-15mb for match videos. Longer Videos obviously need a larger size.). You can also just specify an average bit rate. Be sure it's doing 2 passes.
It doesn't get the integrated capture that you want, but it works pretty well. The key to getting high quality with h264 is having 2 pass encoding, I've found. The first pass analyzes the video so that the second pass can allocate the variable bit rate, giving a higher bit rate to the parts that need it while still keeping the specified average bit rate. |