Higher-quality encoding for MPEG-2 and H264 than available in Sony Vegas, also with better deinterlacing (yadif) and resizing (lanczos3).Guide: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/HandBrakeGuideRecommended:
- Eugenia advice re encoding for Vime
- Sony Vegas Forum
- http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=761257
- musicvid:
- Handbrake x264 (has) excellent quality vs. compression when compared with the AVC encoders in Vegas at bitrates<10Mbs, in our tests.
- The other quality concerns are resizing and deinterlacing when applicable, which employ more advanced methods in Handbrake
- Hulk:
- If you’re considering Handbrake you should check out Mediacoder. I’ve used both and in my opinion Mediacoder is much more flexible and gives MUCH better output at low bitrates than Handbrake using H264. The picture degrades “naturally” when the bitrate is too low, no massisive macroblocking anomolies that you’ll see in Handbrake. Mediacoder is more difficult to use but also much more flexible.
- Nick Hope:
- But it doesn’t look like Mediacoder has as sophisticated deinterlacing/decombing as Handbrake’s decomb. Just bicubic, Yadif etc
- musicvid:
- http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=745821
- How to config it so it’s rendered files will open in Sony Vegas
- http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=761257
- http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=761257
- Other websites:
- https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/HandBrakeGuide
- https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/yadif
- Explains in beautiful graphics how yadif works
- http://www.jazzythedog.com/testing/DNxHD/HD-Guide.aspx
- Tests have confirmed the visual quality surpasses both the MainConcept AVC/AAC & Sony AVC encoders available in Sony Vegas – particularly and lower bitrates.
- http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-video/Vegas-YouTube-Vimeo.htm
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