What do you use for your final encode?

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What do you use for your final encode?

Postby BadgerKing » Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:18 pm

I'm curious if people still follow the guide and use TMPGEnc and/or zarx264gui, or if they're using another program. Also, for convention submissions, do you still submit it as an MPEG-2? It seems that some conventions are preferring MP4 these days, but I've still had terrible results getting a good encode with that from other programs (Handbrake, for example)? I've been sticking pretty much to the guides, but I've had issues lately with encoding in MPEG-2 (timecode issues when playing the file in WMP - still hugely frustrating problem for me, but I digress)?
Any thoughts, suggestions, different methods that you use?
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Rider4Z » Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:30 pm

Most cons are shifting to favoring mp4's. Try using AMVsimple provided by AKROSS. It provides compressing into high quality, standard, and preview size mp4s.
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:54 pm

??.or zarxgui as the OP mentioned. V3 was released quite a while ago.
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Enigmo » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:44 pm

I render every frame of my video in .png format and then enter them into Photoshop to render as my final encode. Photoshop's h.264 video encoding is pretty good.
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Rider4Z » Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:38 pm

dude wat?
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby hasteroth » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:41 pm

I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Enigmo » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:49 pm

hasteroth wrote:I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound

That's such a stupid way to encode VIDEOS
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby hasteroth » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:32 pm

Enigmo wrote:
hasteroth wrote:I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound

That's such a stupid way to encode VIDEOS

Still a moving picture, so it's still a video.

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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Qyot27 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:50 am

10-bit 4:4:4 H.264 and Opus. Could also use HEVC at this point now too, but I've not got anything in the pipeline to release. I'd totally do it, though.
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby Shui » Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:34 am

I import the pictures into flash, then release it as swf. It's cool because that way you can loop it and even though you didn't edit as much your video is longer than all the others.
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Re: What do you use for your final encode?

Postby JudgeHolden » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:15 pm

BadgerKing wrote:I'm curious if people still follow the guide and use TMPGEnc and/or zarx264gui, or if they're using another program. Also, for convention submissions, do you still submit it as an MPEG-2? It seems that some conventions are preferring MP4 these days, but I've still had terrible results getting a good encode with that from other programs (Handbrake, for example)? I've been sticking pretty much to the guides, but I've had issues lately with encoding in MPEG-2 (timecode issues when playing the file in WMP - still hugely frustrating problem for me, but I digress)?
Any thoughts, suggestions, different methods that you use?


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