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Developing Magic Lantern => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Benjos on April 16, 2023, 09:34:40 AM

Title: MLV App - Exporting in better H265
Post by: Benjos on April 16, 2023, 09:34:40 AM
The MLV App is almost perfect as it is right now, but there is still a little improvement that could be done. When exporting in H265 12bit 4.4.4, The result is incredibly good considering the weight of the file. However, it is still not as good as the Prores 4444 option. The problem is that for the same video, a H265 export will be more than 150x lighter than a Prores export (2.89MB for H265, 340MB for Prores). Right now, I export my videos in Prores to keep as much quality as I can, and by doing so, my storage suffers. I would love to export in H265 but the quality isn't good enough because of it's ridiculous bitrate.

What I'm requesting is to be able to choose the bitrate you want for your exports, especially in H265, so that we could export our videos with a smaller file size and a better image quality compared to Prores encoding. At least choosing between 500KB/s and 5MB/s in H265 12bit 4.4.4.

Thank you !
Title: Re: MLV App - Exporting in better H265
Post by: masc on April 18, 2023, 10:21:58 PM
What you asking for, already exists. Example: 5.2K EOSM export:
- H.265 12bit 444 "high" --> 36.2Mb/s = 4.5MB/s
- H.265 12bit 444 "medium" --> 5.4Mb/s = 0.67MB/s
Tested with MediaInfo.
Note: bitrate depends also on resolution and framerate.