Exporting H.264 Using High Quality Profile

[Bernhard G.]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” It’s not cheap”

That’s the point. And FFmpeg is Open Source!

Nevertheless, an FCP-X interface-GUI making use of it
(means you would need to install FFmpeg separately yourself)
would be more than worth a fair shareware fee.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Handbrake is great. I use it a lot.”

By this I guess you prefer it over MPEG StreamClip? No one in this thread has mentioned it as an alternative.

I recently had to stop using any Apple MP4 exporter like Compressor, QT 7, or direct FCP X exports because I had a user on my website that couldn’t view my video on his newer Android device (last time I tested, my MP4s worked on all devices and all flavors). I typically use x264 over H.264, but neither variation worked for this guy. I then tried an x264 export from MPEG StreamClip (with fairly default settings) and it worked for him. I never did figure out the problem and I haven’t had any complaints since this one fellow.

Back to Handbrake. I haven’t used it in many years since up until now Compressor was main export app, but why Handbrake over MPEG StreamClip?

Thanks,
Dave

[Jeremy Garchow]

Handbrake is very easy, has great quality, and decent presets for iDevices. It also lets you dig in to the advanced controls if you need it.

I don’t use streamclip for anything but converting Mpeg2 to ProRes. Nothing against it, I just find handbrake easier to make mp4/iDevice movies.

Although, Compressor 4.1 is really pretty good and it’s easy to make different Compressor settings to use right out of X.

Jeremy

[James Lackleter]

Has anyone found an affordable way to transcode ProRes 4444 to HEVC High at 4k, or h.264 high 4:4:4 at 4k?

[Bernhard G.]

Hello,

the simple reasons are x264’s sovereigns quality and it’s speed within HandBrake.

Streamclip uses quicktime components to encode H.264:
means it either uses the same component as Compressor;
or it uses the available x264 component which is (due to Quicktime) not
that speed-optimized as the x264 implementation in HandBrake.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Dave Gage]

[Bernhard Grininger] “Streamclip uses quicktime components to encode H.264:
means it either uses the same component as Compressor;
or it uses the available x264 component which is (due to Quicktime) not
that speed-optimized as the x264 implementation in HandBrake.”

Good to know. I always considered it the the DVD ripping app. I’ll download a newer version and give it a shot since it’s been years evening opening it up. From what you said, it sounds like HandBrake ships with the x264 codec or did you need to download it?

Bernhard, any idea why that one user I had couldn’t view my Apple encoded MP4s with his Android device, but could with the MPEG Streamclip encoding?

Thanks,
Dave