Hi Craig,
I had the same feeling, that the problem is caused by the low complexity of the video. Telestream Episode and Sorenson Squeeze are quite expensive pieces of software so this would be my last choice. The problem is that the VOD platform will not accept video with the lower bitrate than expected. Since the expected format is a h264 video wrapped in the mov container, I am not sure if there is a way to create such a file with a constant bitrate like with the transport stream. I am fairly new to this, please excuse if I am making not much sense here 🙂 As I have mentioned, in Handbreak I even tried loosless settings which normally produces huge files. In my case it just doesn’t work.
So I assume the question is now – how to produce a h264 video in a mov container with some sort of “forced” constant bitrate?
Kind regards
Andrzej