x264 is what's used by platforms like Youtube / Vimeo. x264 is pretty much the frontier when it comes at low size output for a given quality target, or quality for a given bitrate target. Here are a couple of examples:Ĭlearly, I must be missing something pretty fundamental here, but what? Is it possible that Adobe Media Encoder is so much inferior to libx264? Did I miss some key encoding parameter? (There do not seem to exist many in AME, nor they look like those of libx264.)Īdobe licenses its H.264 encoder from Mainconcept, which doesn't do that well at low bitrates. The problem is that the quality degraded very noticeably. Size went down to 112 MB and, although not as small as the libx264 file, I thought it would be ok. I tried (also exploring blindly different profiles: Main, High, High10) and set the target and maximum bitrate also to the minimum (0.19 Mbps again). This makes little sense to me, but then I read somewhere to use the "Software Encoding" to get small files. I would not manage to go below 650 MB with the smallest target bitrate (0.19 Mbps) but could reach 420 MB with a target bitrate of 1 Mbps.
Then, I spent an inordinate amount of time with the default H.264 encoder ("Hardware Encoding") to explore what happens reducing the only control I thought I should focus on (Target Bitrate). Firstly, I reduced the resolution to 1920x1080 during the export. Great, but, of course, I thought that I would not reencode with libx264 and rather produce similarly small files directly from Adobe Media Encoder. I did not run myself but he sent me an example and my 1.4 GB file went down to 74 MB without any particularly noticeable quality loss (note that most of the videos are slides and completely static for minutes, so it stands to reason that they compress very well). Then a student suggested I use this to compress the videos with thisįfmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1920:-1 -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 output.mp4 Unsurprisingly, files are very big but visual quality as good as it gets. I lazily started by using the default preset for H.264 ("Match Source - High bitrate). The problem is in encoding the final sequences. It still looks fairly decent and I import clips in Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and edit them. My source is probably seen as abysmal from professionals: it is a screen capture (4K) by Zoom, heavily compressed. I care a bit for video quality and a bit more for small size. I am a terrible ignoramus in the subject, but the coronavirus has thrown me in the business of producing videos with my lectures.
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