| Re: Two Pass Encoding Worth it With High Bitrates?
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Originally Posted by Wombler  Because it won't distribute the bits as efficiently and you could end up with fast moving scenes looking bad because they haven't been allocated a high enough bitrate while other scenes have a higher bitrate than they need.
Two pass optimises the bitrate more effectively and allocates more to where it's needed.
Wombler | Ah ok. So really, 2 pass is essential if I don't want to encode crap basically is what it sounds like. Thanks for explaining. I actually need to explain this to a buddy of mine as well, who's been trying to convince me otherwise and has slacked off with his own encodes.
I'm guessing there must be quite a pony race between the codec heavyweights looking to improve this area. Would be nice to have a single pass that did it all someday.
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