My dog and I thought it was a good idea to have a common space where to share knowledge, experience, some open air dump and x264 (don't be afraid not toxic) presets

• After Squeeze much I tried, quite nice multicompressor, but I've been unable to export any thing I like. Indu voice, very expensive also

• After AME crappy using x264 display same panels as QT but doesn't allow any nitrate change in audio AAC

• After IFFmpeg can't make it work with fmy fmpeg library :-( , using in avi <--> mov round·trip

• After ffmpegx free, interface is tiny and they stopped developing it but what's important is to have libraries updated. that said it has limited acces to x264 options. it has also some nice (last minute) features like demux and multiplex, really useful

• After Quicktime which is at least as obedient as my dog: direct x.264 export, wider range of x264's settings (panels) options and can store 2 presets which is useful too

• After Mpegstreamclip free but has 2 annoying things: audio is limited to 256Kbits (not sooo dramatically disastrous) and only uses 1 core, so it's much slower… maybe I miss configured... other than that is a nice sorted out mothercompresar

• After whatnot

I decided to settle with my trusty old handbrake.
I have not created any presets myself, just slightly tweaked/mix one or two, my knowledge is very close to my dog's =0. Also I am not interested or going to show any comparisons whatsoever, allrigch?!!

A1 - retrospective

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Really great settings for grainy footage I was able to found in this forum, thanks @retrospective

A2 - doggy&me

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Pretty much retrospective's preset but instead of "constant quality" a maxrate is set to 15000, instead of "variable framerate" now is constant and instead of 1 pass now there are 2, being the first turbo-kit. This one works out nicely with grain, which was my main concern

A3 - slowganja

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This one from my drug dealer and it's real nice slow stuff, oh yeah with love

Well, that's it, care for a street picture?

im trying to make a direct h264 encoding from PremPro Timeline (GH2 files), using DebugmodeFrameserver and x264 encoder with StaxRip or MeGui frontend. When i try to open the generated (from Debugmfs) Dummyfile in one of the frontends it always says missing codec. But everything seems to be installed properly. Anyone out there having experience with this workflow and is aware of this problem? Cant find more detailled info about that with my search. Im still running CS5.5 on Win764.

Thanks to everyone. Cheers