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Originally Posted by Coma
Hardly. The only people who say this are the people who DON'T do "a good flow of H.264 transcoding/encoding."
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That must be me, I decided to give up on H.264 for my home movies. My camera takes 1440x1080i, and I just got a Blu-Ray burner, so off I went. I tried H.264 first because I could fit three hours of video onto a disc; and BD-R is still an expensive media, so what the heck, right? It rendered for something like 16 hours and then crashed the PC (not as stable at 3.8GHz as I thought!
) But I can transcode two hours of edited movie into a Blu-Ray disc image (MPEG-2 1920x1080i, 2-pass VBR, target 25Mbps bit rate) in short order...I haven't timed it, but I know I've clicked the button and returned in less than two hours to find it done. Honestly, my MPEG-2 renders look just dandy on my PS3, so dealing with the render time of H.264 (and the apparent need to lower my overclock a bit) is just not worth it to me.
If there is a better workflow that would make sense to a non-professional, I'd love to hear it. I would certainly use H.264 is it weren't such a hassle; and if the hassle is my own creation, I'll fix it.
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