Definitley appreciate that you encode it for me, if you didn´t started yet crf 20 is fine, no need for crf 18.
CMMP, I have a 4K encode almost finished going at crf20. Also I realized that Staxrip (the program I’m using to encode) does not automatically apply a de-banding filter to smooth out unnatural gradients (different than deblocking)-- Handbrake, a different program but without true 10 bit end to end, seems to always have de-banding on by default. So in addition to the better crf of 20 now there is proper de-banding, and the picture is noticeably better (perhaps even close to perceptually lossless in most scenes now). Final filesize is estimated at just over 12GB and should be ready later today.
Thanks for letting me know. Handbrake is no stranger to me, but didn´t know that either. But haven´t used it since i realized that it only has the 8-bit pipeline.
Didn´t expect it to have just 12 GB but nice 😃