csl said:
Jan said:
DoomBot said:
Harmy said:
Actually, I'm definitely doing the BD now but it will come out later than the AVCHD and MKV, because it will need some work to make a BD release worthwhile.
Is the AVCHD and MKV going to be the same bitrate and quality as the BD?
Well that's surely possible. What you, Harmy, could do is to encode the video stream using settings for BD compliancy. You can also take this video stream and mux it straight into mkv. You'll only need to make two encodes then, one for BD and mkv and the second one for AVCHD (both 2pass ideally).
CRF is more ideal than 2pass ;)
Why would it be? As I said a few pages back, CRF will give the same quality than 2pass when the encodes are at the same bitrate. This is also confirmed by x264 developers.
Now in the case of bluray you have a optical disc with limited capacity, hence you should use 2pass because you'll now the final bitrate before doing the encode. If you use CRF you don't know that and hence you might either waste (a lot of) disc space, or your file won't fit on the disc.
It's maybe not that much of a problem when you're using 720p and aiming for BD25, as you'll have plenty of space then, but for AVCHD it surely is.