Well, the main thing is what are you using to make your color adjustments. I’m going to assume Adobe. If so, you definitely don’t want to encode h264 straight from Adobe, because their h264 encoder sucks balls. You’ll want to export lagarith or some other form of lossless avi and then encode with x264.

This is the script I used for SW v2.5:

“G:\FINAL ENCODE SW\FINAL ENCODE\x264.exe” --pass 1 --bitrate 15000 --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slower --subme 10 --keyint 48 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --open-gop --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --me umh --merange 64 --deblock -1:-1 --qcomp 0.8 --stats “.stats” --output NUL “G:\SWv2.5.avi”

“G:\FINAL ENCODE SW\FINAL ENCODE\x264.exe” --pass 2 --bitrate 15000 --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slower --subme 10 --keyint 48 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --open-gop --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --me umh --merange 64 --deblock -1:-1 --qcomp 0.8 --stats “.stats” --output “T:\SWv2.5.mkv.264” “G:\SWv2.5.avi”