There have been some great improvement by the x265 devs over the last couple of years imo, bravo! The days were x265 just wasnt a good option for high quality (detail retention) 1080p encodes are long gone imo. It's official I'm switching to x265 even for 1080p blurays rips now. And x265 retained visable more detail in the more apples to apples 2pass test.
preset slow -profile main10 -level-idc 41 -bitrate 7000 -keyint 240 -min-keyint 24 -rc-lookahead 48 -no-saoīoth CRF encodes were pretty much visually lossless, but with a 30% bitrate reduction with x265 (10Mbps vs 7Mbps). preset veryslow -profile high -level 4.1 -bitrate 7000 -keyint 240 -min-keyint 24 -rc-lookahead 48 -tune film preset slow -profile main10 -level-idc 41 -crf 18 -keyint 240 -min-keyint 24 -rc-lookahead 48 -no-sao
preset slow -profile high -level 4.1 -crf 18 -keyint 240 -min-keyint 24 -rc-lookahead 48 -tune film Code: x264 crf18 settings (my usual settings for 1080p rips)
