Topic: OVCOPTS - Selective Removal (Vital Encoding Question)

In Advanced Encoder, I kept only "preset=slow" and "rc=vbr_hq" -- am I to understand that now the bitrate will be variable (lossless or near-lossless), with no restrictions or caps, as "maxrate" was removed?

Is this the best way to go to keep/maintain a variable Mbs rate without losing any actual bitrate itself?

That is, after all, my goal -- to preserve as much as possible the same Mbs bitrate in the final product.

Is there a better way to do that, or have I found it?

Any feedback on this would be much appreciated.

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Re: OVCOPTS - Selective Removal (Vital Encoding Question)

Video encoding (h.264 and h.265) is always gives losses at usual file sizes.
These codecs are compress spatial data and movements data.
Some people tell the bitrate for 60 fps video must be twice more than for 24 fps video.
But I think spatial data still the same but movements data after success smoothing became more compressable because of shorter motion vectors.
So, you can get the same quality with bitrate from 0.5x to 2x of source bitrate. You need to decide it for your video by your own.

Convert short fragment from your video and compare it with source.

I use automatic preset: crf 20 for films to get more compression, crf 18 for videos if I want to get quality close to original.

Re: OVCOPTS - Selective Removal (Vital Encoding Question)

Hey, thank you for the feedback. I'll do some testing. Much appreciated.