H.264 vs H.265 comparison (4K)

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00:00 1Mbps
00:30 3Mbps
00:57 4,5Mbps
01:24 5Mbps
01:52 6Mbps

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H.264 - VerySlow (High profile)
H.265 - Medium (Main profile)
- 2-pass encoding

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At lower bitrates H.265 is faster - H.264 is slower + lower quality (pixelated edge, detail loss)
At higher bitrates H.264 is faster - H.265 is slower but better quality

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[VickersDoorter]

This is without doubt THE best non-technical explanation of the difference between the two.

[Simson]

Nice editing.
The amount of work gone into this video deserves more views.

[kennyphan]

best comparison video I've ever seen, thank you so much.

[furulevi]

H.264 requires around 2 times more bitrate to have the same quality of H.265.
If you have a H.264 video compressed at 100 megabit, in H.265 it requires only around 50 megabit.

[blueduckflight]

Great video. A simple solution to a problem I didn't realize I had.

[mediocreape]

great comparison, i remember trying to look for a comparison like this a few monts ago and i didn't come by your video then. glad i found it today though.

[cristianolvera]

Great video! I'm gonna start encoding my videos on H.265 from now on.

[KoploperMau]

I'm legit surprised how much quality H264 can push out of 1mpbs. The cat at the start looks fuzzy, but realizing its a 4k frame (3840x2160) that quality is damn impressive - even more so for the H265 video. At 1mbps you can even make out quite a lot of details. It proofs that many people, myself included, render videos at a way too high bitrate. I used to render at 50mbps for x264, I might drop back to 30mbps on that and even lower if I can do H265. It looks amazing and at 6mbps at H265 at 60fps you can't even see the difference with the original I guess.

I am impressed, really impressed.

[jamerson]

you understood the mission good sir, great video!

[compuglobalhypermeganet]

Thanks a lot for this sample, since i switch from PC to Notebook, i found now a solution for make 4k renderable in aceptable processing time.

[shaikhshafeen]

Appreciate your video.
But would have been better for me if there were comparisons for higher bitrates.

[isgojox]

I've been concerned about block noise so far, but was this the cause? I'll try exporting with H.265 from now on.

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[flirtationdance]

Wow it's amazing. I did hear about h265 being highly efficient but I didn't know it was efficient enough to run 4K/HD at 1mbps. I'm actually used to editing MPEG-2 video so it's a weird perspective for me. I also render videos in h265 but I usually do it over 28mbps/50mbps for high refresh rate video. Guess I can start optimizing

[TekyTimbo]

Thx a lot for this video! Was this rendered and uploaded to YouTube or is this a demo of H.265 vs H.264 Livestreaming via YouTube?

[TheFlyingDutchManK]

bedankt nick ! ik ga dit proberen beetje moe van blurry parts in mijn video's !

[tedbragg]

Holy Low-Bitrate Clarity, Batman! That 1Mbps looks freakin amazing!!

[kajekage]

Hi all. I'm confused about codecs. I want to upload video I've used my phone to record at 4k60fps with the H.264 codec. Phone video is variable frame rate which means I have to convert it to a constant frame rate. My editor gives me good, better, best options which are H.264, DNxHR, and UT Video respectively. DNxHR and UT Video are insanely huge but uncompressed. I'm wondering if there would be any difference in quality though going from H.264 to H.264? Then when it is time what should I export to? If I understand correctly Youtube is going to use VP9 but does my export codec have any impact on end product on YouTube? How do I balance this out because a 30 minute video with one of the larger codecs is roughly 500gb which with a 50mbps upload(fastest I can get) it will take almost a day.

So short version is, when converting a 4k60fps H.264 video from VFR to CFR does using H.264 cause more loss or do I need a better codec? Whatever codec I used for conversion, what should I use to determine export codec after editing if my intent is 4k60fps uploading to YouTube that will use VT9?

[snowball]

so is it better to upload in h265 ? will it be better if i upload at the same bitrate as h264 ? e.g 80mbps

[nichtfurdich]

Whats of better quality: a 35gb h265 or a 80gb h264 blu ray rip?