ffmpuzzle
Puzzle #49 · Hard · 6 params

H.264 · Bitrate 20M · 1080p · AAC · MP4

The scenario

Concert live recording multi-cam master for a Vevo release. H.264 at high bitrate 20 Mbps for post-production flexibility, 59.94fps for NTSC broadcast-safe delivery, AAC at 320 kbps for music quality, MP4 for YouTube/Vevo ingest.

The answer

Video CodecH.264
Bitrate20M
Resolution1080p
AudioAAC
ContainerMP4
Framerate59.94

The command

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 20M -r 59.94 -c:a aac -b:a 320k -movflags +faststart output.mp4

Why

Vevo processes over 25 billion video views per month and requires H.264 Baseline/Main/High profile submissions. They re-encode everything server-side, but higher input quality (20+ Mbps) gives their encoder more data to work with.

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