Archival master for a wedding videography studio. H.264 for universal playback, CRF 18 for near-lossless quality that clients can re-edit years later, slow preset for maximum compression efficiency on overnight batch encodes.
| Video Codec | H.264 |
| CRF | 18 |
| Resolution | 1080p |
| Audio | AAC |
| Container | MP4 |
| Preset | slow |
ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -c:a aac -b:a 192k -movflags +faststart output.mp4CRF 18 is often called "visually lossless" for H.264. Below CRF 17, file sizes balloon with no perceptible quality gain. The slow preset adds ~40% encode time vs medium but saves ~5-10% bitrate at the same quality.
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