Hi. New to SVP. Looking for general opinions from others about this configuration. Open to ANY suggestions. Video quality is more important than transcode time and file size but naturally less time and reduced file size would be welcomed without compromising visual quality.
Goal is high bit rate to enhance motion via interpolated extra frames. Most of my original files & Topaz outputs are in the 60 bit rate range. I'd like to retain near that after transcoding with SVP.
RTX 5090, i9-14900k & 64GB RAM.
TensorRT
4 GPU threads
4.25 (4.25 heavy FAILS)
H.265/HEVC/NVENC
opts:
b=60000000 (I assume this is another buffer setting) Yes/No?
preset=slow
rc=cbr_hq (using cbr instead of vbr to increase overall bit rate)
level=5.1 (will use 6.1 for 8k)
tier=high (helps honor minrate but falls below although higher than without. Also prevents FAILS using all of these settings)
qmin=15
cq=15
maxrate=63000000
minrate=58000000
bufsize=60000000
color_primaries=bt2020
color_trc=smpte2084
colorspace=bt2020nc
Questions:
(1) I'm transcoding UHD 23.976 fps to 60 fps aka 59.94x. Is it best to select x2.5 instead of 60fps?
(2) Using MediaInfo & other OSD's, all of my untouched & touched videos show video properties like HDR nits, Formats, Writing library, Mastering display info's, Light levels, etc. After transcoding using SVP, none of this info is present anymore. How can I force SVP to retain it? I have seen SVP outputs by others that indeed retain them. No idea how it was done.
Thanks for any suggestions re: my setup and/or questions.