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I started down the rabbit hole today because our family video collection is over 6 terabytes on my NAS too big, and have been thinking of recording with HEVC instead H264 for about 2 years now, to save more space on my Galaxy phone and NAS.
What has mainly prevented me from recording in HEVC are all the scary stories (or exaggerations?) online of people talking trash about HEVC quality, so I use AVC MPEG4 h264 on my Samsung phone still and often have to Transcode them on pc because bitrate is ridiculous sometimes!
Although i do think these HEVC trash talkers are speaking more about HEVC picture quality (like that its worse that h264) as a result of Encoding/Transcoding the videos with a GPU
and not so much debating HEVC vs h264 picture quality in regards to actually capturing the video/recording the video. But I don't know, don't care too much too ask
Below are also some images, one Mediainfo screen showing i can in fact shoot 4k h264, proving that there couldn't be 2048x2048 max with h264.
So here are my questions i need your help answering:
What has mainly prevented me from recording in HEVC are all the scary stories (or exaggerations?) online of people talking trash about HEVC quality, so I use AVC MPEG4 h264 on my Samsung phone still and often have to Transcode them on pc because bitrate is ridiculous sometimes!
Although i do think these HEVC trash talkers are speaking more about HEVC picture quality (like that its worse that h264) as a result of Encoding/Transcoding the videos with a GPU
and not so much debating HEVC vs h264 picture quality in regards to actually capturing the video/recording the video. But I don't know, don't care too much too ask
Below are also some images, one Mediainfo screen showing i can in fact shoot 4k h264, proving that there couldn't be 2048x2048 max with h264.
So here are my questions i need your help answering:
- Why do many sources online state that "H.264 standard only recognizes resolutions up to 2048x2048"? Is that outdated info or something? (examples below in images)
- Generally as of late, have most professional photographers switched to recording and using HEVC? If not, are pro photographers converting their h264 to HEVC after shooting?
- Will the space savings be worth it if I switch to recording in HEVC? And should I turn on HDR10+ Recording too? see image
- When people say HEVC has bad picture quality vs H264, are they only referring to actually Encoding/Transcoding and HEVC? (Like speedy NVENC encoding for saving time) Or are these naysayers likely also saying that recording vids w/HEVC AND ALSO Encoding with it, is generally less desirable than H264 too? Like HEVC is just bad overall..
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