I do love that since YouTube re-compressed everything you should basically upload in your editing format, since they don’t have upload limits like Vimeo. It is pretty funny that Adobe Media Encoder’s YouTube settings are H.264, but I guess it saves your bandwidth.
So the H.266 video compression standard has been announced, and just like H.265 it again cuts the data rate by half while keeping the same quality, which is very impressive.
And this will be great for video streaming and camera compression and the like, but once again it is going to be very processor intensive, and from what I have seen not many people are even using H.265 because it is so processor intensive both on compression side and playback side, and H.266 will be so much more processor intensive.
Better compression for video is always a good thing, but it will be a while before anyone sees any benefits from this.
Studio Daily reported the news from NAB.
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They will have various versions:
•ProRES 422 including LT and HQ in 1080p 30FPS for $68 with Single Core Encoding
•ProRES 4444, UHD, 4K and H.265 (v2) at up to 60FPS for $137 with Dual Core Encoding
•H.265 SQ and HQ and up to 6 Core Encoding for $551
ProRES is so ubiquitous that this is great news.
EOSHD has an article on the new h.265 Codec which is ProRes 4444 Quality at 1% of the File size. Of course i doesn’t talk about the computer power that is going to be needed. And that is going to need some power. Serious GPU power I am thinking.
Still you can try it right now with Cinemartin’s compressor, but it is not cheap! And the compressor is made for Windows 7, and I have no idea what will actually play it back right now, but the compressor also does ProRes. Would love to give it a try, but it is way too expensive to play with right now.
Maximum PC is reporting that H.265 has been given the ITU approval. This codec will cut bandwidth requirements in half for video streaming,t hough will also require much more power to uncompress. This will be great for portable devices as well as 4K, as you can have the same quality as H.264 in half the size.
Sorenson Media has an interesting article on the upcoming video compression standard H.265. It is supposed to double the efficiency of H.264, though with likely a higher processor hit. And that means half the size for the same quality, which is huge especially for bandwidth caps and the like. Of course it might also mean new Apple TV’s and ROKU’s to take advantage, as well as new iPhone’s and iPad’s too. The processor hit I am sure is enormous.
Still can’t wait to see that new quality.