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WyattBlue committed Oct 21, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ auto-editor my-video.mp4 -b:v 230k
Examples:
```
auto-editor my-huge-h264-video.mp4 -b:v 10M # Maximum quality, big file size
auto-editor my-h264-video.mp4 -b:v unset # Let ffmpeg chose, efficient and good looking quality
auto-editor my-h264-video.mp4 -b:v auto # Let ffmpeg chose, efficient and good looking quality
auto-editor i-want-this-tiny.mp4 -b:v 125k # Set bitrate to 125 kilobytes, quality may vary
auto-editor my-mpeg4-video.mp4 -c:v h264 -b:v auto
```
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If you do use video bitrate, don't set it to a high number like `10M`, it will do what you say, not what you want. libx264 with faithfully target that absurd number even if the quality gain is teeny-tiny.

Recommended options:
```
auto-editor my-video.mp4 --my-ffmpeg -c:v libx264 -b:v unset --extras "-preset slow -crf 22"
```

[FFmpeg's wiki page explains the options you can use in more detail.](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264)


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Example:
```
auto-editor my-video.mp4 --my-ffmpeg -c:v hevc -b:v unset
auto-editor my-video.mp4 --my-ffmpeg -c:v hevc -b:v auto
```

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