Render in 80% or 85%

[Austin]

Honestly, I don’t know. The tricky thing with QuickSync is that Intel changes the implementation with almost every generation of processor. Later versions look much better than early versions when using identical quality settings. The only real way to know the best quality settings for your specific hardware is to run a VMAF visual quality test between the original source videos and the exported file to see if the VMAF difference is within six points. If so, the quality is basically as good as needed for a final file. See:

Measure quality of input video?

Actually, it is to choose the encoded version. The use case is primarily to compare different encode settings: open a video using a video mode that matches the source frame rate make more than one export using different options as export jobs finish choose Properties > Menu > Measure Video Quality and choose the exported file open each measurement job and look at is VMAF score, compare, and choose the best export option It works this because I wanted to use it this way for my day job. It doe…