Very high compression artifacts at 100% quality?

[metroidmen]

Even without FX upscaling, setting max HEVC quality to 100% the result is SUPER compressed and blocky, it is virtually unwatchable, in my opinion.

For reference, the result is 7.7gb for a 1:32 long movie.

Is this normal or expected results? Or is this a bug? I attached some images for reference.

[cbusillo]

Did you try it with a "normal" value for quality first? I've heard over 90 can result in issues. Can you provide a screenshot of the app, including the output from the encoding and all the settings?

[metroidmen]

I originally tried a value of 85 for HEVC and 50 for Upscale (As the chart recommended), but it was still really compressed. But I thought that may have been due to the lower quality so I tried the 100 HEVC quality setting.

If you mean the output like all the text that fills out in the app as it processes, I don’t have that any longer since this was done yesterday.

The screenshot shows the settings I had in place when I processed it.

[cbusillo]

What does it look like with default settings (I think its 75 and AI upscale off). It should look as good as the source. What is the source? Are you ripping for original source or a downloaded remux?

[metroidmen]

It's an identical copy of the Blu-ray Disc. I can run that but it'll take some time

[Samckatz]

That is very strange since by me default (75 HEVC 75 Upscale) results in crystal clear encodes. Also the size you mentioned seems way out of whack. Which movie are you trying to encode?

[mikemonello]

How are you changing the upscale value?

[metroidmen]

That is very strange since by me default (75 HEVC 75 Upscale) results in crystal clear encodes. Also the size you mentioned seems way out of whack. Which movie are you trying to encode?

Through The Never. The iso is about 34 gb

I just did another run with the HEVC quality at 75 and no upscaling. Crazy enough, it came out at 7.7gb as well and lots of compression.

Is it possible something is going on where it isn't actually applying the quality settings as I have them set? That is crazy that the results are the same size, despite different quality settings.

[metroidmen]

How are you changing the upscale value?

When the AI FX Upscale box is checked a second option appears under the HEVC Quality settings for the Upscale setting. I change that box

[cbusillo]

Can you try a different movie just to see if it encodes as expected?

[kalanihelekunihi]

This is an example from the movie Wreck-It Ralph, when using 100,100 (Linked) http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9724/8Vbuz5.png

99,99 (Linked) http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/8664/k6K1XN.png

75,75 (Linked) http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/5850/pARclx.png

[cbusillo]

We had one user that had something corrupted with his macOS system and that caused encoder issues. That is why I added the software encoder. Do you happen to have a second Mac you can try on? The encoder is built into macOS, and I cannot think of a bug in my software that would cause what you are experiencing when others get good encodes.

[metroidmen]

I don’t currently have another movie to try but a quick update on this is that I set it to 100,100 overnight and ran it and this time it is MUCH higher quality and the file is like 107gb.

The only difference I can think of that I did is before I started processing I chose "Save Config" at the top.

Is that supposed to be something I select each time before running?

[cbusillo]

"Save Config" only saves the GUI options to a file.

[protomota]

I am having the same problem. I tried both AI upscaling turned on and off and one at 75 (default) quality and one at 100 quality with same results with bad artifacting through the whole video. The only thing I can think of is I am running the beta of Sequoia, and I am wondering if @metroidmen is too.

[Samckatz]

What is the file size of the final .MOV file?

[elliotttate]

I also have run into this issues (and am on Sequoia Beta). Let me know if I can share any logs