XVideoSharing: Quality Preset
x264 codec encoding speed depends mostly on compression Preset.
Quality is about the same when we're using CRF option.
Faster presets give you good encoding speed but larger final video files, slower presets use advances compression tech so taking much time but giving smaller video files.
Here goes Qiality presets comparison table made by us so you can choose one suitable for your needs:
Preset | Time spent | Video size | Speedup | Note |
UltraFast | 9.6 | 40.9 | 6.1X | Fastest. Very bad compression. |
SuperFast | 19.2 | 25.3 | 3.1X | |
VeryFast | 34.3 | 21.4 | 1.7X | surprisingly smallest file size |
Faster | 58.9 | 22.7 | 1X | Fast & Good |
Fast | 77.8 | 23.5 | 0.75X | |
Medium | 95.3 | 23.1 | 0.62X | |
Slow | 158 | 22.6 | 0.37X | too slow, not recommended |