H.266 Codec Released

[Katrikura]

Hi. I personally use h265 when I want to store large videos, I think h266 would be even better, for this purpose, if it does what it promises.

[zerocool22]

1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

H266 offers some nice advantages, and has broad industry support with major companies backing it. 
We want see H266 used by many immediately overnight, or even within the next couple of years, but it likely will happen. I already watch quite a decent chunk of what I download in H265

  

Does H266 use middle out compression?

https://youtu.be/uFYy3oEnzVg

 

Are these silicon valley quotes? Edit: Ah sorry didnt click on the link 🙂

[IronFilm]

3 hours ago, kye said:

I'd imagine that really high end productions wouldn't be like this

Many many big budget productions are recording directly to ProRes

[kye]

13 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Many many big budget productions are recording directly to ProRes

For the high-end ones, are they recording to Prores HQ?  or 4444?  or XQ?

As a side-note, this table is very handy: https://blog.frame.io/2017/02/13/50-intermediate-codecs-compared/

[IronFilm]

8 hours ago, kye said:

For the high-end ones, are they recording to Prores HQ?  or 4444?  or XQ?

I don't have a broad enough overview of the industry to say which specific flavor would be most common (444? XQ?). Ask a DIT instead, or a 1st AC etc.

And it also depends on what you mean by "high-end". (for instance I did the sound for a small series which was "merely" less than half a million dollars for their production budget, and they shoot in only ProRes 442, yes 422 not HQ, due to budget/space concerns)

They might even pick and choose codecs depending on the scene. For instance do the bulk in ProRes HQ, but then switch to a higher codec for a scene which will have substantial VFX work.