Using h265?

[kaitlyn]

I'm not experienced with codec/compression formats, but h265 seems to be replacing h265.

The one thing I recall is they you need a newer CPU to handle it, which I learned from the GoPro hero 6.

Is there any reason to shoot in h264? Does h265 give BETTER quality, or just equal quality at a baller size... Or what exactly?

 

[sar104]

I'm not experienced with codec/compression formats, but h265 seems to be replacing h265.

The one thing I recall is they you need a newer CPU to handle it, which I learned from the GoPro hero 6.

Is there any reason to shoot in h264? Does h265 give BETTER quality, or just equal quality at a baller size... Or what exactly?

For similar files sizes it gives higher quality. Or with smaller files you can get equivalent quality to H264.

 

[Jack Daw]

It's considerably more efficient. I think technically they've determined that you can get the same image quality for about 65% of the size, but in my experience you can go much smaller than that -- well below 50% of the size of h264. It does require a better CPU, but -- again, in my experience -- pretty much every chip you're going to get these days can handle it. My iphone 6, for example, can play them perfectly well.

Whether you can get better quality out of it, by using the same bitrate, I don't know. You pretty quickly reach a point of diminishing returns when it comes to bitrate. It can't get much better than h264 at 100 MBps, not without a better censor, anyway.