aom-av1-lavish VS HandBrake

Yeah you are right, I was looking at the wrong branch in git(the one with the latest commit is https://github.com/Clybius/aom-av1-lavish/tree/Endless_Merging).

Various tunes have been added: https://github.com/Clybius/aom-av1-lavish/wiki/Tune-Comparison

git clone https://github.com/Clybius/aom-av1-lavish

The aom-av1-lavish fork can address this as well with the proper settings

I had never heard of aom-av1-lavish before, so I looked it up:

If you want to explore potentially better photon noise, you can compile lav1sh's fork of aomenc and you'll end up with photon_noise_table.exe (in the 'examples' folder) which supports chroma blending when generating tables and can potentially match your source better. You can follow this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/s6eh5f/how_to_compile_av1_in_windows_without_crying/ but use "git clone https://github.com/Clybius/aom-av1-lavish/" or we have a compiled photon_noise_table.exe in the #community-builds channel in the discord.

As of November 9th 2022, rav1e for quality consistency, and aom-av1-psy for maximum fidelity in heavy grain scenes and low end performance: https://github.com/Clybius/aom-av1-lavish

A good encoder will look deeper to improve, and deeper, a bit more deeper, DEEPER

https://handbrake.fr/ its very easy to use.

nothing actually, i just mentioned it as an encoding frontend.

At this point, use https://handbrake.fr/ to transcode into a higher res MP4 and use as proxy footage,

Maybe you could try HandBrake.

The release itself[0] would have been a better link.

0. https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases/tag/1.7.0