Best export settings for minimal quality loss with NVENC

I use some special settings to bump up the quality.

Please tryout these settings, if you are on a Turing-GFX:

4 B-Frames

3 REF

B-Ref Middle

64 lookahead

AQ temp & spacial

Try these on Pascal:

Slow

3 B-Frames

32 lookahead

AQ temp & spacial

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You have a really dark video and modern compression via H.264/265 tends to sacrifice data in low lit parts of the image. I've not experienced in compressing game footage (I'm professionally working with realworld camera footage and animated graphics). Maybe NVENC is bad for this type of footage. Have you tried using normal CPU x264 with Voukoder or outside Premiere Pro with Handbrake and 'slower' settings?

I know, if you take time to compress a video, it will get better or smaller, depending on your preference. NVENC has a more restricted type of functions and x264 (CPU encoding) can use much more functions to compress the videofiles.

I think NVENC is not designed for this use at first, so it would be better to use other encoders?

i use this setting on voukoder 7.1 and exoprt mp4 but when play movi after forward or backward video, video play some delay !

anyone can help me for best setting for export " HEVC nvidia NVENC " format for good Quality?

i render most video via premiere12(2018) FullHD 29.97 Frame MP4 Foramt

javad490 you can try to decrease the Max GOP Size, say, to match your FPS value, in order to improve your seek performance. Keep in mind though that this will increase your file size.

It's probably better to use VBR instead of CBR. I usually use CQP18 as I prefer to target quality rather than file size.

AFAIK, GTX 1050 does not support b-frames for HEVC encoding, so you might want to stick to AVC with 3 b-frames instead.

Your RC Lookahead is too high.

Personally, I wouldn't use b-frames as references, especially for CQP encodes.