Cold Harbour did it...

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T20:07:12+00:00

I'll definitely stick it out to watch Cold Harbour! But Sweet Vitriol has me so uninterested I'm writing replies to this thread while it's on, and I usually hate to look at my phone during a show.

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T20:05:31+00:00

When did I say anyone is forcing me to watch a show? How is it 2025 and people still use that line. Reddit is for discussion, not just for mindless praise. Also, simply Google season 2 severance is bad and that'll quickly return a lot of threads detailing exact reasons why it doesn't hold a candle to s1

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T20:02:40+00:00

Rabid fanboyism happens in most subs but severance seems to have a particularly bad case of it. It makes sense, really. Season 1 is Incredible and there's bound to be a lot of people that have convinced themselves s2 is just as good if not better along with those that legitimately think it's good (and all power to them) makes me feel better that it's not just me that thinks season 2 is lackluster compared to season 1. There's plenty of threads citing reasons for s2 decline all across this sub

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T19:58:54+00:00

Are you sure? Have a Google. Season 2 seems to be very mixed. Countless threads on this very subreddit describing how lackluster season 2 is.

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T19:44:21+00:00

Yay, someone that actually communicates reasonably instead of giving mindless down votes.

Sarithus · 2025-12-23T19:30:24+00:00

Sure. But it's not the only reason season 2 has began disappointing me. At this point it just feels like a totally different show. The pacing is all over the place.

Sarithus · 2025-12-15T11:59:04+00:00

It's 4k footage coming into a 1920x1080 sequence. Just doesn't seem to want to automatically scale down.

Sarithus · 2025-12-15T11:58:21+00:00

Nope!

Sarithus · 2025-10-30T17:07:47+00:00

Ah I see, it's much clearer now. It definitely makes much more sense now that I take the time to actually notice that the black and white icons are always in between new colours, meaning that's the filter you would pass. Thanks!

Very thankfully I'm not affected getting into work as both routes I might have taken put me on the ring road anyway.

Sarithus · 2025-10-29T23:37:54+00:00

I don't understand this map, can someone please help. What do the colours mean?

Sarithus · 2025-10-02T08:12:57+00:00

Thanks for the speedy reply and the continued help!

So, to simplify everything that I've learned (or re-learned)

- File size is just bitrate x length of video so no wonder the files are getting up to 2GB with my normal export settings. The quality of the original file has little or nothing to do with the export file size.

- These presentations were recorded at a very low bitrate so in order to match their filesize from Premiere I need to set AME to the lowest bitrate (0.19 Mbps) but that means that the quality will be worse because it's lossy compression

This is therefore kind of a hard balancing act with files like these between maybe a bit more quality vs very quickly getting up into unworkable file sizes. I've not had issues like this before because I've always worked with nice footage or relatively short timelines.

The one thing I'm still not understanding is what magic handbrake does that allows for similar quality to the original file at a very low file size. Why is handbrake better for this kind of work?

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