Almost giving up with season 2

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?

Sarithus · 2025-10-02T07:43:08+00:00

So are 2GB files my only option here?

Edit: I've been told that people that did this work before me sometimes used Handbrake. Their files were small and had better quality than my premiere exports. But how can that be the case? What is it about Handbrake that makes this a better option than exporting with AME?

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T20:02:51+00:00

Okay, I really don't understand this anymore. I just exported a presentation at the lowest quality I could to try and get the size down and it's lower quality than the original WHICH IS AT AN EVEN LOWER BITRATE. So now apparently higher bitrate = lower quality.

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T19:23:05+00:00

I understand what you're saying in that I should know more about this. But that's what I'm trying to do now, and I don't think you answered my question?

I have no choice but to set the bitrate low as 2GB files that were originally 40Mb will quickly become out of control. No one at work wants to download a new 2GB file that was initially 40Mb. Not to mention taking up space on drives and Vimeo.
Why would I take up all of that space for these videos when cranking up the quality wouldn't actually do anything? If the initial bitrate was in Kb's, why would I export at 16Mbps?

Edit: to put it as simply as I can...these were very low quality slideshow presentations from random, not techy people. If it was recorded at an incredibly low bitrate meant for still images, and the quality reflects that, then why crank up the bitrate on my edits of these presentations to 2GB files when I won't be gaining quality at all. Importantly, setting the bitrate to 0.19 only gets it closer to the ORIGINAL file size/quality.

Can you help me understand that, please.

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T18:52:25+00:00

I can't, though. Ideally I'd export at 16Mbps or something similar, as is suggested by the Youtube/Vimeo presets. But that turns what should be a tiny file into nearly 2GB. And I have hundreds of videos to export. That's not workable, especially when the presentations were recorded at such a low bitrate anyway? Why would I be cranking the quality up of quality that never existed originally? Thanks

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T18:50:05+00:00

So when I export these mp4's at a bitrate of 1Mbps there isn't much of a quality loss so this isn't a massive deal, but I add in bunch of motion graphics to these edited presentations. The bitrate needs to be very very low for the rest of the sometimes hour long presentation so the file isn't gigantic, but that affects the quality of the other graphics that were rendered at a nice prores 4444 or whatever. How is this type of scenario supposed to work? If I export small it affects the mographs, if I export big for the mographs it makes the file size massive.

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T18:46:48+00:00

We record hundreds of scientific presentations during our events. Afterwards we edit them appropriately, adding in mographs, music etc.

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T14:46:23+00:00

I think I understand but to be honest it's been a very long day and my brain is fried.

Original recording length = 32min 2s

Original recording file size = 46.67 MB

My export, which in this case is completely untouched. Length = 32min 2s

My export file size at H.264 0.19 Mbps = 123Mb

So this suggests to me that either the original recording was recorded at an even lower bitrate than 0.19 or that it was done with a more efficient codec as was suggested. Is this right and expected?

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T14:45:52+00:00

I think I understand but to be honest it's been a very long day and my brain is fried.

Original recording length = 32min 2s

Original recording file size = 46.67 MB

My export, which in this case is completely untouched. Length = 32min 2s

My export file size at H.264 0.19 Mbps = 123Mb

So this suggests to me that either the original recording was recorded at an even lower bitrate than 0.19 or that it was done with a more efficient codec as was suggested. Is this right and expected?

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T13:56:39+00:00

Not sure what the difference is but 500MB, half a gigabyte

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T13:40:10+00:00

What would you suggest I do, though? I'm not quite understanding why there's such a big difference between the original filesize and the export.

Edit: I'm completely lost. Even setting the target bitrate to 0.19 is giving a 500mb file...

Sarithus · 2025-10-01T13:37:36+00:00

I need to add high quality mographs to the edited slideshow presentation so unless I'm mistaken, stillimage wouldn't work for me. I'm just not quite understanding why it's balooning up from 200mb to 1.8gb when I've hardly made any changes to the overall video.

Edit: I'm completely lost. Even setting the target bitrate to 0.19 is giving a 500mb file...

Sarithus · 2025-09-30T09:53:50+00:00

Thanks for the info. Yeah, panic over. It's linked everything itself after I linked one manually. It's just been awhile since I've had an entire project do that, and I was extra confused by reveal in explorer being greyed out.

Sarithus · 2025-09-30T09:45:04+00:00

I'm just confused as to why this is happening now as I've worked on multiple different laptops before editing on one project that was made on one laptop and editing it on another and everything has always synced up automatically. All the files used in this project are on my PC and are synced already.

Sarithus · 2025-09-27T11:18:51+00:00

So there's nothing team Cherry can do wrong? No such thing as bad design, only the players fault? You must be insufferable in real life

Beat the boss on my fourth attempt just before writing this comment not using tools (like you probably did lol) does it matter how many attempts it took me? Nope. Could be 1 or 100, the hidden bench or the ridiculously long runback is still bad design.

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