Andrew Kolakowski wrote:When you use profile then don't use qscale as they have impact on the same thing which is quantisation scale.
Use just profile:v and ProRes will be bigger as it should.
Also your DNxHR is for HQ quality not SQ. Change to -profile:v dnxhr_sq and tighter with fixed ProRes command you will get files with similar size. Just remember that DNxHR SQ is 8bit.
So all this time i have been downgrading the quality on my prores encodes by using the qscale. Which is why my renders to prores is smaller. that makes since. To be honest i visually cant tell the difference. Do you think qscale will work on DNxHR SQ? im going to give it a try. if it yields me similar results as it does with Prores i will be happy.
Also i just realized that i had dnxhr_hq instead of sq
... But the files are still 4x bigger with DNxHR SQ. Thanks for the help, i think i understand where i went wrong now.