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April 9, 2025
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Please make it so Hardware encoding is supported for CBR and 2-pass VBR encoding (Apple Silicon).

  • April 9, 2025
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It seems that whenever I switch to CBR or VBR 2-pass, the Hardware Encoding capability dissapears in the Export settings on Apple silicon (M2 Max). If these codecs already have hardware support, why does this dissapear for these settings? Would be great to use the full power of Apple's chips. Thank-you.

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MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2025

That's up to the hardware people, 2 pass as you know is not supported by nvidia/mac/amd etc. Ask them. 🙂

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 9, 2025

Can they do hardware on 2-pass encodes? I know no PC can. There isn't any 2-pass hardware H.264 on any non-Mac hardware. Not possible.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...