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I'm about to produce my first USB stick delivery instead of dvd. Is H265 now universal for pc players and smart tvs or should I stick to H264?
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I would stick to H.264 unless you are absolutely certain your client will be able to play H.265
My big 4K smart tv does not play 265.
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Thanks, it's going out to dance school pupils. so any number of different players. I'll stick with H264.
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i'd leave CABAC off in h.264 encode settings or your TV's processor may not be able to playback fast enough.
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Where would I find the CABAC option in Premiere?
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Don't think you can.
Keep bitrate no higher than 30, and it will be ok in most cases.
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The sticks the duplication firm uses are only rated at 19.5 for read so I will go for HD at 15.
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you'd have to use another encoder. adobe leaves cabac on by default. if you have a newer TV, it might be fast enough to decode cabac.
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Apple's Compressor turns on CABAC entropy mode for multi-pass encoding. Perhaps Pr does the same? CABAC is also only available in the Main or High profiles; Baseline is CAVLC only.
Further, hardware encoding often has very limited options; software encoding is the correct choice when you need to start specifying profiles, levels and entropy modes.
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I tested my theory.
These settings:
 resulted in this MediaInfo report:
NB: It wasn't until I selected the Baseline profile that CABAC was turned off. Hardware/software encoding, VBR/CBR, 1-pass or 2-pass, none of those made any difference.