Optimal CRF SVT-AV1-PSY for archieving home video
I have a lot of home videos, mostly shot on an iPhone, most of them are FHD 60fps or 4K 30fps. My wife and I shoot so often that the archive size is very large.
I want to compress the video to store it in about the same quality as on YouTube.
I take a file on YouTube, downloaded it, and saw that on average for FHD 60fps it has a bitrate of 6000 kb/s.
I want to encode using HandBrake-SVT-AV1-PSY with the settings Preset 2, Tune 3, film-grain=8:psy-rd=0.5:spy-rd=0.5
The problem is that I can't find the right CRF. For a bitrate of 6000 kb/s, I needed to specify CRF50. On another video, it turned out to be CRF40. Visually, 40 and 50 are the same for me. Should I bother with CRF or is it easier to set the bitrate?
P.S. And I'm shocked guys, how you encode on CRF20+, it doesn't make sense for video from a phone.