Written by What is HEVC/H.265?
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard, one of several potential successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10). In comparison to AVC, HEVC offers about double the data compression ratio at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate. It supports resolutions up to 8192×4320, including 8K UHD.
What does HEVC mean for 4K videos?
With an increasing growth of video streaming on the Internet over popular websites such as Netflix and YouTube, and with 4K cameras gaining new ground in the market, a considerable amount of storage and bandwidth is required. HEVC promises a 50% storage reduction as its algorithm uses efficient coding by encoding video at the lowest possible bit rate while maintaining a high image quality level.
How to encode or decode 4K HEVC videos at super fast speed?
Do you want to encode your 4K AVCHD captured by Panasonic/Sony/Canon, 4K MP4/MOV shot by DJI Mavic Air/Phantom, 4K videos downloaded from Youtube, and other to 4K HEVC for saving storage space and bandwidth? Or, do you want to decode 4K HEVC to a compatible format to fix playback issue? The following hardware-accelerated 4K HEVC transcoder can process 4K HEVC encoding and decoding quickly without hassle.
Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate | for Mac supports for H.265/HEVC encoding acceleration. As long as your PC are running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, the H.265/HEVC encoding speed of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can be accelerated about 30X faster than before.
Main Features You Should Know
– Encode Blu-ray disc, BDMV folder and ISO image to H.265 MP4 for 4K TV viewing.
– Encode DVD Disc, Video_TS folder, IFO and ISO image file to H.265 MP4/MKV for enjoy on smartphone or tablets smoothly with perfect quality.
– Convert common video to H.265 for streaming with Wowza engine.
– Adjust output profile settings such as video codec, bit rate, resolution, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels, etc to get better output quality of H.265/HEVC video.
– Decode H.265 to H.264 or other popular file formats or devices and program preset profile formats.
– Fast H.264 codec encoding speed with a PC that running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card or an AMD graphics card with AMD APP technology
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Step by step to encode video/BD/DVD to H.265/HEVC with fastest Nvidia encoder
Step 1: Import video or load Blu-ray/DVD disc into the program.
Start the program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" to import digital file formats into the program, for load Blu-ray or DVD disc, insert your DVD disc into your computer’s optical drive and your Blu-ray disc into an external Blu-ray drive, click "File" > "Load from Disc" to load Blu-ray/DVD disc into the program.
Step 2: Enable GPU Encode Acceleration.
Click "Tools" > "Options", in the opened "Options" window, click "Acceleration" menu, then check "Enable GPU Encode Acceleration" otpion so that the program will accelerate converion speed when encoding video/Blu-ray/DVD to H.265/HEVC codec.
Step 3: Output H.265 MP4 or MKV format.
Click "Format" drop-down bar, scroll down to select "Common Video" > "H.265 Video(*.MP4)" as the output file format.
For outputting H.265 MKV format, select "HD Video" > "MKV HD Video(*.mp4)" to output, then hit "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, under Video settings panel, click "Codec" drop-down selection, choose "H.265" as your final output file codec.
Step 4. Adjust output file parameters (Optional)
You are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters if you are not satisfied with the default settings. Presets like size, bitrate, frame rate, audio channels, etc. can be customized in your own way.
Step 5: Begin the H.265/HECV codec encoding process.
After all settings is completed, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the conversion from video/Blu-ray/DVD to H.265/HEVC encoding process.
When the conversion is completed, you will get a perfect quality H.265/HEVC file with smaller file size for smoothly viewing and streaming on different devices.
Quick guide to decode HEVC/H.265 to H.264 on Mac
Step 1: Load HEVC/H.265 video files
Drag your files into this H.265 HEVC Video Converter, with ‘Add video’ you can load them with individual clips, or with ‘Add from folder’ you can import them with a complete folder. Batch conversion is also available.
Step 2. Decode your H.265/HEVC footage
To transcode H.265 video to H.264, you can choose HD H.264 MP4 video or any other video formats and other audio formats.
Edit H.265 HEVC video files – Optional
There are still some popular functional items we can take around on the main interface, for example, in the ‘Edit’ button, we have offered you the ‘Trim’ to decide the video length, ‘Crop’ to remove the unwanted edges, ‘Subtitles’ to add some extra explanations? More you can have a try here.
Step 3: Start converting H.265/HEVC video files to H.264/AVC MP4
Now hit on the "Convert" button on software main interface to start the conversion. Ok now you can watch the H.264 MP4 video on your computer using media player, or transfer to portable devices for free viewing.