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I have a .MOV video -created with Final Cut Pro 7 - which I'm converting to .flv using FFMPEG. I'm very happy about the quality and the size of the output file, but whenever I have fade in/out transitions in the input video, I get a pixelate effect on the output file. Any advice on how to solve this, without increase too much the output file size?

FRAME_SIZE=720x576
BIT_RATE=1200k

ffmpeg -s $FRAME_SIZE -i $1 -g 250 -ar 44100 -deinterlace -b $BIT_RATE -minrate $BIT_RATE -maxrate $BIT_RATE -bufsize 10000k -qblur 0.3 $2

Where $1 and $2 are, respectively, the input and output file.

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  • Can you post what parameters you are using in ffmpeg? It sounds like a bitrate issue
    – Colum
    Jul 21, 2011 at 23:14
  • @Colum: There you go.
    – Roberto Aloi
    Jul 22, 2011 at 9:44
  • I think it is an issue with interlacing. Try removing that flag
    – Colum
    Jul 23, 2011 at 14:04
  • @Colum. That didn't help. Actually, it causes horizontal lines to be displayed on the output video.
    – Roberto Aloi
    Jul 25, 2011 at 12:29

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You should explicitly specify a video codec using -vcodec as well as quality settings.

The problem is that ffmpeg's defaults aren't very sensible when you only specify a container format for the output, often choosing a sub-standard video format by default.

If you want H.264 output, try using the presets, e.g. -vcodec libx264 -vpre max. (To see what presets are available, try ls /usr/share/ffmpeg/*.ffpreset.)

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Try converting the file using [MPEG Streamclip], MPEG Streamclip is a good free file converter. Export the project from Final Cut Pro 7 and use MPEG Streamclip to convert the file.

(http://www.squared5.com/)

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Try the -sameq option. It tells ffmpeg to use the same quality in the output as in the input. I often find that ffmpeg likes to use sub-standard video codecs.

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    no it doesn't. It tells ffmpeg to use the same Quantizer. Common mistake.
    – stib
    Dec 20, 2012 at 6:14
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    And there is no -sameq option in ffmpeg/avconvanymore.
    – anatoly techtonik
    Mar 30, 2015 at 7:14

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