Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

Changing from Medium to Slower did produce a meaningful quality increase of 6 percent, but came at a cost of extending encoding times by a factor of seven. If you’re already operating at full capacity ...

The iPhone 8 shoots H.265 4K video, and macOS High Sierra can view it, but editors who rely on Final Cut Pro X cannot yet utilize the codec until Apple issues a highly anticipated update. H.265 video, ...

When I got the footage to the editing bay, that is where it got challenging. I normally edit in Adobe Premiere Pro, but it wouldn't load the H.265 files. It brought them in as audio only. I tried a ...