I saw somewhere that it’s possible to export the video to AV1 on Windows machines, however I don’t this option on my macOS.
Is this something that I need enable somehow?
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Hello,
Unfortunately AV1 encoding is currently only available on Windows systems running Video AI.
Once Apple adds support for AV1 encoding to an M-series chip, we’ll be able to enable the codec for macOS. It seems like it won’t be a long wait since they just announced AV1 decoding in the M3 series.
Hi,
Any reason why this is restricted only to the new M3 chips? I have a M2 computer and I convert videos to AV1 using the libsvtav1 codec that comes with FFmpeg and I achieve excellent performances.
Maybe the Topaz software is using libaom-av1 or librav1e codecs to encode the AV1 videos; in that case I would understand the need for a M3 chip. But I don’t see a reason to remove the AV1 option all together since we can use libsvtav1, which, like I said, has excellent performance when encoding AV1 videos.
Can you please ask the team to include AV1 with libsvtav1 to all Mac versions?
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I would also very much like the option of AV1 encoding. I’m doing it as an extra step with HandBrake on MacStudio M2 Ultra. It’s fast and works great. It would just be nice to eliminate a step and a second encode. Please enable for all MacOS systems.
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AV1 can be done on macOS using the TVAI CLI since the Topaz build of ffmpeg does use libaom-av1. I tried it by changing the export command and it worked - very slowly though. But I didn’t set any AV1 options so perhaps that was the reason. Unfortunately though, the TVAI ffmpeg doesn’t use libsvtav1. I can’t think why, given it’s available in the macOS version of HandBrake. Perhaps Topaz can offer a more detailed reason why they don’t offer AV1 within the UI on Mac?
Andy
