Why AV1 Encoding 4K Is Changing Gameplay Video Preservation
When I sat down to capture a no damage run of The Last of Us Part II Remastered on Grounded difficulty, I knew the footage would be punishing in more ways than one. The game's post-apocalyptic Seattle is dense with detail: wet cobblestones reflecting neon signs, the subtle grain of Ellie's jacket, the way HDR highlights bloom on a Molotov explosion. To preserve that 4K HDR image without halving my hard drive, I had to make a choice about the codec. That choice was AV1. For