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The process of "shrinking" video via x265 encoding is a balancing act between bitrate, grain retention, and compute time. While x265 provides a theoretical 50% bitrate reduction over x264 at equivalent quality, achieving this in practice requires specific parameter tuning.

Once you are comfortable with CRF and presets, you can explore advanced parameters to gain even more control over the shrinking process. shrinking x265