That works but is the most non-standard implementation of "redo" that I've ever seen; it usually only operates on commands that you've undone.

Or you can specify "quality", which makes for less dicking around (once you find what number corresponds to what you're looking for). Depending on the type of thing you're encoding, you probably want something in the range of CRF 22 to CRF 13 or 14.

Due to spam prevention, I am not allowed to post more than one hyperlink in my answer, which is rather irritating. A page describing the downfalls of VP8 is at x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377 , and Google's help article is at google.com/support/youtube/bin/… .