What do you use for your final encode?

[BadgerKing]

I'm curious if people still follow the guide and use TMPGEnc and/or zarx264gui, or if they're using another program. Also, for convention submissions, do you still submit it as an MPEG-2? It seems that some conventions are preferring MP4 these days, but I've still had terrible results getting a good encode with that from other programs (Handbrake, for example). I've been sticking pretty much to the guides, but I've had issues lately with encoding in MPEG-2 (timecode issues when playing the file in WMP - still hugely frustrating problem for me, but I digress).
Any thoughts, suggestions, different methods that you use?

[Rider4Z]

Most cons are shifting to favoring mp4's. Try using AMVsimple provided by AKROSS. It provides compressing into high quality, standard, and preview size mp4s.

[BasharOfTheAges]

...or zarxgui as the OP mentioned. V3 was released quite a while ago.

[Enigmo]

I render every frame of my video in .png format and then enter them into Photoshop to render as my final encode. Photoshop's h.264 video encoding is pretty good.

[Rider4Z]

dude wat?

[hasteroth]

I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound

[Enigmo]

I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound

That's such a stupid way to encode VIDEOS

[hasteroth]

I create animated gifs, I then use gifsound to match it with the appropriate sound

That's such a stupid way to encode VIDEOS

Still a moving picture, so it's still a video.

vid·e·o
ˈvidēˌō
noun
1. the recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.
2. a recording of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape.
"they sat down to watch a video"

[Qyot27]

10-bit 4:4:4 H.264 and Opus. Could also use HEVC at this point now too, but I've not got anything in the pipeline to release. I'd totally do it, though.

[Shui]

I import the pictures into flash, then release it as swf. It's cool because that way you can loop it and even though you didn't edit as much your video is longer than all the others.