FFMPEG: Webm To Mp4 Quality Loss

When trying to convert a .webm video (two colored animation) to a .mp4 video using ffmpeg (3.4.2 on mac) the result is somewhat blurry. I did research this topic and tried differen

Solution 1:

Changing -qscale 1 to -crf 1 resolves the quality issue. The working command is:

ffmpeg -i video.webm -crf 1 -c:v libx264 video.mp4

As outlined in the H.264 Video Encoding Guide -crf takes in values from 0 (lossless) to 51 (worst quality).