It would be helpful if handbrake was able to provide an estimate as to what the new file size would be so it wasnt a guessing game as to which presets I need for the video Im trying to compress.
except he did not address using "web optimized at all" or using other options from the preset dropdown menu like going into "web" and all the options available and what would be ideal based on what we need to to do. All he said was "start with fast 1080p" well, I did and I didnt get the file size down to what I needed that's why I started looking on youtube. And all im doing is trying to get a video of 170mb under 100mb and clicking web optimized wasn't enough to the that so I wouldve liked to learn what option is best for me to reduce the file size AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE using the preset options. There was no explanation on that whatsoever. Nothing worse than watching an 8 minute tutorial and learning anything.
Great pro video tutorial Charles and great tips. Changing the file to .MP4 saved me a lot of time struggling to get it right, Also choosing Web Optimised option will reduce the file size tremendously.
tip: if you wanna test how fast your video is gonna encode or how big the file size is gonna be especially for longer videos, you can always try splitting the video from "chapters" to "seconds". 30s-60s duration is a good and fast way to check.
Thank you this, helped refresh my memory perfectly. In case anyone is having trouble change the container name from m4v to mp4 right before starting the encoding. Some programs like Discord to not like m4v
Good presentation. The only problem I had(watching it on iPad) was reading and following diagrams on screen, everything seemed tiny. I found pausing video helped.
I shot a video in 4k (25p 100) in dimensions 16:9 and in the editing software I turned it to 9:16 so that it fits Tiktok. How do I shrink it to fit WhatsApp, that is, up to 64 mb without harming its quality because it seems to come out "smeared" in WhatsApp? Thanks
Great tutorial, thank you! I would note that on a Mac, Handbrake requires you to rename the file because it will not overwrite the source file. It also saves the file as an .MP4, so no need to change the filename extension. Using your recommended settings, Handbrake compressed a 612MB video down to 101MB. I'm saving a lot of tutorial videos to my iPad, so this will be extremely helpful.
Handbrake for Mac has always encoded videos into saved format mp4. The latest version as of this date is Version 1.5.1 and it gives you the option to save in mp4 or mvk
great vide. Is there a way to preview what the file size is going to be before rendering? Final Cut Pro tells you what size the video will be before rendering. I am trying to not have to re-compress if the files is still too large. thank you in advance
yoooo the man right here!! tryna show my friends turning red but its 1.8gb so i gotta compress it. and damn, its only taking like under 20 mins so thats cool
First off, thanks for going over the basics. Much Appreciated. Do you happen to know if there is anyway to see the size of the File Output before you export it?
I changed the file extension from .m4v to .mp4 before starting the encoding, but when I try to upload the video as an Instagram reel, half of the video turns into a black screen. Suggestions?
I have been using Handbrake for almost a year plus now. You failed to have explained all the tabs as seen but rather you skipped one of the tabs that I use to edit. Please confirm if that is fine for me.I am referring to the Filters tab. I am to turn all the settings off or just one?
handbrake is the best thing possible (from what ive seen anyway) for ripping dvds for use with something like plex, though personally i use makemkv to rip the dvds first, then transcode after
nice quick tutorial, one question, when selecting the audio, what should i use to prevent any audio quality loss? example, how do i keep the same DTS-HD MA instead of having it compressed into a stereo mix?
Great video! Thank you! I have however in my videos encountered a real loss in image quality after using handbrake. Every few seconds, the image degrades considerable then continues. Any thoughts on this? Les
Question: I formatted a PPT presentation to MP4, and then compressed in Handbrake. A great job with excellent compression (from 274MB to 74 MB) .... BUT .... Handbrake has trimmed off the edges of my PPT slides on each side ... leaving much text too close to the edge or even slightly cropped. Any advice on how to correct it? Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, I don't believe any of the codecs HandBrake exports to support alpha channels. It can transcode alpha channel .mov footage, but the exported file will have a black background instead of a clear alpha channel.
Another option is just exporting to h265 on Media Encoder which is considerably more efficient than h264. There may be some compatibility issues but I use it all the time for youtube and messenger, works fine on those and I have only had one person who could not open it because she was running a now very old version of Mac OS (support was included in Mac OS from High Sierra onward I believe). Media Encoder also now has the option of hardware acceleration, which drops the quality a tad but exports considerably faster for me.
Hi. I just recently downloaded this Handbrake app. But my problem after downloaded, There is a notification stating that " You need to install .NET. would you like to download it now?" How to get rid of this? Pls help.
i did everything as you said but estimated time to create a new file was over 3 hours. so i changed the encoder speed to superfast and it created a new file in about 15 minutes. only trouble is youtube is still estimating 2 hours to download my video. what should i do now?
Sir, when i am trying to compress a full HD film with subtitles in HANDBRAKE then some part of the text of subtitles are cutting to the downward. PROJECT SETTING IN FILMORA 9 16:9 (WIDESCREEN) 1920*1080 (FULL HD) 25 fps I HAVE USED CROP IN VIDEO CLIPS 1920*870 IN FILMORA 9 PLS GUIDE ME REGARDING THE SETTING OF HANDBRAKE WITHOUT LOOSING SUBTITILES. THANKS
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It would be helpful if handbrake was able to provide an estimate as to what the new file size would be so it wasnt a guessing game as to which presets I need for the video Im trying to compress.
agreed has anyone worked this out?
Worrrrd!
Ayyy thats a shout
But it's all good. At the end of the day what we hope for is a smaller file size
Simple to understand. Straight to the point. Useful. No blabber. Well done and thanks for sharing your knowledge here.
finally someone who does his homework before uploading a youtube video
I am really annoyed by those countless Indian Tech Videos.
except he did not address using "web optimized at all" or using other options from the preset dropdown menu like going into "web" and all the options available and what would be ideal based on what we need to to do. All he said was "start with fast 1080p" well, I did and I didnt get the file size down to what I needed that's why I started looking on youtube. And all im doing is trying to get a video of 170mb under 100mb and clicking web optimized wasn't enough to the that so I wouldve liked to learn what option is best for me to reduce the file size AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE using the preset options. There was no explanation on that whatsoever. Nothing worse than watching an 8 minute tutorial and learning anything.
@@ronaldthompson474 Yes, there is NOTHING worse than watching free content and not being satisfied.
This is a good video tutorial, no wasting time, strait to the point, no background music, and ads etc.
actually there is background music just very low volume
Thank you it worked. I was really struggling to get the video file size down. I will have to use Hand Brake a lot more now I know how easy it was.
This was great. Love when people get right to the point and never get off topic. Thank you
Tutorial starts at 3:02
THANK YOU!!!!
Great pro video tutorial Charles and great tips. Changing the file to .MP4 saved me a lot of time struggling to get it right, Also choosing Web Optimised option will reduce the file size tremendously.
tip: if you wanna test how fast your video is gonna encode or how big the file size is gonna be especially for longer videos, you can always try splitting the video from "chapters" to "seconds". 30s-60s duration is a good and fast way to check.
What? Where/How?
Thank you this, helped refresh my memory perfectly. In case anyone is having trouble change the container name from m4v to mp4 right before starting the encoding. Some programs like Discord to not like m4v
Good presentation. The only problem I had(watching it on iPad) was reading and following diagrams on screen, everything seemed tiny. I found pausing video helped.
The .m4v extension was actually causing me issues in uploading the Instagram reels. Thanks to you, I just renamed it to mp4 and it works now
Good tutorial! This guy is mellow af.
I've used this video 3 times over the past 6 months. Thank you :)
This video was very informative and easy to understand, thank you.
You are a lifesaver!!! Excellent tutorial, thank you. Done and done.
I shot a video in 4k (25p 100) in dimensions 16:9 and in the editing software I turned it to 9:16 so that it fits Tiktok. How do I shrink it to fit WhatsApp, that is, up to 64 mb without harming its quality because it seems to come out "smeared" in WhatsApp? Thanks
Did you figure it out . I really need this .
@@AfroJazz1 what do you mean?
@@RabbiHagaiEitanOfficialthank you for responding. I mean did you figure it out how save quality for the small file you can use for what’s app
@@AfroJazz1 Do you have a video tutorial on how to do it? thanks
Great tutorial, thank you! I would note that on a Mac, Handbrake requires you to rename the file because it will not overwrite the source file. It also saves the file as an .MP4, so no need to change the filename extension.
Using your recommended settings, Handbrake compressed a 612MB video down to 101MB. I'm saving a lot of tutorial videos to my iPad, so this will be extremely helpful.
Dude this was very thorough..great job 👍
Thanks a lot some one says handbreak is little bit triky but i not found it triky and by watching your tutorial i able to use handbreak so easliy
Thanks very much for your tutorial Charles, very useful. Cool accent too!
Thank you for this tutorial Shutterstock!
Handbrake for Mac has always encoded videos into saved format mp4. The latest version as of this date is Version 1.5.1 and it gives you the option to save in mp4 or mvk
Brilliant instructions. Thank you!
Thanks... the first straight forward video I found today. Just got a GoPro 9 Black and I was wrestling with how to get my 4k footage to 1080p.
Clearly explained presentation....fantastic! Thank you
great vide. Is there a way to preview what the file size is going to be before rendering? Final Cut Pro tells you what size the video will be before rendering. I am trying to not have to re-compress if the files is still too large. thank you in advance
Question: Should I use Handbrake on video clips before adding to my iMovie project or after exporting iMovie file?
Thank you for making it easy.
Can I suggest inserting close ups of tab activity? I really struggled to actually see what you were doing. X
This was an amazingly instructive video. Thank you so much.
AWESOME presentation. Thank you!
How do I do it with transparent videos?
Followed the same steps...instead of reducing the file size it increased.
Could you please advise?
Super video. Informative and simple to follow.
Can we change the settings while the videos are being compressed? Mine is showing the time remaining as "eternity"! 😨
yoooo the man right here!! tryna show my friends turning red but its 1.8gb so i gotta compress it. and damn, its only taking like under 20 mins so thats cool
Great pro video tutorial
Does anyone know the best settings for smoother slow motion footage, my source is 1080i50
First off, thanks for going over the basics. Much Appreciated. Do you happen to know if there is anyway to see the size of the File Output before you export it?
how can i merge two different audio file into one video file in handbreak is that possible?
I changed the file extension from .m4v to .mp4 before starting the encoding, but when I try to upload the video as an Instagram reel, half of the video turns into a black screen. Suggestions?
What is the significance of changing the audio bitrate? does the audio sound more "raspy" ?
Cheers! Thanks for your help.
Nice, very helpful training video. Thank you.
Can you make a ISO from 5,8 gb smaller to put it on DVD with handbrake?
Great job. Thanks
Useful tutorial. Thank you.
Plz, what are the best settings to compress 40% a 1 hour and a half video recorded in Zoom Meeting program?
excellent thanks for posting.
powerful work
I have been using Handbrake for almost a year plus now. You failed to have explained all the tabs as seen but rather you skipped one of the tabs that I use to edit. Please confirm if that is fine for me.I am referring to the Filters tab. I am to turn all the settings off or just one?
handbrake is the best thing possible (from what ive seen anyway) for ripping dvds for use with something like plex, though personally i use makemkv to rip the dvds first, then transcode after
Very helpful thank you so much
nice quick tutorial, one question, when selecting the audio, what should i use to prevent any audio quality loss? example, how do i keep the same DTS-HD MA instead of having it compressed into a stereo mix?
Thank you for this great content
Very informative, thanks for sharing it with us...dl
I just wanna extract sound to mp3 from mp4, it doesn't have the function
Very helpful. Thank you very much.
Excellent Video and tutorial., Subbed.
Great video! Thank you! I have however in my videos encountered a real loss in image quality after using handbrake. Every few seconds, the image degrades considerable then continues. Any thoughts on this? Les
Question: I formatted a PPT presentation to MP4, and then compressed in Handbrake. A great job with excellent compression (from 274MB to 74 MB) .... BUT .... Handbrake has trimmed off the edges of my PPT slides on each side ... leaving much text too close to the edge or even slightly cropped. Any advice on how to correct it? Thanks in advance.
Hey! Can the encoder handle .mov files with alpha channel? 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, I don't believe any of the codecs HandBrake exports to support alpha channels. It can transcode alpha channel .mov footage, but the exported file will have a black background instead of a clear alpha channel.
@@YeagerFilm Thanks for the answer. If there was this function, then it would be a perfect program.
Please do we have a version for Android phone
Another option is just exporting to h265 on Media Encoder which is considerably more efficient than h264. There may be some compatibility issues but I use it all the time for youtube and messenger, works fine on those and I have only had one person who could not open it because she was running a now very old version of Mac OS (support was included in Mac OS from High Sierra onward I believe). Media Encoder also now has the option of hardware acceleration, which drops the quality a tad but exports considerably faster for me.
Thank you very much for this video it really helped.
thank yo so much! very helpful :)
Very helpful, thank you.
I am using this with a 2.7K video file but can't get it to remain as a 2.7K after compressing...what am I doing wrong?
You went from 117MB's to 3.65MB's = 97% reduction. Using your setting above I went from 763 MB's to 437 MB's = 43% reduction. What am I doing wrong?
thank you so much!
thank you!
i downloaded this app it work but when i will save it the it wont work if wont save the video.
Thank you for explaining!!!
Awesome thanks!
So brilliant video I really like it.
Thanks bro
Thanks so much for this super helpful video!! :)
Super helpful, thanks so much!
Legend. Thank you
i compressed the file and it actually got bigger please explain
Great info....
Install missing framework for .Net, even after installing nothing happens same error pops again somebody help please
Thanks for the vid
Well explained
I tried compressing multiple videos at once. But I can't understand how to do it.
Hi. I just recently downloaded this Handbrake app. But my problem after downloaded, There is a notification stating that " You need to install .NET. would you like to download it now?" How to get rid of this? Pls help.
How do you change M4V to MP4?
Just rename it
@@ePICS8 My P4V files "identified" as "MP4" files. Thanks
i did everything as you said but estimated time to create a new file was over 3 hours. so i changed the encoder speed to superfast and it created a new file in about 15 minutes. only trouble is youtube is still estimating 2 hours to download my video. what should i do now?
Dope!
what about compressing 4K video without losing quality?
thanks!
Sir, when i am trying to compress a full HD film with subtitles in HANDBRAKE then
some part of the text of subtitles are cutting to the downward.
PROJECT SETTING IN FILMORA 9
16:9 (WIDESCREEN)
1920*1080 (FULL HD)
25 fps
I HAVE USED CROP IN VIDEO CLIPS 1920*870 IN FILMORA 9
PLS GUIDE ME REGARDING THE SETTING OF HANDBRAKE WITHOUT LOOSING SUBTITILES. THANKS
Many blessings to you!
Big thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Should I still use fast 1080 30 if I record in 4K 60?
It is just a preset. You can modify it as you like. Some applies advanced settings like "frame reference" or assign a set "bit rate".
its not working for me am still getting the same file size after the output
Me too! I don't get it!
I can't some how reduce a 14M file to 10M or less I wonder Why - followed your video instructions - Any thoughts on it is appreciated.
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I want to compress a small 5 min video to send via text message on the phone. Does anyone know what setting to use, please?
Much help boss thank u