If Handbrake keeps changing the output size you must set the desired resolution [on the 'Dimensions' tab] then select Custom Cropping and make sure the Top, Left, Bottom and Right are set to 0.
Wow! Thanks for the tip! You're a life saver! I am from the Philippines and we don't have the best internet. My only way for uploading more frequently on youtube is to have smaller file sizes.
Thank you for this video Dotty, I have struggled for years with uploading. The simple, every-day, language and and walk-through that you use in this demonstration make it easy enough for anyone to follow along and create something that they can have pride in. Keep up the good work!
What a great video and tutorial......SO practical.....Most of the time when you seek something out like this, it ends up being complicated , frustrating and just enough gets left out that you never fully understand how to solve your problem. That wasn't the case here. Each step was clear and to the point. You're a great teacher. Thank you SO much for this.......
THANK YOU!!! FINALLY!!! A video that actually worked to reduce the file size for me. And I shot in 1920x1080, with version 1.3.3 and it still did the job. I watched so many videos that didn't work, I was losing my mind. Thanks again!!!
I highly suggest changing the framerate settings from variable to constant (CFR) otherwise this will lead to out-of-sync Audio/Video in the video editing software like adope premiere pro if it stays Variable Frame Rate
That's amazing. Your video is really high quality and you got it down to 50 mb. The problem I have is that my video is very low quality, but I can't seem to get the file size below 1 gb without making the quality even worse.
Thank you so much! I'm copying over old family home movies from DVD to my external HD. I found Handbrake but had no clue what settings to use. This was super easy to follow even though the current interface is slightly different.
Hey Jaime, thanks for the great video! 1 quick question: When you changed the bitrate to 2500 did you run the original video through or the one that was only 321 MB? Thanks!
you must make and name a preset first,then restart the program and load your preset,all your settings will be there,also use h265/HEVC this will make your video substantially smaler,50% smaller then h264,you can also set this preset as your default preset in the options menu,so when you start the program this preset will always load
I already know how to use handbreak, but i sent this to a friend b/c they're new to using handbreak, and i started watching the first few seconds to make sure it was 100% legit ez and straight to the point and by default i ended up watching the whole thing from beginning to the end just because the whole flow of your vid-tut was very relaxing and therapeutic, plus you got a great podcast friendly voice, so yeah lol... great tut man! Keep em' going!
Good work I edit older animated series’s and upload them to upload for others. Handbrake is my main converter. H.265 10-bit is what I use in my video settings.
Thank you for your upload. For your favourite movies and archives: As you know re-encoding will always reduce the source definition by a small margin. Also I have found some film distributors don't always achieve a good job in video transfer and video noise is introduced during processing. If one can be bothered it's worth studying the filter section in Handbrake as you can remove noise and sharpen image. Analogue video captures can also be cleaned up by small percentages.
great tips,but using a lower bitrate is not the way to go,use h265/HEVC instaid of h264,as the lowered bitrate wil cause fast moving objects in the video to get blurred,also using YADIF for de-interlacing makes the video sharper,that is,if your video was interlaced naturally,this way it makes a progressive scan,combining the two fields together
Dope tutorial ! Use to use this when it first cam out. Ran into old files back in the day. I saw a file H.B. Type into UA-cam. Saw your channel. Check it out. Like your demo and explanation of your self and your company. Great job keep up the good work. About to check out the rest of your tutorials and website. Peace from Vegas!! Ed
Hey Thankyou so much for this video! I’m new to using computers/software/video all of the rest. I couldn’t see a difference in quality when you showed them all at the end? does that mean that all the settings you explain all keep the same quality you started with? Thanks again x
Thanks for this! I got tired of splitting up my online lectures. The largest video my course platform will accept is a 500 MB! Now, I can show short video clips within my lectures and record in presenter mode without worrying about the size of the video. Cheers!
From the settings you suggested,which ones would u recommend changing for 1080p videos? Or,could u tell me a general technique i can follow for video of any resolution (say 480p or 720p)? For example, maybe changing the bitrate to 1000 for 1080p (im just giving an example of what things could be changed for video of different resolution)
Thanks! Great question and honestly I split test both often. Usually variable frame rate for shorter videos. I think I encountered drifting once & restarted computer and tried again
Great Video! Thanks for posting it, this will be a game changer for us! We live in a part of Virginia where there is no cell service and .54 upload speed... how's that for high speed internet... Thanks again for posting this video!!!!! MGF
Hi Bro, I give this video a big thumbs up. I have got 62 Mb compressed video from the 1.8 GB original size without losing any detail and quality of the video itself. FYI, I work from Windows and on the "video" tab I only changed the Constant Quality to 18 as per your instructions without tick/change the "Avg Bitrate" (by default the value is 0). Terima Kasih from Indonesia.
I tried making the bitrate 2500 like you said in the video but the quality was very bad and noticeable so 800mb from the original 1.91gb vid is pretty good.
Hi, great video, but i have a question, my compressed video saves as a doc and not a video file, so i cannot open it after compression, what should i do?
Thankyou Soo much I just got into youtube and started making and uploading videos . The first video which I made and edited and saved with the help of my video editor u was about 1.3 gb a 16 minute video then I decreased the videos quality of the video from Full HD to HD and the video was about 400 MB and as my data pack was 1.5 GB a day it was a night mare but now I can compress my videos without losing the quality
Thanks man ...this helped me like u have no idea ....couldn't figure this program out till u came along...thanks again bro ...if u do a more in depth video on editing ect. with this program ..that would be great ...thanks again bro...
Handbrake saved my life a few times. I use Compressor a ton, but Handbrake is a very competent FREE alternative! Great video. I learned some things! #Subscribed
Thank You, for this video, opening my eyes and mind to Handbrake. It seemed fast paced, still, there is much to learn about this software that I would have never known if you didn't make it. Please make more they're really appreciated. P.S ., I Subscribed, clicked the Bell and set it for all your videos.
Thanks for this great new tutorial. Any advice for when an iPhone made video is out of sync ( When the audio drifts as the clip goes on..) ? Should we leave the 'Constant Framerate' checked and then save it ? Thats what some have suggested on line. Any input from you please?
Yes, it will compress more smaller size. But the problem is not any device support that x265 codec, maybe 3 or 5 years later ppl will use this codec or x266 (more smaller than x265).
Hey! Thanks a lot for this video. I have a question; even though I use all the settings and the 2500 bitrate it takes a very long time. Not 1,5 minutes as you said in the video, what am I doing wrong?
I tried your method to backup bluray movies and I get errors detected by handbrake and it'll stop encoding. I have tried three different movies and keep getting the same thing. My settings are like yours.
You should've started with the 2500 bitrate. I had a HUGE file that took 30 minutes to process, which raised my PC temperature to 90 fricking degrees. That means I had to do it all over again
This was working great the first few times but now suddenly even with seemingly the correct format set my files after processing are not MP4 and I cannot view. It no longer says OPEN when I click on file but OPEN WITH, and then I cannot view. HELP !
I'm trying to convert footage shot on GoPro Fusion from 5.6K Cineform to MP4 without visual loss or lower resolution. Have you worked much with 360 footage? I'm trying this application out for the first time right now, but I'm really curious as to which codec I should use and what bitrate I should target. The file I'm currently processing is less than 6 minutes long, but is almost 25gb in size. It's taking awhile to convert I'd also like to know how well the upscaling feature works? Is it worthwhile?
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
Specials Extras?- I grab the whole folder and HB makes a perfect movie in MP4 - thats ok inc normal and commentary tracks but where are the extras? as i grabbed all files in that folder, so what happened to them?? How do i include them like they appeared on the DVD?
A movie I did just saves as "file" and it seems plex isn't able to find it, should I wait half a day and handbrake it again to see if that works or would there be a way to rename it so Plex can find it?
Thanks for the tutorial, my song video has been on hold for release while I figured out how to compress. Any specific recommends for music video reduction?
This looks like the tool I need. I have a BIG (19gb) AVI file on my 2017 iMac running Monterey 12.1 that I want to convert to MP4. Do you happen to have a tutorial on this type of project that also shows how to compress the file size if I want to?
Hi, there and thank you Jaime Garza for sharing how to use Handbrake. Question for you if you able to show if it is possible to do using this software on how to Merge all files together as opposed to separate individual files?
Could I use 1080p even if I filmed in 4k ..my fcpx file size is huge it's a two hour long film that I want to upload to UA-cam. so would I be best in have it compressed in handbrake as a 1080p file please
hi i have a problem, my video is supposed to be at 1080 x 1080 but it changes the format in handbrake to 828 x 1068 and whenever i try to change it, it changes back to 828 x 1068
Hey buddy. Been a long time handbrake fan, but recently switched over to an app called hybrid which is a front end for vapoursynth with qtgmc deinterlacer. Blows handbrake out of the water. It has a steeper learning curve. But much better quality. They have a mac version too. (that’s what i have)
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finding a straight-forward video for Handbrake on Mac took a little while. But didn't need to go anywhere after this. Thanks, man.
Thats what im talkin bout! #MacLife had to hold it down for us buddy 🧨
If Handbrake keeps changing the output size you must set the desired resolution [on the 'Dimensions' tab] then select Custom
Cropping and make sure the Top, Left, Bottom and Right are set to 0.
how do you reccomend changing a 480p to 720 or 1080?
I can't download with windows 8. Help please.
Wow. This was super helpful. Thank you for being "open source" with your knowledge on this one!
you are a very good teacher. this is the first youtube comment I've ever written but I had to say this!! Thank you.
Comments like this really fulfill my soul! Thank you for the positivity 💥🧨
Wow! Thanks for the tip! You're a life saver! I am from the Philippines and we don't have the best internet. My only way for uploading more frequently on youtube is to have smaller file sizes.
This is brilliant! The only advice that helped with the compression of my UA-cam makeup vids. A million thanks!
Woo hoo! I love hearing it, keep putting out awesome content 🧨
Thank you for this video Dotty, I have struggled for years with uploading.
The simple, every-day, language and and walk-through that you use in this demonstration make it easy enough for anyone to follow along and create something that they can have pride in. Keep up the good work!
What a great video and tutorial......SO practical.....Most of the time when you seek something out like this, it ends up being complicated , frustrating and just enough gets left out that you never fully understand how to solve your problem. That wasn't the case here. Each step was clear and to the point. You're a great teacher. Thank you SO much for this.......
THANK YOU!!! FINALLY!!! A video that actually worked to reduce the file size for me. And I shot in 1920x1080, with version 1.3.3 and it still did the job. I watched so many videos that didn't work, I was losing my mind. Thanks again!!!
I highly suggest changing the framerate settings from variable to constant (CFR) otherwise this will lead to out-of-sync Audio/Video in the video editing software like adope premiere pro if it stays Variable Frame Rate
i was about to ask the difference between these two, ty
That's amazing. Your video is really high quality and you got it down to 50 mb. The problem I have is that my video is very low quality, but I can't seem to get the file size below 1 gb without making the quality even worse.
Thank you so much! I'm copying over old family home movies from DVD to my external HD. I found Handbrake but had no clue what settings to use. This was super easy to follow even though the current interface is slightly different.
Thanks, I can't wait to download this, and reduce my kids hockey games. Great tutorial.
Hey Jaime, thanks for the great video! 1 quick question: When you changed the bitrate to 2500 did you run the original video through or the one that was only 321 MB? Thanks!
Ya I was wondering the same thing because i did the 2500 and it only split the video size in half and it took an hour for a 400mb video
it won't let me preserve the resolution
When i type in 3840x2160 it just changes it back to 1080p (source is also 4k)
I had to change the preset to UA-cam HQ 2160p60 4K and then modify from there to get 4K output.
Same
you must make and name a preset first,then restart the program and load your preset,all your settings will be there,also use h265/HEVC this will make your video substantially smaler,50% smaller then h264,you can also set this preset as your default preset in the options menu,so when you start the program this preset will always load
I already know how to use handbreak, but i sent this to a friend b/c they're new to using handbreak, and i started watching the first few seconds to make sure it was 100% legit ez and straight to the point and by default i ended up watching the whole thing from beginning to the end just because the whole flow of your vid-tut was very relaxing and therapeutic, plus you got a great podcast friendly voice, so yeah lol... great tut man! Keep em' going!
Good work I edit older animated series’s and upload them to upload for others. Handbrake is my main converter. H.265 10-bit is what I use in my video settings.
thanks for the info. I couldn't figure out why my file size was increasing. guess I watched the "wrong" video, lol.
same!
Thank you for your upload.
For your favourite movies and archives: As you know re-encoding will always reduce the source definition by a small margin. Also I have found some film distributors don't always achieve a good job in video transfer and video noise is introduced during processing. If one can be bothered it's worth studying the filter section in Handbrake as you can remove noise and sharpen image. Analogue video captures can also be cleaned up by small percentages.
i wasn’t gonna listen to this guy but as soon as i found out he knew he does this for a living i started paying attention lol
Thank you so much for this video, you presented in a clear, concise way that was super easy to follow. Thanks!
Thanks so much! Wish you would’ve showed the shorter bitrate first I already had my big old file in the que- but thanks so much!! Lol
Very helpful, had no idea where to start with the settings. Thank you.
great tips,but using a lower bitrate is not the way to go,use h265/HEVC instaid of h264,as the lowered bitrate wil cause fast moving objects in the video to get blurred,also using YADIF for de-interlacing makes the video sharper,that is,if your video was interlaced naturally,this way it makes a progressive scan,combining the two fields together
great tips!
@@IgniteCinemas you're welcome
Just subbed, Thanks im using HandBrake right now.
Dope tutorial ! Use to use this when it first cam out. Ran into old files back in the day. I saw a file H.B. Type into UA-cam. Saw your channel. Check it out. Like your demo and explanation of your self and your company. Great job keep up the good work. About to check out the rest of your tutorials and website. Peace from Vegas!! Ed
Much love Eddy! It’s all bout the power of video man!
Is it true that handbrake can help you get the audio in sync with the video by fixing the frame rate?
Thanks SOOO much you have made it clear and easy. Will now try on a video and report back results.
thank you so much man!, anyway, i can't get 50MB from 900MB, i just got around 300MB, did you compress video that already compressed ?
Thanks, Very well explained
Hey Thankyou so much for this video! I’m new to using computers/software/video all of the rest. I couldn’t see a difference in quality when you showed them all at the end? does that mean that all the settings you explain all keep the same quality you started with? Thanks again x
No problem & yes you are correct. You can only notice if you are nitpicky.
Thanks for this! I got tired of splitting up my online lectures. The largest video my course platform will accept is a 500 MB! Now, I can show short video clips within my lectures and record in presenter mode without worrying about the size of the video. Cheers!
YASSS! That’s a game changer! Let the power of video flourish within your lectures! Keep being awesome & glad this tutorial could help 🧨
IgniteCinemas I did it for the first time yesterday 1.4 gigs went to 370MB. No compromise in quality that I could detect. Thanks again🤘🏾😎
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From the settings you suggested,which ones would u recommend changing for 1080p videos? Or,could u tell me a general technique i can follow for video of any resolution (say 480p or 720p)? For example, maybe changing the bitrate to 1000 for 1080p (im just giving an example of what things could be changed for video of different resolution)
Thank you. I love that you walked us through the process making it look easy - breaking it down in bitesize bits.
This video explained everything in the most simplest way. This is my third time watching it 🙌
Thank you. Well done. Why variable frame rate, instead of constant? Have you ever experienced synch drift?
Thanks! Great question and honestly I split test both often. Usually variable frame rate for shorter videos. I think I encountered drifting once & restarted computer and tried again
omg thx so much, it would take 5 hours to upload a 2 min video, I rlly can't thank you enough :D!
Great Video! Thanks for posting it, this will be a game changer for us! We live in a part of Virginia where there is no cell service and .54 upload speed... how's that for high speed internet... Thanks again for posting this video!!!!! MGF
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! You are genius! "Web optimized" check! lol Wurked!
Hi Bro, I give this video a big thumbs up. I have got 62 Mb compressed video from the 1.8 GB original size without losing any detail and quality of the video itself. FYI, I work from Windows and on the "video" tab I only changed the Constant Quality to 18 as per your instructions without tick/change the "Avg Bitrate" (by default the value is 0). Terima Kasih from Indonesia.
soo you guys choose 6k bitrate or 2500 ?
I tried making the bitrate 2500 like you said in the video but the quality was very bad and noticeable so 800mb from the original 1.91gb vid is pretty good.
Thank you for sharing this video! Have you made any changes to this process recently or is your workflow for compressing videos the same?
Hi, great video, but i have a question, my compressed video saves as a doc and not a video file, so i cannot open it after compression, what should i do?
Thank you. I have very old videos of my singing performance. Its very dark and the sound is not so good. Is there anyway we can improve this please.
i was almost format my lap for a storage issue. u saved me man! Thank u so fking much!
Thannnnkkkssss very good tutorial
At the beginning under the “Format” tab a checkbox for “Passthru Common Metadata” is checked. Should I leave it checked or uncheck it ?
Thx alooot, it would be lovely revise video for 2022 . best.
Thankyou Soo much I just got into youtube and started making and uploading videos . The first video which I made and edited and saved with the help of my video editor u was about 1.3 gb a 16 minute video then I decreased the videos quality of the video from Full HD to HD and the video was about 400 MB and as my data pack was 1.5 GB a day it was a night mare but now I can compress my videos without losing the quality
How do you keep the quality
Thanks man ...this helped me like u have no idea ....couldn't figure this program out till u came along...thanks again bro ...if u do a more in depth video on editing ect. with this program ..that would be great ...thanks again bro...
Great video and advice, worked for my project!
This looks very helpful! Gonna try it asap. Thanks a lot!
Handbrake saved my life a few times.
I use Compressor a ton, but Handbrake is a very competent FREE alternative! Great video. I learned some things!
#Subscribed
I set it up to 2500 bitrate, but It didn't work :( How come?
Thank You, for this video, opening my eyes and mind to Handbrake. It seemed fast paced, still, there is much to learn about this software that I would have never known if you didn't make it. Please make more they're really appreciated. P.S ., I Subscribed, clicked the Bell and set it for all your videos.
This video is exactly what I needed! Thank you #IgniteCinemas
Thanks for this great new tutorial. Any advice for when an iPhone made video is out of sync ( When the audio drifts as the clip goes on..) ? Should we leave the 'Constant Framerate' checked and then save it ? Thats what some have suggested on line. Any input from you please?
Dankie Sani thank you Sir 💐🌶️🏆
what version are you using cause it looks different then the one i have, i have version 1.3.3 for windows 10
same here, maybe it’s cause he uses a mac
Have you got handbrake settings for 2022 or is it the same settings you used in this tutorial please
Thank you I will try this converter on my videos to avoid UA-cam making my videos look horrible
Is there a particular reason why you don't use x265? I read that it reduces file sizes significantly while retaining quality.
Yes, it will compress more smaller size. But the problem is not any device support that x265 codec, maybe 3 or 5 years later ppl will use this codec or x266 (more smaller than x265).
Well if it lowers the size and uploads it to youtube all the time was lowered in youtube, will be added in handbrake encoding
Hey! Thanks a lot for this video. I have a question; even though I use all the settings and the 2500 bitrate it takes a very long time. Not 1,5 minutes as you said in the video, what am I doing wrong?
Jamie - Ditto to other comments. So helpful for making a work recording fit the
Mine isn't saving to anywhere. I changed it to save to desktop and it wont appear there :/
Great useful video to learn this program. Any advice for making resized videos for Powerpoint Presentations to use in a classroom? Thank you.
Thank you, this video is so helpful. Keep up the great work, brother!!!
Thank you so much 🧨 glad it was helpful
I tried your method to backup bluray movies and I get errors detected by handbrake and it'll stop encoding. I have tried three different movies and keep getting the same thing. My settings are like yours.
You should've started with the 2500 bitrate. I had a HUGE file that took 30 minutes to process, which raised my PC temperature to 90 fricking degrees. That means I had to do it all over again
This was working great the first few times but now suddenly even with seemingly the correct format set my files after processing are not MP4 and I cannot view. It no longer says OPEN when I click on file but OPEN WITH, and then I cannot view. HELP !
add a .mp4 with filename
I'm trying to convert footage shot on GoPro Fusion from 5.6K Cineform to MP4 without visual loss or lower resolution. Have you worked much with 360 footage?
I'm trying this application out for the first time right now, but I'm really curious as to which codec I should use and what bitrate I should target.
The file I'm currently processing is less than 6 minutes long, but is almost 25gb in size. It's taking awhile to convert
I'd also like to know how well the upscaling feature works? Is it worthwhile?
Excellent video!! Thanks for doing this!! Tom
How do you select more than one file to convert at a time without having to reopening each file individually?
What a superb video! Thank you for your expertise.
Hello. I tried to change the quality into 4k but it’s not accepting the numbers that I’m inputting. Any insight why ? Ty
Thank you so much!
Just followed your settings. My 1.5GB file just turned into 2.2GB. Useless garbage. That's some sweet spot
YIKES lol
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
Specials Extras?- I grab the whole folder and HB makes a perfect movie in MP4 - thats ok inc normal and commentary tracks but where are the extras? as i grabbed all files in that folder, so what happened to them?? How do i include them like they appeared on the DVD?
yo dude this increased the MB for me
same
A movie I did just saves as "file" and it seems plex isn't able to find it, should I wait half a day and handbrake it again to see if that works or would there be a way to rename it so Plex can find it?
Thanks for the tutorial, my song video has been on hold for release while I figured out how to compress. Any specific recommends for music video reduction?
thank you
This looks like the tool I need. I have a BIG (19gb) AVI file on my 2017 iMac running Monterey 12.1 that I want to convert to MP4. Do you happen to have a tutorial on this type of project that also shows how to compress the file size if I want to?
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Hi, there and thank you Jaime Garza for sharing how to use Handbrake. Question for you if you able to show if it is possible to do using this software on how to Merge all files together as opposed to separate individual files?
Thank you... VERY Helpful info! :)
I just started to learn how to use Handbrake and got a message Errors detected whist trying to read source. What do I do?
Thank you!!! SO HELPFUL!!!!
What should be the average bitrate for 480p30?
Original bitrate is as 1.1 Mbps.
Could I use 1080p even if I filmed in 4k ..my fcpx file size is huge it's a two hour long film that I want to upload to UA-cam. so would I be best in have it compressed in handbrake as a 1080p file please
hi i have a problem, my video is supposed to be at 1080 x 1080 but it changes the format in handbrake to 828 x 1068 and whenever i try to change it, it changes back to 828 x 1068
Hey buddy. Been a long time handbrake fan, but recently switched over to an app called hybrid which is a front end for vapoursynth with qtgmc deinterlacer.
Blows handbrake out of the water. It has a steeper learning curve. But much better quality.
They have a mac version too. (that’s what i have)
Is it free?
Sakura MP4 yes
You should have changed the video part from x264 to x265, why? Because it's better encoder quality at a smaller size.
@Hajo A The better the CPU the faster it takes.