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HOW TO COMPRESS A VIDEO WITH HANDBRAKE HOW TO
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This is exactly what most gizmos and mainstream video editing software spits out in order to preserve quality. Both those values are waaaay too high – unnecessarily high!

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Note that even though the length of this MOV video is only 6 minutes and 3 seconds, and even though it’s only 720p (1280 x 720 pixels), it’s still 2.5GB in size due to the video’s Data rate and the audio channel’s Bit rate.

Well, if you check the video file’s properties, you’ll most likely see something like this: You’ll probably end up with something like a 6 minute video, but it takes up 2.5GB of space! Why so big? Then, you tell your easy-as-pie video editing software to spit out a video file to share with friends. Let’s say you take a video, and do some editing. Fortunately, there is a free piece of software that lets you shrink and optimize all your vids in just a few quick clicks. Normally, editing and even just compressing/re-encoding videos is really complicated. The video files saved by most devices – including smartphones – is usually not optimal in terms of compression and especially in terms of file size. Heck, even I started a YouTube channel!Įven if you’re not a “video author”, you still probably record videos of family, friends, important events, and so on. Note: The file size that HandBrake can reduced/compressed is depends on many factors, for example, quality of output video/audio, source file, etc.Video is all the rage these days. In this example, HandBrake has reduced file size of this video from 64MB to 13MB.

Once it’s finished, you can check the output file.

You can see the converting progress at bottom.

Now click Start to begin convert the video.

You can change bitrate down to 128 to reduce output file size if you don’t need high quality audio. Here you can manage audio tracks, customize audio codec and bitrate.

Then, select Video tab and check the box Use Advanced Tab instead.

On Options – General, check the box Show Advanced Encoder Options Tab and click Close at the bottom.

If you would like to customize some more advanced option, select Tools -> Options.

The video codec H.264 (x264) and quality at 20 are already default and optimal options for converting most videos. If you lower quality of video, the smaller file size will be, and vice versa. Here you can customize video codec and quality. Note: The Web Optimized option will optimize video file for streaming across the web. And, select output file format (MP4/M4V/MKV) and check the box Web Optimized on Output Settings section.

Then, set file destination, you can click Browse and select where do you want to save the file to.

In this example, I want to reduce file size only so I leave it as Normal. HandBrake comes with pre-defined presets (templates) if you want to convert it for any specific device (iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, Andriod, Windows Phone, etc) by select Presets on the right side.

If HandBrake supports the file, you will see information updated on Source section (title, chapter, duration).

Then browse to the video file that you want to convert and click Open.

Run HandBrake and open source file by click Source.

HOW TO COMPRESS A VIDEO WITH HANDBRAKE MP4

Step-by-step to Convert MP4 to reduce file size

HOW TO COMPRESS A VIDEO WITH HANDBRAKE INSTALL

On Choose Install Location, select folder to install HandBrake and click Next.

On License Agreement, click I Agree to accept the license.

Step-by-step to download and install Handbrake Here is the sample MP4 file, the size is about 64MB which is a screen record for about 3 minutes long and I want to reduce the file size for uploading to YouTube.

HOW TO COMPRESS A VIDEO WITH HANDBRAKE HOW TO

This article will show you how to reduce MP4 file size with HandBrake on Windows 8.1. It’s simple to use and does work on Windows, Linux, and Mac operating system. You can customize video/audio encoders, chapter/title selection, manage subtitles, etc. Handbrake is a free tool that converts video file from almost any formats to MP4(.M4V) and.