hi welcome to Teachers Tech my name is Jamie and it's great to have you here today I want
to show you how you can reduce video file size with handbrake without compromising any video
quality so this is a free method you are going to need to download a handbrake on
your computer and this is available whether you're on on your Windows
or Mac or Linux there's lots of operating systems you can choose from so today let me
show you how you can compress your video without losing any video quality foreign
so step one is to install handbrake and like I said handbrake is free and it's cross-platform so
just go ahead and click on the red button here and follow the instructions to install it onto your
computer so if you left the check mark checked to have the desktop shortcut you should have this
right here now I want to point out I have a video underneath it that I'm going to compress today
and this one you can see it runs about 400 Megs a little less than that I'm going to compress this
to a different size where also I don't lose any of the quality I actually used handbrake the other
day I compressed an 18 gig video and I didn't even go through a lot of the settings but I was able to
bring it down to three gigs very quickly so let's go ahead and open up handbrake now so now that I
have handbrake opened you can see you have a few different options I could go to a folder
for a batch scan so I would go and just select any of these and go pick the folder I I could
go to a file and upload it or I can just simply drag or drop things over so in this case the one
I showed you I'm just going to drag and drop it in here and now I'm going to just get ready to show
you how we can pick some quick settings and how we even can modify them so now that I got this open
you can quickly go and add a source to handbrake now I can do this in a few different ways I could
put an entire folder connected with this so if you have a bunch of videos in the folder so you could
open it this way and just click on it and then go get that folder select the one or I could open a
individual file just like that so that's one way you can do it but you can just drag things over
too so I if I had an entire folder I can just drag it into here so I'm going to be using this
video and I can just drag it in so right away when I drag it in it gives me a source preview
here and if I look up at the top right here we have source so this is what it was called here
but if I ever want to change the source maybe I put the wrong one in the wrong video and I wanted
a different one just go back to open source here and then you could go ahead and drag a different
one or go find it but if you don't want to change it you can just go ahead and hit cancel and notice
this time if I go back I can if I wanted to change any of these titles the titles here of choose to
it I could but I only have the one video so I don't have a bunch of different ones to go from
from a batch so it's just going to be that one now again I don't have any chapters in this as
well so the next thing that I want to point out that we're going to move on to is we're going to
take a look at the preset how we can quickly choose uh settings but then we have all these
settings down here that we can make adjustments to modify even the preset that we chose so if we take
a quick look at my source again you can see at 38 40 times 2160 this is in 4k we have 30 frames per
second so I want to be able to compress this now a quick way to do this is just to use the preset
and by default you can see that this is set right here to 1080p 30 frames so this is fast but if we
drop down I want to show you you can choose a lot of different ones so if you kind of just scroll
down through here you can see kind of the general lens you can see ones for the web if I hover over
any of these you gives you a description of why you would choose any of these here so you could
get this long list maybe you want to watch it on a different device where you can make it smaller
the file but not lose the quality for that device so you have lots of options now let's say this is
just you're good with this and you just want to start compressing before getting into any
of these settings to modify you just are in a hurry what you can do is go ahead and just click
Start encode and it's going to start making it smaller so it's going to take it from the source
and go to preset what this set is here I want to point out at the bottom here this is where
it's going to get saved as so it gives the path if I go over to browse I can open up and choose
the location that I would like and then you can see there's also when done we have some options
here uh what you want to do as well but we're not going to process this yet I just wanted to show if
you're in a hurry you can go ahead and do that and just leave it at that first preset now let's say
you weren't sure maybe what the quality would be like for this what you can do is you can create a
quick preview because sometimes when you start your compressing when it goes through this it
can take a while to definitely also based on your settings so you can actually do a quick preview
of what the compression will look like so if I go to preview what happens is I can generate a
live preview so this is just the preview rate now but what I can do is go to here well maybe I just
want a quick 10 seconds here but I can choose more if I want to drop down but I all I have to do is
choose 10 let's say where I can make some show crop adjustment controls I don't need that I'm
just going to go live preview and what it takes since this is only 10 seconds it's going to run
through this quite quickly and then a different window on my computer is going to open up with
that 10 seconds and I'll show you here you shared with others because so now this is opened up and
I have this 10 second clip in my Windows Media Player because it opened by default and I can
take a quick look at the Quality to see if that was good without having to process the whole
thing okay so let's go now into the individual settings how we can make some modifications to
this so that you can get your compression and quality just the way you want so maybe you have
a little more more time to play around with your settings just to see what the difference is you
can make yourself now on this first tab right here we get a summary of the settings and we can kind
of just take that quick look so we can see the format MP4 we could drop down make the changes
there if we would like we're going to start from there and we have these different checks
and we can see the tracks that are connected to the different settings in the other tabs notice
how this is format MP4 you can change the default on this as well if you ever want to look for any
of your defaults just go up to your preferences under Tools and take a look at all the different
preferences that you can go through so for example if I take a look at the output file uh here's that
one right here MP4 extension always use MP4 but I could make an adjustment right here so I just
want to point out there are preferences that you can go through and set as long as well as
your default location so I'm going to go back and just to kind of go through these different tabs in
these settings so if I go over to Dimensions you can see right away we have a few more options we
can do some cropping and orientation so if you filmed it maybe in the wrong way and then you
can just make that change here so this can do a lot more than just compression you can do those
cropping maybe you have those black lines on the side that you'd like to remove so this is where
you can do that we have resolution and scaling so notice we have 1080p I did start this this is a
4K one so it's going to be turned into 1080p but this is where I can make some changes as well as
well as in take a look at the different options and I can even Place borders on if I go over to
the next tab we have filters and I'm not going to make any changes I actually haven't played with a
lot of these changes besides the grayscale which turns it simply into black and white but I'm not
going to make any adjustment to these filters if we go over to video here I want to point out with
any of these things if we hover over if you're not sure what anything is so take a look where it says
quality if I hover over you can see it gives a description so with this in this case uh if I
change this all the way to zero the size is going to be actually larger than what I started with so
you can see that it gives the kind of description tells you which way you can drag things on the
quality so if you look through it a value of zero means lossless and then you'd have a bigger file
so you wouldn't want to be dragging this all the way up now over here I take a look at video so
right now we have our h.264 and this is common for YouTube videos and everything we do have different
formats we could go to we have our h.265 which is newer but I'm not sure if all formats all uh
all different services will accept the 265 but you can go ahead and try try that out as well
so if we go through we have some encoder options and notice that we can go faster or slower again
hover over this so adjust the encoder settings to trade off compression efficient efficiency
against in coding speed so making sure you know how fast you want this to go are you ready to lose
some quality or some compression in it so just go through and make those adjustments depending what
you want if I go over to audio I can select the different codecs for audio usually doesn't make
a big difference in the uh the overall size of the file so I'm not going to make any changes in this
you can see where I can make bitrate changes in this and the different mix down as well I don't
have any subtitles or anything in this video here that I would be choosing any of these
but you can see the different settings if you do have these in your videos and also with chapters
um as well so now if everything is set the way you'd want all you need to do now I would suggest
do your preview first to check make sure that the quality is as good as you want it to be but
you can go ahead and you just hit start encoding so this is where the process is going to start so
if you look at the bottom it's going to start going through and it gives me the time elapse
here and remember depending on your settings this can take a bit of time here but if we look we have
some options here where we can stop it or pause it so I'm just going to let this run through and
then we'll compare our size of the files at the end so that took about 10 minutes to go through
that processing on handbrake 400 megabyte file let's see what we got now now if I go over it
you can see the original one right here but if I just go and check out the properties here we
can now see that it's 88.3 megabytes it went from 400 to 8 88 on it again I could make some
changes to the different settings if I wanted to try to get that smaller but remember you
might lose quality if you do find the settings uh you kind of get everything the way you would
like here you can save that as a preset so you don't have to go back each time and save them so
if I had this all set up the way I want I could go up to presets here and we could go ahead and
add a preset see the ones that we already have but I could go ahead and add one and give it
a name and go through there so if you do get it just the way you want save your time with
making a preset so I hope you like this how to use handbrake to compress your videos without
losing quality I find this is very helpful I use this quite a bit and it doesn't cost anything let
me know what's working and what's not working for you down below in the description thanks
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