hey youtube today I want to take a look at some H EVC video files that I have
and how I'm going to convert them to a format that works well with Mac OS hi
Sierra iOS 11 and TV OS 11 I know this would be
very popular a lot of people want to convert their videos especially if you
have a large TV or movie collection me personally I have about 16 terabytes of
data stored locally so I'm really excited to convert all my data over
you'll save me quite a bit especially in cloud backups if you're using a cloud
backup service this will really save you a lot now there's a few different
formats floating around and the reason I want to do this video was to show you
how to remix Chur hopefully save you guys some time in converting so that you
don't have to convert completely convert your videos over I have two examples
here that I'm going to use this may vary for you and this only will work for Mac
I don't have a solution for Windows yet but I'll take a look at it see what I
can post for you guys two of these applications I'm going to
be using our paid applications one of them is free the two paid applications
are quite a bit quicker than the free alternative but to each their own so
we're gonna start by taking a look at the two different containers that are
very popular around the internet right now which would be the MKV container and
they M for the container which is actually an mp4 container you can see
now these do not direct play on Mac OS High Sierra which I'm on right now so
these files would require conversion to play natively that means if you're
streaming with Plex or you're streaming even with VLC it's still gonna have to
perform a software conversion so we'll take a look at these files quickly here
in an application called media info you can get this on the App Store and it is
not necessary but it does give you a breakdown of the audio and video video
in the container here so you can see which application made it the variable
bitrate and the audio streams and then you can
also confirm that your video codec is HEV C same thing with the m4v file same
thing so how do we convert these so I have two options the first one I'll
start with is the free option it's the long option it's the one that's gonna
take a while and this is handbrake handbrake is known by a lot of Mac
Windows Linux users is a really great application free application and it will
convert all of your media some of it isn't hardware decoded so it depending
on the system you're using the graphics card this might use CPU to convert which
means it will take a very very long time as an example here I have the Rick and
Morty episode loaded and if we go here and change to the HEV C codec I'm going
to choose just fast so this is just the basic presets I'm not going to get into
presets with with handbrake here and then we'll set my destination to convert
at HEB C so when I hit I just have to change the directory really quickly and
we hit begin you will see an average 25 minute movie or TV show or video home
video will take you approximately 30 to 35 minutes even longer to convert
so this is your first option as long as you're using the nightly build so if we
head back here you go do downloads nightly builds so make sure that you're
using the nightly build because the general release here unfortunately is
not compatible with the latest Mac OS hi Sierra
so let's get into a faster way to do this this is probably what you guys are
actually here for so I have an application that I purchased back in
2013 on the App Store and it just got updated so I'm not again this is a ten
dollar application unfortunately I don't have a free way to do this if somebody
has a free way to do this I would love to hear it please post in the comments
and then I will make a video for now unfortunately ten dollars is the best to
do this quickly so what is MKV to mp4 basically it is an application that will
convert the audio and REE mixture the container so you don't have to
reencounter
when you're converting from an mkb to the mp4 format used by Apple Mouse so
the HEV C so as long as your video has are the video that you're going to
convert is using the HEV C codec which we verified using the media info and
from application which is so straight here so as long as you have an HEV C mp4
container this should work and it is really as simple as dragging designating
the area you'd like it to put this file and hitting begin now you can see how
fast this conversion is going the only thing it's converting right now is the
audio from the flock to the AAC which will be compatible with the Apple TV's
your iOS 10 or whatever once the conversion is complete you can see now I
actually get a preview and if I were to start playing this video which I'll have
to block this sorry guys but the video is now compatible
with the Mac OS hi Sierra this will direct stream through Plex now I have
another example here and I couldn't figure out what to do what happens when
you have an mp4 container and an M for V now I want to show you guys m4 v is mp4
you will not corrupt the video by changing the extension so I'm gonna
change the extension right here from m4 v to mp4 and as you can see here I still
don't get the preview because this video the container created is not compatible
so what do we do about this well initially I thought that I had to
re-encode a lot of my videos and I was pretty upset about this because Rhian
coding with handbrake like as you seen can be 3040 minutes per episode that's
quite a bit of conversion time so what I discovered was again we can use MKV to
mp4 to remix Chur this container into a compatible container that will work with
the latest Mac OS iOS releases the first thing you need to do is you have to
change this so if you have an m4v file you will not be able to use it in MKV to
mp4 now I've actually emailed a developer and asked him to add this
extension as it makes no difference but currently you do have to manually change
the extension to mp4 and then just like the MK V we will remix Chur now the only
thing is you can't remix Chur into the same folder so remember to select a
different folder so it doesn't try to rewrite the video that your remix
churring and you will see here the conversion once again it's going to
convert the audio the incompatible audio and now in our new folder here I can
move it back up we have a container that is compatible with Mac OS hi Sierra
i OS 11 same room and so that's how you can convert your video files over to the
new HEV C format if you are using an older format and you're wanting to
convert to the newer format you will have to use handbrake MKV to mp4 is just
a container remixer so these this is only useful if you already have HEV C
content so this isn't going to convert non HEV C content to a chibi C just for
that note you will have to do handbrake and there really is no other way around
it right now to speed it up but still this is great news for all of us with
like tons and tons of data like I said I've got stacks of hard drives that sit
here and Hum all day long 16 terabytes of rated data
I've got about 18 terabytes on hand so having this is going to be really huge
for me in the future for saving data and I also believe it'll be huge for
everybody else Thank You Apple for adopting HEV C that is really necessary
that we keep up with this new technology that's coming out and because you're
such an influence in the tech community it's nice to see that when you adopt
something that the rest of the world adopts it's that's pretty cool
thank you again thanks everybody for watching this channel subscribe to the
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possibly make a video on it thanks again we'll see you guys again
next time