hello youtube and fellow preppers i am
Geordie Prepper today's video we're
looking at handbrake which is an open
source program and the videos for
YouTube content creators if like me you
had problems with large audio and video
files the video that you uploaded to
YouTube was taking a very long time to
upload due to its file size are
currently get in a very long time for
the video to process by the YouTube
servers then I hope that this video
helps you out and introduces you to a
program here called HandBrake, the link to
the website will be in the description
below its for many platforms it's for
windows mac and linux and this is a
program that you use at the very end of
your video production stage so this
basically converts the exported file
from whichever video editor that you use
be it iMovie, final cut pro, Premiere. If you
don't have a lot of options on the
export process from those programs then
using HandBrake in your post production
stage just before you upload the video
should give you some things to look at
and should help you with the final size
and it should lead to some very fast
processing times when you're uploading
the video itself so let's get into the
tutorial now and I'll take you through it.
So basically what i have here it's just
a test project,
all I did was filmed seven minutes of
basically an LP spinning around as
you can see here and the LP was just a
pink floyd album and you know this is
just a test really it's just imagine
that you've assembled your video in the
movie editor that you use so i mean i
just use iMovie I'm based on an apple
macintosh so imagine this is the video
that you've created and you're going to
export it for use on to youtube so
there's the video its pretty boring, its
just an LP spinning around we've got a
fade out to black and then we're going to
export the video
the video was shot in 1080p so be sure
to select the 1080p resolution we're
going to output it a high-quality you
can see here the file size is 770
megabyte estimated, once you have selected
just save location just click Save
you'll then get an estimate time that
it's going to take to actually write the
file and i'll skip ahead until it's
finished
so the movie has exported now that is
your finished video that you're going to
put in to youtube and it's at your export
location and you'll note the file size now
it's worth when you're creating content
to look at your original video and see
how big that was so we see here is 1.36
gigabyte now obviously you're not going
to use all of your files in the finished
product that you've got so it's very
likely that the export file will be
smaller than the total sum of all of
your videos makeup so make sure that
your exported final project is smaller
than your total sum of all
their the file sizes of all the videos
that you use to create the content
because if your exported file is larger
by a significant amount then there's
obviously you know maybe perhaps you've
exported it at a higher resolution than
what the video was made up so the video
of the test video i made it was a 1080p
on the camera and I want to make sure
that when it's exported it's at 1080p
size so we can double-check that
in quicktime and what we'll do is we'll
just look at the movie inspector so we
see here that the format is H dot 264
which is basically MPEG 4 and the
file size is 1920 x 1080 the audio is in
AAC which is an Apple compressed format
sampling rate is forty-eight thousand
hertz, it's in stereo the frames per
second is 30 frames per second which is
what I shot the video and the data size
is 769 megabyte there's one important
thing to note here and that is under the
format section and that's the sampling
rate that the audio is in and this would
be related to the audio section that we
cover in the program itself so when we
go into handbrake and we're creating the
file which we're going to upload into
YouTube we're going to go into the audio
section and it's important to make note
of the sampling rate there
audio is an often overlooked thing in
videos and it can increase the size
of the file quite significantly so so
far what we've done is we've exported
the final video product that we're going
to upload to upload to YouTube
we checked certain attributes of it and
the size it's in 1080p and we've also
looked at the audio and we've seen the
sampling rate that that's recorded in and
what we're going to do now is we're
going to use handbrake to prepare that
file in a way which is a lot easier to
upload and it makes the YouTube servers
to break down the file and to process it
quicker than what it would do if you
just simply uploaded your file without
going through HandBrake
so when you open up the program here you
don't normally get that window that's
the queue so you'll be presented with this
window here now I've already saved some
presets so you'll see them down here
there is some preset settings in here
which you can use and you can select
just too if you you know if you're going
to create a video and you know it's
going to be for the iPad you can just
simply click the iPad setting and you know
it will put in all the options that to
make it suitable for an ipad and but
i've already created some settings here and
there load up with some of the options
which i've pre-selected you have the
source button here basically opened up a
sheet and then that's where you select the
video that you've exported so once
you've found the export video if you
simply click on open and it all loaded
into the handbrake program next to it is
the start button that's going to start
the process of encoding it into the
format using the options that you select
later on and pause that can pause the
process when its exported add to the
queue and it's best to show the queue
first so bring up the queue window and
add to queue is what you're gonna do
last next one is the picture settings so
if you click on that you get some bit
you get some options up regarding the
picture settings now when you bring up
this window make sure you check the very
bottom of the main window the source
tells you the size of the source and
then the output you can see that the
output is selected for 720p so what we
need to do in the picture settings is
just change the width to 1080p and
it should automatically change the
height to 1080p then the next thing to
do is to make sure that there's going to
be no cropping select automatic and just
make sure that all these settings are zero, if any of
these settings change, custom if you click
on custom you know you can change the
settings if any of them change then
you'll notice that this number here
changes so as long as these two are the
same as these two you know that your
video is not going to be cropped so
we'll put that back to zero and automatic and
you can see that the values have changed
just make sure that anything you do you
just put back
so that the video is going to output
correctly that's all you basically need
to do in the picture settings window but
it is worth doing that as part of your
export and preparing your video is part
of the process the video codec has
already been selected for me the format
and this is the important part for
uploading to YouTube make sure that when
you set up your default settings that you
set up once you're familiar with the
program save your settings as a file as
a default set and the format here is very
important that you select MKV the frame
rate we just keep a frame the same as
the source and this section here i don't
really bother with this section but you
can alter if you really want to and
that's just basically to put a constant
quality now if you want to retain the
very best quality and basically just in
this slider like it says here and it
adjusts the encoder settings to trade off
between compression and you know the
quality of the video and how fast it's
going to encode it, so I it defaults to
fast but i mean i usually put it down to
medium just so that you retain more of
the quality of the output file that's
all you need to do in the videos tab but
the one of the important bits which is
related to an earlier section of the
video when you click on the Audio tab
just check these parts here because the
two bits that are going to be looking at
is the sample rate and the bit rate now
we know from earlier that the sample
rate of the video was at 48,000 hertz or
48 kilohertz and most computer devices
and and in fact cds and their default is
44.1 so like I was saying earlier audio is
often a very overlooked part of the
video when people make videos there's no
point in uploading anything with a sample
rate higher than 44.1
because the audio equipment that
ninety-nine percent of the people are
going to be listening to on simply can't
do anything higher than that so there's
literally no point in selecting anything
higher there's also for the opposite
reason because you lose quality there's
no point going below 44.1 that's
automatically going to reduce the size
of the audio track and therefore it's
going to reduce the overall size of the
file once it's been encoded by handbrake
also the bit rate it you want to knock
that down to 128 kilobits because
similarly like the sample rate, you know
you're not going to notice much of a
difference between a 160 and 128 on
most of the equipment that 99%
of the people are going to be listening to it on,
it doesn't affect the volume or the gain
of the audio track at all it's just
simply the the compression that's going
to be used and you know the bit rate's
going to down sample to so, change the
sample rate 44.1 and the bit rate to 128
kilobits and then your and and that
audio section the only two sections i
bother with is sample rate, bit rate in the audio
section and in the video
I've already set up a preset so that it
defaults to these settings but you know
just double check them and that's it you
know it but the important one for the
format is to compress it into an MKV
file and the reason for this is the the
YouTube servers if you upload an MKV
file it basically splits up file into
many parts and it distributes them throughout
several servers, or as many servers as it
thinks it needs and then when it comes
to processing the video you have many
many servers which are processing lots
of little chunks of the video and then
YouTube puts them all back together and
then that's the processing done for the
whole thing once you've done that like I
said the last button that you're going
to click as the add to queue
and then you see your file is added
obviously you could add many many many
files and you could just you could just
run them all at the same time so you
press Start and then at the bottom here
and show you the progress of the
encoding, obviously we are not gonna sit here
for five more minutes however it's going
to take so we'll come back when it's
finished and i'll show you the finished
product so once you've added the video
to the queue and you press Start and the
videos encoded and finished you'll see
that there's a green tick next to it and
it's multi-threaded and you can do it
for things whilst its running it you know
you can still work on your computer and
you can add more videos to the queue
which as you can see i did here and
these are just the screen recordings
which make up this video so if we look
at the exported file which we did from
the movie editor so this is the actual
raw file you'll see it has a file size
of 769.1 megabyte and then if we look
at the HandBrake optimised MKV file you'll
see that it has a size of a hundred and
eighty-nine megabyte
so it's obviously significant reduction
and if we just open up both of the
files now I do have some video effects
on VLC running so basically i'll just
switch those off and now
and we'll just look at the files
side-by-side so that's the original mp4
and this is the handbrake optimised file
and let's just go to a specific point in
the video there is not much difference
between them and obviously you can
fine-tune the settings and so that you
produce something is as close as you can
let's go to one minute into the video
and that's just look up and see if there
is much with the difference that should
be it shouldn't be a significant difference
so a difference which you're gonna notice
unless you really critical and you
really looking for it still seems to be
a video effect on here we just turn it
off so as you can see you know I mean
there's very little difference between
them if any but obviously this file size
is significantly smaller than the one
that you exported from the video editor
so i hope you found it very useful as
always and be safe be prepared and if
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Prepper signing off