How To Compress Mp4 Files With Handbrake

Fortunately, with Handbrake, you can shrink big video files down to smaller ones; more will fit, and you binge watch longer! The simple truth is, device storage costs a pretty penny. It's not because it costs more to manufacture, after all you can pick up a 32GB micro SD card for anywhere from $15 to $25.

• Compress Mp4 Files For Emails
• How To Compress Mp4 Windows

• What makes HandBrake so powerful is how it can encode MP4 files with the H.264 codec. It uses an open-source encoder known as x264. If that sounds a little confusing, to put it simply, HandBrake can compress MP4 files better than most other encoders.
• Select the file you want to compress and click Open. Destination: Select where you want the transcoded video file to be saved by clicking Browse In Save As, give the file an appropriate name such as ' (Original-Filename)- h264.mp4' so that you know which version is the one you have compressed.

Handbrake is an open-source application that allows you to compress videos and convert them to MP4 format. We recommend using Handbrake to help better manage file storage and slow internet upload speeds.

Once the video file has been compressed, it can be uploaded into SalesHood to be optimized, then compressed for the best user experience on all supported browsers and mobile.

* We recommend to keep and use the standard settings as they are in the Handbrake app.

Please follow these steps to use Handbrake to compress your video file…

Step 1: Download the Handbrake app onto your computer (https://handbrake.fr/)

Step 2: Click the Handbrake app on your computer to open

Step 3: Opening the app will automatically open the destination folder where your file will be located, or you will be able to click on Open Source to access it. Choose the video you'd like to compress.

Step 4: Select the Destination where the new compressed video will be downloaded into.

Step 5: From the Format drop-down, select MP4 File. This will convert your video to MP4. You can make sure it's been implemented by looking at the Destination File name.

Step 6: Check the Web optimized box because your video will be uploaded online.

Step 7: When you've customized all the settings to your liking and are ready to start the compression, click the Start button and your video will begin to compress. You can track the encoding progress at the bottom. (Depending on the video size, the encoding process can take a little longer.)

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When the video is done compressing, you will be notified with a message. You'll be able to find your compressed video in the destination folder you assigned!

Part 1 - How to Use Handbrake to Compress Video with Lossless Quality

As we have mentioned above, video compression codec is the key to reduce video esp. arge-sized 1080p/4K/8K UHD video without quality loss. Yet, which video codec is the best for you to compress 1080p HD or 4K/8K UHD videos while keeping the original quality? The answer is HEVC (H265). With higher coding efficiency (thanks to coding tree unit, enhanced Quantization and entropy coding), HEVC (x265) can achieve 50% higher compression ratio than H264 and 20% higher compression ratio than VP9 while keeping the same quality or even better quality than the input video. It's no exaggeration to say that HEVC is a lossless video codec for video compression.

Here we use Handbrake 1.1.0 to compress video to H265 and test if HEVC can live up to its promise to resize 4K video and 1080p HD video at 50%﹢compression ratio. The input video we use is an H264 encoded MP4 1080p video at 23.98FPS, 38 minutes in length and 1.22GB in file size. And the lossless video compression test is conducted on a Windows 7 computer with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU and 8GB RAM. The specific operational process and result are below:

Step 1: Import MP4 (H264) Video.
Fire up Handbrake 1.1.0 after the download and installation are finished. Drop a file or folder to Handbrake or load MP4 1080p video via 'File' option .

Step 2: Choose Output Format and Preset.
Select 'MP4' as output format and 'Apple 1080p30 Surround' as output preset.

Step 3: Opt for H265 as Video Codec.
Click 'Video' option and choose H265 (x265), H265 (10 bit) or H265 (12 bit) as video codec. BTW: to know the difference between H265 10 bit and H265 12 bit, you can check the explaination of color depth to know more.

Step 4: Compress H264 to H265 Now.
Tap 'Start Encode' button and this free video compressor will begin to compress MP4 (H264) to H265 (x265) video at Intel QSV hardware accelerated speed (enable it from 'Preferences').

Several mins later, the H264 to H265 (x265) compression, as well as H264 to H265 10 bit/12 bit compression is accomplished. The output file size and quality results are listed below:

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From the test data, it's clear to see that HEVC (H265) does an amazing job in video compression with 55% compression ratio to reduce H264 size from 1.22GB to 565MB while keeping the untouched quality. Of course, there is also a downside in HEVC. That is time consuming in HEVC video encoding using Handbrake (Intel QSV hardware decoding enabled), which might discourage lots of users from using Handbrake to compress H264 to H265.

If you do wanna compress H264 to H265 for smaller file size and better quality at the precondition of time saving, then you can consider to use the top Handbrake alternative - MacX Video Converter Pro. It's a professional HEVC video converter, built-in with Intel QSV/Nvidia/AMD hardware acceleration techs to help you not only hardware decode H264 video, but also hardware encode H264 to H265 (HEVC) at 5-8X faster speed than Handbrake. Thus, you can compress this H264 1080p video to HEVC (x265) with only 12 mins 42 seconds.

Note: the biggest difference among H265 (x265), H265 10 bit and H265 12 bit is the output image quality. To put it simply, H265 12 bit performs a little bit better than H265 10 bit and H265 8 bit in video quality without color banding or color dithering. Therefore, you're suggested to choose H265 12 bit or H265 10 bit if your video playback device supports such color depth in HEVC codec.

HEVC Limitations: Currently HEVC (H265) is nowhere near as popular as H264 (MPEG-4 AVC). So if the video playback device or platform doesn't support HEVC codec, you're supposed to choose H264 codec for 1080p/4K/8K video compression. Check the hardware requirements on HEVC decoding & playback.