However, filming that important moment can produce a massive file that is unwieldy for sending through social media services which require to compress video files for the uploading in most of the cases. Step 7.Wonderful innovations in smartphone and camera technology mean most of us now carry a high-powered HD camera in our pockets. Add or remove Subtitles as per your wish.Select Codec “AAC (avcodec)”, select “Bitrate” and keep it to 160 or lower for mobile devices.

Keep Encoder Preset Slider to “Veryfast”, and select Encoder Tune “Film”, Encoder Profile “Main” and Encoder Level “4.0”.Check “Constant Quality” and keep the RF Slider between 21-25, no more, no less.Select Codec “x264”, Framerate “Same as Source” and check “Variable Framerate”.Select “NLMeans” Denoise with preset “Ultralight” and Tune “None”.Or check “Automatic”, whichever works for you. Check Cropping “Custom” and make all values 0, if you don’t wish to crop your video.For mobile devices, I recommend a max resolution of 720p, which translates to a width of 1280 pixels for my input file (big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mp4). Select Anamorphic “Loose” and Modulus “2”.To batch encode all videos in a particular folder, click on “Folder” and navigate to the desired path. Import your video files to transcode by either dragging and dropping the file or clicking on “File” and navigating to the desired path. Without further ado, lets get started: Step 1: Open Handbrake The detailed explanation of all the settings used in this tutorial can be found in my other articles on Handbrake(Links given at the bottom). This tutorial will get you acquainted with Handbrake and how you can use it to reduce the file size of large videos in a few minutes. Storing uncompressed large video files on such a device isn’t logical and is IMHO, downright stupid. This can prove especially useful to those who want to store lots of videos in devices with a limited storage capacity. In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show you how to compress videos using the free open-source tool Handbrake.

Handbrake video compressor