The thing is, Shichao has always had the habit of hoarding movies and TV series to the hard disk, and it is also the kind that is not downloaded in non-HD, not downloaded in the non-full version, and wants to simply go down to the next entire series.
Like Harry Potter, Twilight, Chainsaw Horror, Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and other very classic and popular films and television works in recent years, I basically put down.
You don't have to say that hoarding movies is really a bit cool, no matter whether there is time to watch in the future, just looking at the hard disk full of film and television resources, you will have a sense of satisfaction, and hoarding is not too much ~
But just a while ago, my 8T hard disk was finally stuffed by me, and I wanted to delete some resources to make room but I was reluctant to delete it, so I wondered if there was any way to reduce the size of the video.
After trying out mediacoder, komaru toolbox, format factory, WisMenCoder and other well-known video processing tools one by one, I ended up with only one piece of software, which was HandBrake:
How strong is this software to compress videos?
Basically, a video that was originally more than ten GB or even forty or fifty GB in size, after its compression, the volume can be reduced to about a few GIGabytes, and the picture quality can be basically consistent with the original video!
Poor friends can simply compare the following two videos, one of the video size is 32.3GB, the other is only 0.97GB, I don't know if you can tell which is before compression and which is after compression?
To tell the truth, if I don't know in advance which is the original video, I really can't see any difference between the two from the picture quality.
I know that at this time, some people will definitely say that I am compressing the animation, and the animation elements are relatively single.
So let's take a look at the following two videos, one of which is 14GB in size and the other 3.85GB, I don't know if you can see which video occupies a larger volume?
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One thing to say, although the video compressed by HandBrake is lossy compression, I am very satisfied that it can have such an effect, at least I can not see at a glance where it is lost.
In addition, for the videos we take with our mobile phones, after compression by HandBrake, it can actually make a lot of space, and basically the larger the video, the more obvious the compression effect:
Frankly speaking, in a number of video tools, HandBrake is actually not very strong, for example, as far as many up masters I know, they are using more professional MediaCoder:
But it strikes a balance of functionality and ease of use, which is very rare.
To put it bluntly, it is not as rich in functions as it is, richer than it is not as easy to use, and most importantly, it is also a cross-platform, open source free software without any ads.
When you first start using the app, you may be confused when you see its interface.
It doesn't matter, as long as you know a few key settings, you can compress the video yourself.
After HandBrake opens the video you want to compress, the first thing we have to do is pick a compression preset that it prepares for us.
Usually the time required to compress a video is not short, so I usually choose the preset "Very Fast 1080p30":
This default default is to compress the video to 1080p, if your video resolution is not 1080p, then you need to change the resolution in the resolution limit under the size options:
This is followed by choosing the video encoder, frame rate, and picture quality.
By default I will choose H.264 to encode it, this encoding output video format is basically compatible with all devices, the frame rate is selected the same as the original video, and the quality selects its default to our 24:
After setting the previous parameters, click Start Coding, you will see that your CPU has begun to output at full strength, at this time the speed of video compression depends entirely on your computer's CPU and GPU configuration:
If you want the compressed video quality to be as close as possible to lossless, you can adjust the value of RF to a smaller amount in the fixed quality area, the smaller the value, the better the quality, but correspondingly, the volume will be larger:
In general, HandBrake does not allow the compressed video to exceed the original resolution, so it usually does not occur that the compressed video is larger than the original video.
If you want to upload the video to the B station, etc., there is a specification for the video bitrate, and the video exceeding this bitrate will go through the secondary compression platform, you can manually set an average bitrate in the average bitrate below.
That way, the videos you upload won't be recompressed by these platforms.
In addition to compressing video, HandBrake can actually achieve video cropping, transcoding, audio encoding, transcoding, and other functions, which you need to explore yourself.
At the end of the article, the download link of this free and open source video processing tool is put here, and friends in need can download it by themselves: