[0:00] Today we'll look how to compress video
[0:01] files. This can be a very important step
[0:03] when uploading your video to a social
[0:05] media platform with a file size limit.
[0:07] The tool we'll use is called Handbreak.
[0:09] I'm here on the website. It's
[0:10] Handbreak.fr. I'll leave a link in the
[0:12] description below. It's a free and open
[0:14] source tool with a great reputation. And
[0:16] best of all, it's available on all major
[0:18] platforms, Windows, Mac, and Linux. I'm
[0:20] on Windows, so let's install it for
[0:22] that. Here, I'll click download
[0:23] Handbreak 1.92 installer, and I'll click
[0:26] on the file name here. I'll save it to
[0:27] my computer. Now to install it, I'll
[0:30] just double click on the executable
[0:31] here. I'll give it permission to install
[0:33] and I'll click finish. Now to run
[0:35] Handbreak, I'll just click the icon
[0:37] here. And you can see on Windows I get
[0:39] this message about installing thenet
[0:40] runtime. So I'll press a button that
[0:42] says download it now. And what I found
[0:44] is that you have to install the version
[0:45] 8 runtime of.net even if you have a
[0:48] later version. So I'm going to download
[0:49] this installer. I can see it's from
[0:50] microsoft.com. I'll press save and let's
[0:53] install the net 8. I'll press install.
[0:57] And when it's all done, I'll press
[0:58] close. Now, if I go back to Handbreak
[1:00] and run it, it actually starts. So,
[1:03] let's open up the file we want to
[1:04] convert. We can open up a batch of files
[1:06] here, but I just want to do one. I could
[1:08] drag it onto this middle area, but I'll
[1:09] just click open video files here, and
[1:11] I'll go to my temp folder. Now, I have
[1:13] this movie file here that I want to
[1:14] compress, and it's actually 1.39 GB. So,
[1:17] let's see how small we can get this.
[1:19] I'll press open.
[1:21] And now, we have the different settings
[1:22] we can use to compress it. Now, the good
[1:24] news is we can pretty much just use the
[1:26] default settings. The main preset here
[1:28] is fast 1080p 30, but you can choose
[1:30] other ones if you want, but I'm just
[1:32] going to leave it like that. You can see
[1:33] the format will be MP4. I'm going to
[1:35] click web optimized. That means the MP4
[1:37] file can be streamed immediately when
[1:39] someone views it on the web. There's
[1:41] other options here on the tabs you can
[1:42] choose to adjust if you like. Under
[1:44] video for frame rate, I just like to
[1:46] choose the top option, same as source,
[1:48] but you can make it lower if you want.
[1:50] Let's go back to the summary. Down here
[1:51] under save as, we can choose the
[1:53] destination. Let me click browse. I'll
[1:55] put it in the same folder here. I'll
[1:57] call it astronauts compressed.
[1:59] I'll press save. One cool feature is
[2:01] that you can choose what Handbreak will
[2:02] do after it's finished running. You can
[2:04] make it close itself or even log off
[2:06] your computer, but I'm just going to
[2:07] have it do nothing. And now I'm going to
[2:08] press start encode. So it's going to
[2:11] start compressing our file. You can see
[2:13] the elapse time down here. And now we
[2:16] have our compressed file output here.
[2:17] And you can see it's only 25.9
[2:19] megabytes. And when we run it, the
[2:22] quality looks great.
[2:24] This would be perfect for posting
[2:25] online. So check out this tool at
[2:27] handbreak.fr.