How to Compress Video without Losing Quality | Handbrake Tutorial

[00:00] Today we'll look how to compress video

[00:01] files. This can be a very important step

[00:03] when uploading your video to a social

[00:05] media platform with a file size limit.

[00:07] The tool we'll use is called Handbreak.

[00:09] I'm here on the website. It's

[00:10] Handbreak.fr. I'll leave a link in the

[00:12] description below. It's a free and open

[00:14] source tool with a great reputation. And

[00:16] best of all, it's available on all major

[00:18] platforms, Windows, Mac, and Linux. I'm

[00:20] on Windows, so let's install it for

[00:22] that. Here, I'll click download

[00:23] Handbreak 1.92 installer, and I'll click

[00:26] on the file name here. I'll save it to

[00:27] my computer. Now to install it, I'll

[00:30] just double click on the executable

[00:31] here. I'll give it permission to install

[00:33] and I'll click finish. Now to run

[00:35] Handbreak, I'll just click the icon

[00:37] here. And you can see on Windows I get

[00:39] this message about installing thenet

[00:40] runtime. So I'll press a button that

[00:42] says download it now. And what I found

[00:44] is that you have to install the version

[00:45] 8 runtime of.net even if you have a

[00:48] later version. So I'm going to download

[00:49] this installer. I can see it's from

[00:50] microsoft.com. I'll press save and let's

[00:53] install the net 8. I'll press install.

[00:57] And when it's all done, I'll press

[00:58] close. Now, if I go back to Handbreak

[01:00] and run it, it actually starts. So,

[01:03] let's open up the file we want to

[01:04] convert. We can open up a batch of files

[01:06] here, but I just want to do one. I could

[01:08] drag it onto this middle area, but I'll

[01:09] just click open video files here, and

[01:11] I'll go to my temp folder. Now, I have

[01:13] this movie file here that I want to

[01:14] compress, and it's actually 1.39 GB. So,

[01:17] let's see how small we can get this.

[01:19] I'll press open.

[01:21] And now, we have the different settings

[01:22] we can use to compress it. Now, the good

[01:24] news is we can pretty much just use the

[01:26] default settings. The main preset here

[01:28] is fast 1080p 30, but you can choose

[01:30] other ones if you want, but I'm just

[01:32] going to leave it like that. You can see

[01:33] the format will be MP4. I'm going to

[01:35] click web optimized. That means the MP4

[01:37] file can be streamed immediately when

[01:39] someone views it on the web. There's

[01:41] other options here on the tabs you can

[01:42] choose to adjust if you like. Under

[01:44] video for frame rate, I just like to

[01:46] choose the top option, same as source,

[01:48] but you can make it lower if you want.

[01:50] Let's go back to the summary. Down here

[01:51] under save as, we can choose the

[01:53] destination. Let me click browse. I'll

[01:55] put it in the same folder here. I'll

[01:57] call it astronauts compressed.

[01:59] I'll press save. One cool feature is

[02:01] that you can choose what Handbreak will

[02:02] do after it's finished running. You can

[02:04] make it close itself or even log off

[02:06] your computer, but I'm just going to

[02:07] have it do nothing. And now I'm going to

[02:08] press start encode. So it's going to

[02:11] start compressing our file. You can see

[02:13] the elapse time down here. And now we

[02:16] have our compressed file output here.

[02:17] And you can see it's only 25.9

[02:19] megabytes. And when we run it, the

[02:22] quality looks great.

[02:24] This would be perfect for posting

[02:25] online. So check out this tool at

[02:27] handbreak.fr.