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#How to compress a video in handbrake mp4#
The easiest and least painfull way probably is splitting the material over two dvds. HandBrake is a free program that can be used to compress and prepare MP4 videos for upload to Vimeo. if your tapes are homevideos or other unique materials, i am afraid that what you have is the best you are likely to get, in image quality as well as in filesize.
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If your vhs tapes are recorded tv shows or movies, i would try to find better source material. if that is not an option, you could use codec parameters such as denoising, which are present in handbrake, to smoothen the image and thereby save filesize, but will again reduce image quality.
#How to compress a video in handbrake software#
You could invest big money in acquiring a top notch video recorder (which are ever harder to find), to get a few percent better video quality out of your tapes when digitalizing, but thats hardly worth it in most cases (dont believe any adds that offer vhs cleaning or repair, be it software or hardware, its usually BS). moving from analog media (vhs) to digital media (dvds) was a giant leap, much more so than from dvd to bluray, in my opinion. the resolution should be the same, but the general image quality differs by miles. if you have a chance, compare the vhs and dvd of the same material, and you will see the difference. the average vhs recorder, especially when being several decades old, is by no means able to get any proper quality out of a tape, which is not such a great medium to begin with. The key for vhs is the process of digitalizing. i myself encode bluray movies to 1/20 of the original size with good image quality using handbrake. they usually are very lowly compressed, which leaves converter programs a big wiggle room. In general it is true, that handbrake (utilizing the new h265 codec) can reduce the filesize of a video dramatically without significant quality loss, but that goes only for high quality input material, such as dvd or blurays. improving the quality of such a video on the pc, with whatever program or codec, is a nightmare. Vhs, when digitalized, offer a very poor video quality as well as a generally very grainy, noisy picture, not to mention artifacts, deinterlacing etc. I have been working with handbrake and h265 as well as with digitalizing vhs extensively, and my experience is this: