handbrake best settings for compress

[tomsta79]

hi there does any one have the best settings for handbrake to shrink the video size down with out loss of Quality.. tired loads of others with out Success

[mike20021969]

Try Normal preset with Constant Quality option with a value of 18.

[deadrats]

if you're shrinking video you will lose quality. try the following to minimize:

under "advanced"
sub pixel motion est - 11
motion est method - uneven
motion range - 24
trellis - always
adaptive b-frames - fast
max b-frames - 16
reference frames - 16
pyramid b - off
cabac, 8x8 - one
weighted p - on
partition - none
no dct decimate - on
deblocking -2, -2
rate distortion off
psy trellis off

a few beers, diner with a friend and an hour glass because it's going to take forever.

[aymanalz]

hi there does any one have the best settings for handbrake to shrink the video size down with out loss of Quality.. tired loads of others with out Success

You will have to specify what sort of video you are trying to convert - HD/DVD/normal quality, Film/Animation etc.

Also, how much fast your computer is, and what amount of time you want to spend on the encode. Generally, if you are willing to spend a longer time encoding, you will get better quality for the same bitrate - ie, better quality for a specific filesize.

Since I don't know the details of your machine or what you are trying to encode, and assuming you don't want to spend several days encoding one film, these are my recommendations:

1) Under "video", assuming you want to specify avge bitrate, select 2-pass encoding, and also turbo first pass (skip turbo if you have a very fast CPU).

Under "advanced":

1) Reference frames : 6-12 (Higher values if you have a very high quality video to start with, or for animated content. Handbrake itself recommends only upto 6.)

2) Max B-frames : 5-8 (Go higher for animation)

3) Select CABAC, 8x8 and Weighted P-frames.

4) Pyr B frames: strict

5) Adaptive B-frames: Optimal

6) Ad dir mode: optimal

7) Sub pixel motion estimation: 9

8) Motion estimation method: Uneven multi hexagon (Try the higher ones only if you have an insanely fast CPU.)

9) Motion estimation range: 16 is fine for most videos. Go higher for very high resolution video. Going above 32 provides no apparent benefit, and slows down encode considerably.

10) Partition type: Always.

11) Trellis: Encode only or always, depending on whether you are prepared to spend a little more time on the encode.

These are the general recommendations I can give to balance quality, filesize and encode time. Encode time is usually my last priority.

[InnkeeperX86]

I have a large video file that I am trying to edit in a software called MAGIX Move Edit Pro 13.

Here are it's specs according to MediaInfo:

LGeneral
Unique ID : 203655723951095846397162251992225339872 (0x9936AA6BFDF5C593A96D731D6A84D9E0)
Complete name : C:\Users\User\Desktop\PROM.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 8.41 GiB
Duration : 2h 3mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 9 733 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-09-16 07:31:01
Writing application : mkvmerge v6.2.0 ('Promised Land') built on Apr 28 2013 12:22:01
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 3mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 8 814 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.239
Stream size : 7.31 GiB (87%)
Writing library : x264 core 65 r1066M 045ae40
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=8814 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 3mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 567 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 3mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 397 MiB (5%)
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : Spanish
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 5
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

I try importing the file to MAGIX, but it won't work, so I want to re-encode it with Handbreak with minimal quality loss and was wondering what settings I should use.

When I tried it, I ran into some visual problems (according to a friend): "I'm sure you can see for yourself the quality issues if you watch the video full screen. There are multiple times (usually when the scene is dark and there is a single source or multiple small sources of light) you will see a lot of "banding" (areas that are usually circular or strips and uniform in color) and blockiness in the background of many scenes -- these are compression artifacts most probably due to upscaling to the higher resolution, and/or doing multiple encodes using a highly compressed codec (h264). There are also places where the darkness level abruptly changes from darker to lighter (and then back to darker sometimes). That is probably due to the double encode, or just a problem with the MAGIX MP4 encoder..."

Are there any settings in handbreak that I can select that would help combat these issues when re-encoding this particular file. Again, I want to re-encode it, with minimal quality loss, obviously hopefully avoiding any of the video issues mentioned above.