#HANDBRAKE VIDEO CONVERTER FORUMS MP4#

MP4 should contain only h.26x video and aac or mp3 audio codecs and it's the most recommendable AV format. Especially AVI and MKV can be really complicated to make properly, because they can contain several kinds of different video and audio codecs.

#HANDBRAKE VIDEO CONVERTER FORUMS FREE#

Even the free version is absolutely usable, and it's a fully fledged, professional, multi-platform video editor.Ī word of advice, though: MP4, MKV, MOV, Webm, and AVI are container video formats that can contain a different kind of multiplexed audio and video codecs. If you need a video editor, you don't have to look any further then Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve. If you need a proper DVD to MP4 converter then Handbrake is the king regardless the GUI, and it's free, and multiplatform.

There is a successor to this really popular video editor called VirtualDub2 here.

#HANDBRAKE VIDEO CONVERTER FORUMS WINDOWS#

I personally use Recode and good old VirtualDub which can cut out unwanted scenes from a video losslessly, and encode video easily in a VBox VM Windows 7.

Make it smaller or upload it somewhere else and give a link.If you need a simple 'many formats' to 'many formats' converter then I recommend ' Xmedia Recode' which is very fast and easy to work with. This appears to be a bug? Display size is 730 x 552 with 'Strict' Anamorphic on (when Width = 720 & Height = 544 and cropping as stated & 'Keep Aspect Ratio' is on) - I'm not sure how those numbers are arrived at?!įinally, does 'Height' & 'Width' refer to the actual image dimensions of the encoded video or will the image dimensions of the encoded video actually be the cropped (source) size of 684 x 552 (so no 'resizing' other than being cropped)?Įdit remark: Your pic is way too big (in resolution). If I then switch to 'None' Anamorphic the H & W do then adjust automatically and the values are locked in when I again switch to 'Strict' Anamorphic. If I increase the cropping values H & W don't actually change any further. With 'Strict' Anamorphic on, HandBrake says the Width = 720 & Height = 544. Crop settings are now L14, R22, T10, B14 that reduces the image to 684 x 552. I've attached a screenshot of my proposed settings. Thanks guys, I'll try the strict anamorphic - and adjust the cropping by 2 pixels.ĭo I need to tick 'Keep Aspect Ratio' or will that defeat the purpose? I am archiving these old videos for reference. I understand what a ref frame is but not a B frame, anyone? Are 3 & 3 appropriate values for these settings? - I can't say I have the time (conv very slow on my old laptop) or experience to determine otherwise. I have set ref frames to 3 and B frames to 3. When I tried constant quality (CQ = 20) the quality was comparable but the filesize was x3! I have looked at the HandBrake help and I am more confused! SARs, PARs & DARs!įYI, I am encoding using VBR at 2500kbps that produces good quality output.

I have tried a couple of options (with no re-size) and the video seems to be displaying at approx 5:4 in Windows media classic even though when I inspect the file via MediaInfo the video stream says 684 x 554 (4:3), however, any reference to the source being 5:4 appears to be lost. I'd appreciate if someone can advise and provide the numbers/settings I should use (and include the maths so I understand for future reference. Do I rely on resizing the image during conversion to a 4:3 ratio so it is then implicit in the H x V size ratios? Or, do I not resize and somehow just set the height/width/PAR values appropriately (and 'Keep Aspect Ratio') to get the video to display correctly at 4:3? It seems to me if I do this (the crop) there is no way to record/register that the image actually has a 5:4 source format. Fundamentally the pixel ratio (if that's the right term) remains at 5:4 as the video image has only been cropped. If I trim the rough black borders (poor VHS) the video size is reduced to 684 x 554 (so sits between 5:4 and 4:3).

#HANDBRAKE VIDEO CONVERTER FORUMS TRIAL#

I have done some trial conversions using HandBrake (Windows) to convert to MPEG4 AVC (video)/AAC (sound track) and these are successful but. The VOB/MPEG2 video size is 720 x 576 (5:4) and are for display at 4:3 ratio (on TV). I have transferred some old (interlaced) VHS tapes to DVD (via a DVD/HDD recorder).

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