I have some movies in my hd for my plex server and im running out of space, ive done everything that i could possibly imagine. Some movies are just 700mb and i want to slow it to 500 at least, but when i try yo do it with h265 it goes full to 1.75gb ???? Even if i chose the same preset as source. And for 4k movies it goes terribly heavy. From 6gb to 40gb!!! I thouth that using nvenc was a better choice to convert it but didnt work…

That thumbnail really freaked me out. I thought you were going to suggest people actually compress to that level.

I have a 1650S card with a 3800X CPU I tested different conditions You always seem to get better quality CPU output than NVENC Now I'm eager to test again, according to your review and result, I might have made a mistake somewhere, the amount of pressure on the CPU and the time it takes is too much, but according to your review, the difference was small. And it makes more sense to use NVENC I output videos in compression formats like ProRose MXF And I compress it with H264 codec in Handbrake to put it on my website server and display my products videos on the website. I tried very hard to maintain the MAXIMUM possible quality with the minimum Size I didn't use the RF settings because the bitrate fluctuation was too high Due to network limitations, I used bitret instead of RF, which has less bit rate fluctuations. For 720 with 25 frames of 3000 bitrate And for 1080 with a bit rate of 25 frames 7500

It is possible for Settings like Progressive scan (no interlacing). High profile. 2 consecutive B frames. Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate. CABAC. Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0. Make an educational video? Advanced options section Like bframes=2:ref=3:g=15:keyint_min=15:b-adapt=2:cabac=1

Thank you, it was wonderful

What about AMD gpus

Thanks a bunch!

very good videos, make more

@Anitomicals any chance of an update with recent updates and maybe AV1 comparison / 10 bit comparison?

very informative and thorough! Thanks!

With a quick experiment I tried with a 14.1 MB file Iphone recorded video. h265 CPU 30RF FAST result: 16 seconds 3 MB (encoding time and output size) h265 GPU 40CQ SLOWEST result: 6 seconds 2.965MB (encoding time and output size) almost the same file size but almost the same quality. Can't be notice when playing the video. BUT FASTER ENCODING. Even pausing it is almost unnoticeable unless you zoom in. this is for people who keep saying the Size is smaller for using CPU. Almost the same. but pausing will make some details noticeable.

So helpful! Thanks

You really did this? this is high quality analysis video for a 7K sub. keep up the good work!

1:04 i think its worth mentioning that older generations support hardware decode, but not encode

How to compress .mp4 to small size without loosing quality?

INCREDIBLE video my friend you literally showed what each of them do and also showing comparisons and graphs of how much difference they make unlike others who just say put it to 23 quality and let her rip😆🤣

incredible info

Very nice dude =). I use handbreake a long time... this is star info.

Very helpful, thank you

More than excelent perfect

Amazing video, but could you make one for av1?

This is the best video explain on youtube thanks man.

Still waiting for an update 🥴

4:55 Am I misunderstanding the video? How come it looks lower quality at ultra fast but the recommendation is to use ultra fast?

Thank man! What a exceptional video! 👏👏👏 Really thank you for that ❤

Great video, thank you!

if anyone in the future watches this AV1 will allow you to drop to 36 from 30 with darn near lossless footage - i had a 15.5GB file in h.265 compressed with AV1 3.36GB couldn't tell the difference with quailty AV1 is 1000times better than h265

The video was absolutely breathtaking! The information is very useful, and your time & effort is greatly appreciated! I'm going to leave a link in my blu-ray video to this video for compression advice!

Thani you so much. Now thar my RTX 4080 is doing it, its taking 1 hour instead of 6. Crazy! thank you so much!

This was surprisingly thorough. Well done

Fantastic - Informed - No BS

Great video! Clearly explained! This must have taken a lot of research and trail&error.

Exactly to the point. Clear and easy, thank you!

This video is pure gold. Thank you very much!!!

"Set audio coding to MP3" I heard enough... <facepalm>

So I did it with the method you show us but from 61 mb short move file it became 87mb

thx for this in depth vid. have a good day.

Well I probably won't re-encode my entire library with h265 understanding that moving forward will make a huge difference in what I choose to use. Thanks for the great information!

could you make a tutorial on how to use vmaf?

This video is extremely helpful! Thank you so much! Question: If Using Ultra Fast speed gives the worst quality why are you saying that we should use it?

dip it in, and get it out, and then u get all the high speed compression gremlins.

What also can be interesting for people trying to save the clips in as good of a quality as possible, without using up your Disk space is this: I'd like to my videos upscale to 8k (nearest neighbor) using ffmpeg and then upload it to youtube. Why 8k? Because it allows youtube to retain more quality because of the bitrate, and it also enforces youtube to use the AV1-Codec, which means more quality for the same bitrate or same quality with less bitrate. It works well with rec709 stuff, but It doesn't work on Videos with Log-Profiles. You'd have to colour grade your footage to make it work. I also use my Laptop GPU (RTX 4070 Mobile) to encode it directly to NVENC_AV1 (still at around 200mbit bitrate though), in order to get very good quality, smaller filesizes than with other codecs to reduce upload time. I also use a custom script to iterate through an entire folder including subfolders to re-encode videos. Now i just have to figure out how to upload them without actually being at my computer:

Great. What's the best setting for AV1 code.?

this is the most informative video i have ever seen on video compression, amazing work, love it.

i've got a probl the n vidia encode never exist on my handbrake

Just wanted to say thanks -- I've been using Handbrake for over a decade, but defaults and the occasional experimentation was fine. Was unaware of hardware encoding. And was getting really fed up with all the youtube videos that only make big Handbrake claims, but basically just show you how to download it, pick a preset, and hit go. Your video is very in-depth, insightful, and useful.

Never ever use MP3 for anything. It's been outdated since the late 90s. AAC has the same compatibility and much higher quality. For extreme size savings OPUS is a great choice too

My goodness... Thank you for this gem. Commenting to help the KZbin algorithm recommend this fantastic tutorial!

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