Best Optimal Handbrake Settings to convert 4K BLURAY to H.265 HEVC on Mac Windows Linux - JULY 2023

[@derinvanderspoel990]

Your guides produce excellent results and I'm very happy with how the encodes turn out. Using both your settings for 1080p rips and 4k rips. Thanks for making it so easy!

[@thewebernets]

Glad the videos were useful for you

[@stickboy8219]

Do you use these settings for both 4K and 1080p

[@ProfessionalReferences]

thank you!! i couldnt find the color space filter by myself.. you are a life saver

[@thewebernets]

You're welcome!!

[@irgendwie-tobi]

Perfect tutorial. I used the transcoded video on my jellyfin server. Works great with intel transcoding. Only downside to this method is, like you said, that ist takes AGES to transcode 4K movies. Mine took over 26 hours on my potato workstation. Still, totally worth it.

[@thewebernets]

Glad it helped!

[@Qwertystick]

I use it on Mac but I follow your steps and I see very good results. Thank you so much for sharing with us!

[@thewebernets]

Glad you found it useful

[@Qwertystick]

@@thewebernets Absolutely!

[@PaulLittlefield]

Great video, clear instructions and clear audio - thanks. I'm revisiting HandBrake after years of using ffmpeg cli on its own and also using Tdarr with HandBrake. TIP - instead of using a separate program to slice a sample size of the movie, just choose the 'Chapters' option to only do 1 chapter. 🙂

[@thewebernets]

Glad you liked the video

[@TheDigitalGuerrilla]

I trust Michael Caine when we talk about media encoding

[@thewebernets]

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[@realityengine]

I can’t unhear it now and now I want to watch dirty rotten scoundrels.

[@k10_tech_nibba]

I use average bit rate option over constant quality slider.. Because it gives me more control over the bit rate. Excellent video man, thanks.

[@thewebernets]

Yeah I used to do that as well. But after hundreds of hours of experimenting I found with constant quality that some frames actually don't need as much compression as I was assigning using a fixed bit rate, therefore I could get smaller file sizes. Something to think about, and I'm glad you like the video. Thanks for commenting.

[@sirchewiee]

I would say thats good if you're trying to get a standard file size between movies or want to force it to be a certain size. If not then variable bitrate should give a better image

[@GieleSipel]

Thank you for the video, very helpful!

[@thewebernets]

glad you found it useful

[@marcinabonski292]

Great video! I think it would be worth to add in a future revision that for people using Nvidia graphic cards, changing Video Encoder to H.265 10bit (NVEnc) can greatly reduce encoding times. In my case from over 5 hours (on 8core 16 thread Zen3 CPU) it went down to 28 minutes (RTX 4090). Tried same file on my secondary PC (i7 7700 and RTX 2080) and it took 54 minutes with NVEnc. Huge time and electricity saving on that one :)

[@thewebernets]

Glad you like the video. I don't own a compatible graphics card, so I am reluctant to suggest things I am unable to fully test and understand. I have heard this can also affect the output file size, but again I have not been able to confirm. It would be an interesting experiment to use exactly the same settings with NVEnc being the only variation. Might have to invest in one...

[@Tru3Tech]

Nvenc very fast but the file size is 2x or more compared to x265 at the same crf. x265 is very slow but you get the smallest file size. So in conclusion it depends what do you want, to encode your movies fast, and sometimes get some bad frames or do you want the smallest file size and leave you pc at night to encode your movies@@thewebernets

[@MattLoC84]

I saw this mid-rip and stopped it to try it out. With my RTX4080 and a movie that was about to take 45 mins following the videos instructions only took a little over 8 minutes with the Nvidia encoder. Thank you for saving me a tremendous amout of time!

[@BrokenChalice]

I can’t speak to the NVidia encoder cuz I have the AMD encoder. I tested Back To The Future 2 using these H.265 settings as well as the AMDenc using the same settings. H.265 was a 3 Hour encode while AMD Enc was a little under 40 minutes. The file sizes for both were under 10 GB but the AMD Enc has a larger file size by about 3-4 gbs. The quality seems to suffer on the AMD Enc too probably cuz it’s so fast. Seems like it’s a trade off. Speed vs Quality and Smaller Sized files.

[@Darkk6969]

@@BrokenChalice If you want the best quality and smallest size then always use CPU option (non-gpu). It's slower but it gives you the best results. Nice thing about Handbrake is that you can batch these jobs so you can let it run overnight.

[@Blinksy11]

Excellent, thank you!

[@thewebernets]

Thanks for watching!

[@skevenshow]

Mate what a fundamental information! I really appreciate your efforts to share this, it helped me alot. Thank you🙏

[@thewebernets]

Glad you found it useful!

[@TheF1rstOne]

Thank you very much for your guides they are very useful :) Do you have any plans to tackle rather “special” material in the future? Like old, very grainy movies or settings for Cartoons / Anime ?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, thanks for your message. I have no plans for these types of tutorials as I don't typically consume that content.

[@keepingitreal601]

Brillant video, keep up the great work.

[@thewebernets]

Glad you like it!

[@adamedghill]

spot on!, thank you very much :)

[@thewebernets]

You are very welcome!

[@ytdlder]

Great video, thanks! But you should add a text-box to mention that currently, most Handbrake filters are 8-bit only, meaning if one wants to use HDR, you have to disable those. Like Deinterlace!

[@HereAfterNow]

Im not sure what you mean, can you elaborate please?

[@ytdlder]

@@HereAfterNow Handbrake filters like Denoise, Lapsharp, ... are only 8bit. That means, if you got a 10bit video (UHD HDR), then you must not use such filters. Usually, that's not a problem, as UHDs are of course quite high-quality; but not all. Especially those remastered from older movies would usually greatly benefit from those two filters.

[@thewebernets]

Thanks for your comment. 4K Bluray and UHD vids these days seem to be all progressive, and with these settings if interlacing is not detected, Handbrake doesn't try to apply any filters, so it is not really an issue.

[@ytdlder]

@@thewebernets sweet, didn't know that. Cheers!

[@Vomzent]

Damm 65 GiB source file down to just 3 GiB, thats an insane amount of saved storage. Thank you very much for the video

[@thewebernets]

Glad you had success and found the video useful!

[@stickboy8219]

Did you lose much quality or is the quality the same ?

[@RaiderClassics]

Great videos on the encoding with handbrake. Will you be doing videos w/ Shutter Encoder (my personal favorite)?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I am glad you like the videos. I am not familiar with that program, but will make sure to check it out.

[@RaiderClassics]

@@thewebernets It’s my personal favorite. I feel like the encodes come out more colorful & vibrant without adjusting anything to the visualization. I think you’ll find it really interesting. 👍🏼

[@lgmnowkondo938]

What are the meanings of the extra settings pasted into the video tab?

[@thewebernets]

Check the description of the video for a breakdown of the code

[@rahulislive-u7u]

Is there anyway to know the estimated file size like in the premiere pro app but adobe's app doesn't open the file it shows unsupported compression format no matter what i do i have tried so many solutions. I'm using handbrake is there any way to know the estimated file size after encoding? How much would it be?

[@thewebernets]

Hmmm. If you want to know the file size after encoding you can right click on it and select properties, or Get Info if you are on a Mac, or use MediaInfo. Im assuming you mean the estimated file size BEFORE encoding. I don't think there is an accurate method, and even Premiere Pro's Media Encoder gets it wrong usually. Every frame has a different level of compressability. You will find an episode of the Family Guy will always compress considerably more than an episode of your favourite sitcom of the same duration. Handbrake doesn't know what kind of video it is compressing, so it can't really tell you with any accuracy what the final file size will be.

[@rahulislive-u7u]

@@thewebernets Thank You

[@wipo86]

thanks from cuba

[@thewebernets]

glad you found it useful!

[@yannisgk]

hi from greece!!!

[@THRobinson]

Should note that using BT.709 to convert the HDR10 video will result in a slightly dimmer, less saturated video. It does a decent job converting, but the end results will like a bit dull if not properly converted using other software.

[@thewebernets]

That is true - what software do you recommend for proper conversion?

[@YiyaMurano_deMontserrat]

@@thewebernets davinci resolve select input wide gamut hdr and output color sdr rec 709

[@AndySomething]

This is a great and useful video! Thank you for making it. I really appreciate the explanations of the advanced settings in the video description. I have the video saved in a playlist and I will come back to it when I get around to encoding 4k remux's. I'm currently just encoding 1080p blu ray remux's at the moment. The end file size you got for your 4k remux is better than most of my 1080p encodes lol. I have some questions regarding some settings choices if you have some free time and don't mind answering. 1. You left cropping to Automatic. I've been doing Conservative. I think there is a very minor difference between them but just wondered if there was a reason you didn't go Conservative. 2. You done h265 for video encoder. What's your thoughts on AV1? I know h265 is better supported currently but perhaps long term it'll get better and maybe space savings over h265? 3. You chose constant frame rate over variable. Could that not be an issue for a film like Avatar: The way of water, which I believe changes frame rate during scenes? 4. In the audio tab you set the sample rate to 48. I have been wondering what the sample rate means, but I can't actually find an answer to this in any forums.

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Im glad you like the video. 1 - Handbrake has become so good at cropping these days I don't see any reason to stray from the defaults. I am sure they are specific instances where this may be required, but for the majority of encodes the defaults work well 2 - I very briefly looked at AV1 a while ago and was put off by file size and encode time, so never really dug deep into it 3 - Ive never had any issues changing variable frame rate to constant, but I have had AV sync issues going back the other way 4 - Here's a great article that explains sample and bit rates - www.waveroom.com/blog/bit-rate-vs-sample-rate-vs-bit-depth/ Hope this helps!

[@coogacygnus]

Also are you going to do a AV1 4K UHD encode? I heard it’s way efficient than x265. Would love to see some samples..

[@zenverlot36]

How long did the encoding take?

[@thewebernets]

My clunky old I5 took about 18hrs, but my 2 year old iMac crunched through the same encode in 7-8 from memory.

[@Humaneriiing]

As for ¡audio codecs, you could try Libopus which can offer comparable (or slightly better) audio quality at lower bitrates.

[@esunsalmista]

For 4K HDR blurays, is there a set of video settings you'd recommend for those of us that are a bit more on the videophile side and who enjoy quality checks/comparisons and really want to maximize the video quality? I have plenty of space for my rips, and I'm fine with dropping a 60GB file to ~20GB.

[@thewebernets]

Sure, adjust the constant quality slider to 10-12

[@esunsalmista]

@@thewebernets Thanks!

[@heinzwaldpfad]

hey I'm in the same boat, I want my 1080p rips at max quality I go with 10 RF and very slow. if the source is only 21,9gb and my file is 28gb at the end I can go down with the RF to 13 ? and don't lose quality?

[@Elitezalba]

Fantastic tutorial! Do you have recommended settings for reducing file size without any noticeable changes in quality? Space isn't really a concern, and I'm looking to encode an 80GB file down to around 30GB, so that it's reduced, but almost no indication that it was reduced. Thanks in advance!

[@thewebernets]

Glad you like the video. The only thing you would need to change from these settings is the constant quality slider. Set it to 16-18 and you should be set👍

[@Elitezalba]

​@@thewebernetsHow about the encoder preset? Is it basically a balancing act between a faster preset and a lower constant quality setting?

[@DezorianGuy]

Thank you for the informative video! I have a few questions though: 1. Filters: You've left "Interlace Detection" and "Deinterlace" at the default "decomb" setting. Is this because your Blu-ray file is interlaced? Why not turn these options off? 2. Colorspace: I’m interested in encoding videos that will be compatible with both HDR-capable and non-HDR TVs. Which setting would you recommend to ensure broad compatibility? 3. Encoders: In your video, I see you can choose "AV1" as the encoder. Could my inability to select AV1 be due to not having a compatible graphics card? I currently have an RTX 3060. 4. Rate Factor (RF): You chose an RF of 24 for your encoding. Could you explain why you prefer this over a slightly higher quality RF of 22? 5. Bit Depth: Is there a noticeable improvement in video quality, color depth, or file size when encoding an 8-bit video using the "H.265 10-bit" encoder compared to "H.265 8-bit"? Or should I tend to use 10bit to encode my 8bit videos? 6. I also don't find the option “Passthru Common Metadata”. 7. What does this code in the "Advanced Options" do exactly? Should I throw it in for all my encodes regardless of specifications of the media? Using latest Nightly-

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Great questions: 1: Deinterlace is automatic with these settings, so if interlacing is not detected, no filtering is applied. Its a "one setting fits all" kind of solution. Feel free to turn it off if you want to perform the extra steps. 2: It all depends on your hardware. If your TV and player all support HDR go with that, it looks a lot better. 3: I chose H.265 10Bit, not AV1, but yes if your graphic card doesn't support them, features like NVENC or QuickSync won't be available for selection 4: The goal of these tutorials since I started writing them in 2014 was "Best quality at smallest file size". For my eyes and system RF 24 looks great and gives a smaller file size. If you are happier with the results at RF22 go with that. 5: Keep in mind these setting are for 4K - But yes, In my testing I have noticed 10 bit gives a much nicer encode, especially in dark scenes. Artefacts/noise and blocking seems greatly reduced using 10 bit 6: Can't explain that, maybe try the latest stable release instead of nighties 7: In short, it makes the videos look a great deal better by tweaking aspects of how the encoder works. If you want to know in detail what each argument does, have a look in the description of the video.

[@ploppythekangaroo9139]

@@thewebernets Nice clear video. One quiestion... Do the custom settings slow down the encode much?

[@ElManicomioDeArkham18072]

no me soluciona mi problema este video, aqui no explica como añadir el dolby vision a los videos

[@leonardocarvalho4944]

Hi! THX for this great video! I Wanna convert from 4k to 1080p how can i do it?

[@thewebernets]

Hi - on the dimensions tab, select 1080p as the resolution limit. No need to change anything else 👍🏻

[@coogacygnus]

With your settings what’s the output size of a remux 60GB file source?

[@Jani19891]

Hello! Can this setting also be used for AV1?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, these settings are specific to the HEVC codec (like the advanced options), so the answer would be no. There will be other settings better suited for use with the AV1 codec

[@Viewer13128]

is it the same steps to convert 1080p avi video file to HEVC?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I have a video on my channel about converting 1080P to HEVC - check it out here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpLIdJl6gLGZmNUsi=sJ3I1AaKDtzlJaYQ

[@gdn86]

My file was 72 gigs. Looking like a 25 minute conversion if the estimates are correct. I let the Atmos 7.1 passthru since my soundbar does a decent job with that codec, but I compressed the AC3 bitrate on the DTS 5.1 secondary track. It's not a spatial track like Atmos or DDS:X, so I wouldn't lose much detail. If I had to guess, it should be around 6gigs with these changes. We shall see shortly.

[@gdn86]

Well, pass #2 is looking around 6 hours, but lets hope the final product is worth it.

[@gdn86]

Final product ended up being right around 7gbs, so 1/10th the size, retained all the passthru audio and I cannot distinguish the difference in video quality. Still full 4K with HDR10. On my next run I tried using the AMD hvc hardware encoding with the same settings, and it only took around an hour with the same results. I've heard using the GPU encoding adds some size to the files but I can't see much of a difference. Thanks for your video.

[@nicolasgramajo45]

para que sirve el encoder level: 5.1 ? muchos usan tambien 4.1, pero no entiendo para que sirve esa opcion y no encuentro algo claro en internet, podrias explicarme facilmente por favor?? muchas gracias. muy buen video

[@thewebernets]

Hola, gran pregunta. 5.1 significa que tienes 5 altavoces satélite y 1 subwoofer. Generalmente los 5 satélites son un delantero izquierdo, un altavoz central de donde salen las voces, un delantero derecho, luego un trasero izquierdo y un trasero derecho. Ese es el 5. Luego tienes un subwoofer para bajas frecuencias, y ese es solo uno, así que junta esto y tienes 5.1. No he visto ningún video 4.1, ¿tal vez eso no incluye el canal central para las voces? Prácticamente todas las pistas de audio Dolby Digital y DTS que encuentres serán 5.1, o incluso 7.1. 7.1 significa que también tienes dos altavoces laterales además del 5.1. Gran pregunta y espero que esta respuesta sea clara para ti.

[@Cisco2023]

@@thewebernets I think he meant the encoder level 5.1 :D

[@olcayceran484]

Yes, we have been waiting for this video for a while. Finally you bite the bullet (or wallet) i guess :) I can't wait to encode and archive 4k movies with these settings. I'm starting right now. I have no doubt that the results will be very good. Let's not wake the chunky fella. Thanks a lot. + If your TV supports both, would you prefer HDR - (HDR10) or DV? Which one do you think gives a better picture with these settings?

[@noahmarriott8188]

Dolby vision gives a enchanted colorspace as well as it gets a lot lot brighter. So if your tv supports it yes. It can improve lower resolution as well from what I heard.

[@eracer1111]

Another stellar video. But I was disappointed yesterday when I discovered that my expensive DVD/blu-ray drive can't read Ultra HD (4K) blu-rays. They all include an HD blu-ray disc, so it's not all bad. I have enough hard drive storage that I can just rip the video to raw MKV. Jellyfin on Roku can play those raw MKV's just fine. Making things a bit more disappointing is that my 4K TV can do HDR. I may need to buy a new optical drive...

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Im glad you liked the video. Keep in mind most UHD drive don't support ripping straight out of the box. I got my drive from a guy here in Australia whose website is uhdenableddrives.com - his service was outstanding and the drive is great. Depending on where you live he may be able to help you. If he doesn't ship to you it is still worth visiting the site, as you can purchase his firmware online, then its just a matter of buying a supported drive.

[@daveholloway185]

I didn't think mine could, but on some models it is possible to flash the firmware. Have you looked up if there is custom firmware for your model? You might get lucky..

[@esunsalmista]

Hello again! Anything specific i should be changing in these settings when compressing a movie with lots of dark scenes?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, that all depends if you are starting to see any noise or artefacts creeping in. If things are starting to look grainy drop the CQ slider to 20. Your file size will be bigger but the quality will be better.

[@esunsalmista]

@@thewebernets Thanks a lot!

[@Noam84-]

Before the conversion there is a way to know how many gigabytes the file will be?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I don't think any software could do this with any degree of accuracy unless you set the encode to an output size limit. The software doesn't know what the video is (animation is more compressible than regular video, and scene complexity is a huge factor in output size) therefore if doesn't know the compressibility of each frame. You have to actually do it to find out.

[@markdavies3489]

Wonderfully informative video.Just a couple of questions.I am not worried to much about sound.How much would would file size reduce if I choose bog standard stereo.Regarding borders.I presume if the settings were left untouched are the black borders for 2.39 films retained.I don't as yet own a 4k bluray disk,having only just bought a 4k UHD projector.Thanks in advance

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Im glad you like the video. Reducing 7.1 channels of audio at 1500kb down to 2 channels at 160Kb will be a substantial saving in file size. If you value file size over audio quality, this would definitely be worth pursuing. Regarding borders, these settings remove them completely, lock the aspect ratio and adjust the frame size, so when you play the encoded file the borders appear to still be there, but as there is no data, these pixels are off, giving the appearance of a black border.

[@zyzot9161]

Thx for the tutorial! A question though, doesn't the PRESET determine the output size of the video? Yours shows Fast1080p but you are encoding to 4K?

[@thewebernets]

When you select a preset then start an encode, those predetermined parameters define how the video Is encoded, unless you change them. When you open Handbrake, there is always a preset selected. When I opened Handbrake, that 1080p preset was already selected, but I changed the parameters during the course of the video, I changed the size to 4k on the dimensions tab. so when I started encoding those new settings were what was encoded even though I began with a different preset. After you make the changes, thats when you can save a new preset and give it a new name, cant do it before. I hope that makes sense.

[@zyzot9161]

@@thewebernets Thx for the reply! So what you do in the configuring tabs is what you get no matter what the preset is, got it.

[@abcdefghijh3]

Hey great Video, I just encoded 2 James Bond Movies with it. But can you explain one thing to me? The first Movie original file was 48 GB big and had a bitrate of 42 Mbit/s. The second was 51GB Big with a bitrate of 65 Mbit/s. When they both were done, the first one had a bigger size and a higher bitrate. How can that be,I expected it to be the other way around.

[@thewebernets]

This is due to choosing Constant Quality over a fixed bit rate, and the amount of details in each scene/frame of your movie. Scenes that don't have many details, and include lots of blank open areas such as skies are more compressible, and still remain high quality. Whereas scenes in a library with hundreds of books for example has a lot more detail, and can't be compressed as much.. Using constant quality ensures that the quality of each frame is constant regardless of its complexity, and it achieves this by varying the level of compression, this is how two different movies of exactly the same length end up with different file sizes. Cartoons and animation will generally always be more compressible than live action video.

[@abcdefghijh3]

@@thewebernets I see, thanks for the explaination!

[@ReR7474]

What about 4k HDR. I recorded PS5 gameplay and when I tried to compressed it it basically just went down a quarter (from 1gb) since it was a 3 minute. I used the generic numbers since I’m new to Handbrake. Thanks in advance!

[@One-Day-After-Another]

I've used handbrake for years and discovered some weird things....Example. Take a 480p DVD tv series that's interlaced that I want to convert to x264 or x265....In the past I would OFTEN run into jerky frames most noticeable when there was a slow pan or movement...some people might not even notice it but I do...so I did so much experimenting...When I chose the default MKV 480p setting... I always changed the 30 FPS under video to "same as source"... I chose deinterlace default/Yadif/Bob and instead of using constant framerate, I used variable. Wouldn't you think variable would be worse? Yes... but in my testing, I get super smooth motion using variable but if I chose constant that slight jerky frame was there...I always bump the CRF from 20 to 18 too. I don't encode a lot of 1080p stuff though.

[@thewebernets]

My guess would be that frames are combined to a certain extent when interlacing is active resulting in less frames per second, so if you are using "same as source" and Handbrake is trying to make 27 frames fit a 30FPS container, some frames might duplicate causing the appearance of stutters. Variable frame rate can adjust for it resulting in smooth motion.

[@One-Day-After-Another]

@@thewebernets Yea... I learned that same as source + variable causes handbrake to make an exact copy of the source FPS...If I run into a video from the past that has jerky frames that I encoded...if I encode it at 23.976 constant instead of 30 FPS, it completely smooths it... I use playon Home to record streaming stuff sometimes... and those recordings suffer the same thing....the jerky frames. Since the files are so large... I re-encode them to 23.976 constant and totally smooth.

[@SooHooSamaSito]

If you plan on streaming to a surround setup, is it worth going with the passthru audio option? Does that option add more than 1gb to file size?

[@thewebernets]

Every audio track is different, so it is not possible to say exactly how much it will add, but, yes, passing an audio track through, especially if it is the 7.1 track will increase the file size significantly. If you are going to stream it I would recommend compressing it so you don't experience any lag whilst playing back

[@SooHooSamaSito]

@@thewebernets Thank you kindly!

[@BrokenChalice]

If I wanted to still use the (TrueHD)(7.1 Ch) audio track or the DTS-HD MA 7.1 since I'm not too concerned about space but want good audio would you recommend doing 7.1 as an AAC with a Bitrate of either 960 or 1152 and the mixdown to 7.1 with a samplerate of 48? I am not too knowladgeable myself about audio conversion and Im by no means an audiophile. I just want the best audio I can get out of my theater exquipment and I do have a 7.2 Setup with dolby atmos so I didn't really wanna use 5.1 when 7.1 is available to me. Would these settings cause too much of an issue with quality? Maybe a video to do in the future? A 4k H.265 template using the 7.1 Audio Tracks. Your templates are all I use in Handbreak. I have them as presets. So any advice on what settings to use for 7.1 (when available) would be appreciated.

[@thewebernets]

Hi, if file size is not a problem and you want the best possible audio quality select passthru. This will allow the original audio to pass through handbrake untouched. The video show how to do this at 4.39 minutes in. Glad you find the tutorials useful, and thanks for your question.

[@LuisPeris]

Hi, Great video! Congrats and thanks for the info. I knew all the main settings that you related in the video tutorial except the advanced video string that you detailed explain in the description. I have bought by one hand an Intel arc a 380, and by other hand an mini PC Intel n100 12th gen to use them with quicksync to handbrake my videos 4k and 1080p to h265. Does the advanced 4k string will work ok also for 1080p or requires any variation? In that case could you write me the optimum string for 1080p h265 quicksync? Thanks in advance

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Im glad you like the video. Yes, the same advanced code works for 4k and 1080. Regarding Intel Quick Sync, I don't have any supported hardware, so I don't know much about it, and can't do any testing with it. There is a great page in Handbrakes documentation that offers tips, as well as arguments it supports - handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/video-qsv.html

[@stickboy8219]

I want to upscale my old WWF stuff Will this still apply if I upscale it to 4K or even 1080p ?

[@MrGbergkamp]

Webernets - Can you tell me what I may have done wrong? I followed your video with the settings. I just purchased Top Gun Maverick 4k/UHD to test this. When I go to plex to watch it, I have a narrator talking during the whole movie. Thanks.

[@thewebernets]

Hi, it sounds to me like when you were choosing the audio track you have selected the one with the directors commentry. You need to search through and find the best track to use. Keep in mind there may not be a suitable 5.1 track and you may have to use a 7.1 track.

[@YiyaMurano_deMontserrat]

and for convert BluRay to AV1 using nvenc nvdia card, do you know the best setting. thanks

[@thewebernets]

Hi, the only recommendation I have for hardware encoding is not to do it. Even though it is way quicker, for my eyes the quality is just not there.

[@MarcosHernandez-v1b]

Hi! Which one is better for 1080 resolution, H265 or H264?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, in short, H.265 is a better code. It is more compressible. However, it takes a lot longer to encode and is harder on your system. Both codecs can provide excellent results so you need to look at your equipment to help you decide. If you have a more recent computer with lots of power, and a compatible media player and tv use H.265. If your computer is older or you want the encode faster, and have an older media player and TV use H.264. You will get extremely good results if you follow my videos on either codec. Hope this helps

[@jonatanjimenez3819]

I'll test it. Is it possible see the same HDR colour of 4K in MP4 with H.265 codec?

[@thewebernets]

Yes, MP4 does support HDR.

[@jujumama7509]

For the speed of encoding which brand do you think is the best Intel I9 or AMD R9, I currently have a Ryzen 5 5600H on my laptop and I would be interested in buying a mini pc with a powerful processor 32 GB Ram in DDR5 , would there be a real saving of time or not thank you.

[@Bradofosho]

If you have an Nvidia graphics card it can often do the encoding much faster than a processor!

[@jujumama7509]

And Bad quality 😐

[@thewebernets]

I can't answer with any great authority as all my testing is CPU based, but I have been hearing good things about Quick Sync, so maybe have a closer look at Intel

[@Schwift3D]

Just curious, when you said set the Colourspace to BT.709 for devices that can't play HDR media. Will these still play in full HDR on devices that natively support HDR? Or do you only get HDR support by leaving colourspace off?

[@thewebernets]

Great Question - By changing the colour space your are narrowing the range of available colours to suit what a system can handle. Playing the muted content on a system that can reproduce a broader spectrum won't bring it back, as you have already stripped that data from the file. It is similar to converting lossless audio to mp3, you are stripping out data to the fringe of what is perceivable, some people hear/see the clipping, some don't. Thanks for the question 👍

[@Schwift3D]

Thanks for the response :)

[@Ali9274-t2r]

Hello, Can you make a video how to convert 3D Blu-Ray movies?

[@thewebernets]

Hmmm, I don't think the technique would be any different. Are you trying to compress side by side 3d or multiple streams?

[@Ali9274-t2r]

@@thewebernets compress

[@fourwheelerjock]

I tried this and I have a pretty solid PC. But when I tried this it said it was gonna take like 2 days to handbrake. I don't mind if it's like a over night thing. But i dont have 2 days to waste in a handbrake file. What am I doing wrong?

[@fourwheelerjock]

Also I gave tried these settings just in a H.264 codec as well and they won't play either (was trying to see if h.264 would work and be faster, It was faster but wouldn't play but I encode everything else in h.264 and plays just fine)

[@thewebernets]

Hi, it takes a ton of computer power to do it quickly, thats why I suggest leaving it on whilst you dont need your computer. You can adjust the speed slider but it is a sliding scale, the faster you encode the lower the quality. Play around with it until you find a setting you can live with.

[@fourwheelerjock]

@@thewebernets I mean, Ingot s pretty powerful PC. I edit 4K and 8K videos. Just I am doing something wrong.

[@therain6846]

what is video setting use in encode can i chek from to video

[@DanJay1983]

I noticed on one of my movies that your audio setting using AC3 lossy audio ended up being a higher file size than using FLAC 16-bit lossless (with all other settings the same). Handbrake can’t pass through PCM but you can use the source PCM with MKVtoolnix after using handbrake. That was about the same file size as using FLAC. Just curious what could be causing the lossy AC3 setting per this video to be higher file size than lossless? I went with lossless in this case for better audio.

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I don't have an answer sorry, Ive not tried to use this method.

[@noahmarriott8188]

Flac is lossless compression. The file is compress like ac3 but it is unpacked when it is required to bitstream the packed pcm data. Flac has a different compression algorithm so it doesn’t scale the same way. I don’t know what settings you used but this may be the case.

[@noahmarriott8188]

Also you can passthrough pcm with auto passthrough I believe. It has to be a MKV file. MP4 doesn’t support pcm. You need to change the file extension on the summary tab.

[@bookytolsena]

Thanks very much for your tutorial. I wanna know why if my original video come with srt UTF-8... The final result change my sub to ssa format?

[@RobertLentz97]

I notice in Plex that when I try to convert it down to say 1080p, its not there. I see 720p or less... How do I fix that?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, sorry I can't help, I don't use Plex

[@RobertLentz97]

Ugh. Can anyone help me with this question?

[@caseablee]

@@RobertLentz97 from a quick search around, the top two 1080p quality profiles are 15 and 20 Mbps. Your source file is probably lower than those so, for Plex, it doesn’t make sense to present them as options for conversion. If your 4k encode is already a low bitrate then downscaling to 1080p of a higher bitrate wouldn't be beneficial.

[@RobertLentz97]

@@caseablee Interesting... Saving space with the settings in the video. I just didn't think I would get that great of rip when I compare it to other people's versions.

[@kenfixes2908]

Nice video..nice software. It does yake forever!!!!! Lot of CPU consumption

[@thewebernets]

Yep sure does - When you think about how many pixels are in each frame of video, times that by the amount of frames per second, for the duration of the video, there is a MASSIVE amount of info to process and re-encode

[@MohammedAadhil10]

can i use same settings for converting 4k to 1080p?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, sure you can, the only thing you would need to change is on the dimensions tab, change the resolution limit to 1080P HD

[@510maddog]

I thought deinterlace should be off for progressive video. That's for DVDS.

[@thewebernets]

There are interlaced BluRays in some countries. The Interlace Detection setting monitors the video and if no interlacing is detected, no filter is applied. That is why it is on by default in Handbrake, it only filters when needed. Hover your cursor over it for a description.

[@verygood8116]

hello, are the GPU accelerated codecs worthwhile? Also, I have a projector that can support over 100% of the BT.2020 so would it be worth selecting H.265 12-bit?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I haven't used the hardware specific settings myself, but I have heard some people have had significant encode speed increases. If your card is supported I would definitely suggest giving it a try. Also, 4K Blurays are encoded in 10 Bit, so I don't think there is any benefit to using 12 Bit as you won't be able to put lost colour info back in. You would need 12 bit source material for any benefit.

[@verygood8116]

@@thewebernets thank you and your videos are very well done.

[@thewebernets]

Glad you like them - @@verygood8116

[@MrTheUpgrade]

What projector is supporting 100% of bt.2020

[@yannisgk]

@@MrTheUpgrade lol...i have the same question!!!

[@stestewart1119]

I followed these settings etc my pc will take 9 hours to do my 4k item 😮😮....I've I done something wrong?

[@Doctortech1]

Is their a way to download presets because I can't get my to work.

[@thewebernets]

You can import and export presets, so yes if you have a friend that can make exactly what you want they can export a preset and you could import it

[@matslarsson5988]

But there shouldn't be a need to decomb a modern bluray movie, right?

[@thewebernets]

Depends where you are from. There are interlaced Blurays out there.

[@matslarsson5988]

@@thewebernets yes but if it's not, couldn't it actually make the image loose detail?

[@thewebernets]

@@matslarsson5988 The Interlace Detection setting monitors the video and if no interlacing is detected, no filter is applied. That is why it is on by default in Handbrake, it only filters when needed. Hover your cursor over it for a description.

[@matslarsson5988]

​@@thewebernetsAh! Thanks for the info! Didnt know that.👍🏻

[@christian9065]

Personally I use the Staxrip program which I have been doing my video reencoding for a while, I recently upgraded my PC from a Phenom II x4 945 to a Ryzen 5600g and the speed is much faster, now I use the x265 experimenting trying to get the best quality on the less space, the problem is always the time the encoding takes, these days I am testing the x265 from AMD and by moving some things I have achieved an encoding speed of 173fps for a 1080p video at 60fps, but it still does not convince me the quality obtained, do you have any advice to improve the compression of this codec by GPU? I liked the video, it indicates many things about handbrake, I stopped using it a long time ago because it does not have video filters, noise reduction and other things that Staxrip does have.

[@thewebernets]

I haven't tried Staxrip, but there are definitely some useful filters on the "Filters" tab in Handbrake that you can use to clean up your videos

[@jcjc2246]

strong-intra-smoothing=0: rect=0: aq-mode=1:rd=4:psy-rd=0.75:psy-rdoq=4.0:rdoq-level-1:rskip=2

[@thewebernets]

Yep, strong-intra-smoothing=0:rect=0:aq-mode=1:rd=4:psy-rd=0.75:psy-rdoq=4.0:rdoq-level=1:rskip=2. That how we roll...

[@amateurhour2944]

If you're on an Nvidia GPU you should select H.265 10-bit NVENC instead, that will speed up the encoding significantly. Should take less than an hour for a 2 hour movie if you're on a RTX 3080.

[@ramdom_assortment]

So I cant find any info AT ALL online. I can encode in 265 NVENC, but if I try to use 265 10bit NVENC it says a 1.5 hour movie is going to take 15 hours to encode. I have a 2060 Super and a Ryzen 1600X CPU. Is it even worth trying to save the HDR? I only have a 2K setup but I like to future proof my files.

[@tsioulak]

Something has gone wrong, i have a 2060 (no super for me) and when i encode UHD remux files it takes about the lenght time of the movie (a bit less actually) to transcode it to h.265 10 bit with 30 quality.

[@ramdom_assortment]

@@tsioulak I got it to work by choosing to just not select a color profile and just use whats in the video.

[@tsioulak]

@@ramdom_assortment were you trying to remove the HDR?

[@ramdom_assortment]

@ak I was using the color profile I saw in a video someone recommended to keep the colors correct with compression, but once I just keep the colors as source I have no issue. Funny enough the same movie in 4K is only about 3 gigs biggest than the same movie in 1080P when I compress it.

[@tsioulak]

@@ramdom_assortment the original 4k was on what codec? h.264? was it an already compressed file or it was the remux file?

[@lizserju]

My T.V. supports BT.2020, should I choose that instead?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, If your source media is already HDR (BT 2020) there is no need to select this as it will be processed as this anyway. Its only if your system can't play HDR that you need to worry about this setting

[@CosmicPotato]

Seems very hit or miss for me. Sometimes I will get lucky and the converted file will be like 20-25% the size of the original, but usually it is more like 75-80% of the original file size. It sucks because 4K videos take a looong time to encode, and there is no way of knowing whether I'll get lucky with 20% file size, or 80% file size 😕 I even have my settings at a very slightly lower quality setting (25 instead of 24) which theoretically would make the file even smaller.

[@DavidConstance]

I would make one suggestion. Don't change frame rate to 24. Movies are in 23.98. I tried the settings of this video and it looked off. Just keep frame rate so the system isn't forced to slow down each frame to match the audio

[@thewebernets]

Thanks for your comment, however the settings in the video say the frame rate should be set to "same as source". Its the quality slider that is set to 24. Hope that makes sense.

[@DavidConstance]

@@thewebernets thank you! My mistake

[@TiredOfImbecileLibtards]

@@thewebernets what's the best settings for Denoise filter and Sharpen filter setting? I'm upscaling a TS movie file to MP4 file. I want to get the best quality possible.

[@thewebernets]

@@TiredOfImbecileLibtards Hi, unfortunately there isn't a "one setting fixes all" solution here, as every video will be different, and require different amounts of filtering. The best way to handle this is download the free program called Avidimux and slice of a 3 minute piece of your source video and run it through handbrake with various settings to test it. This way you don't have to wait for the whole movie to encode, just do a little piece until you are happy with your settings, then do the whole movie.

[@CDubya.82]

Hard drives and SSDs arent that expensive and could very well be worth the time it will save you instead of trying to compress your rips down to 'streaming' service level poor quality when compared to what you had on the disc.

[@8lenny1]

I don't see all the options you have

[@thewebernets]

Hi, do you have the latest version of Handbrake?

[@jublywubly]

There's no such thing as "4K Bluray". There are Blu-Ray discs and there are UHD discs. None of them are 4K and none of them are a combination of the two formats. Even all so-called "4K UHD" discs are actually UHD, not 4K. Blu-Ray resolution is FHD (Full High Definition; a misnomer, because there are greater resolutions, now), at 1920 x 1080 UHD (Ultra High Definition) is 3820 x 2160 4K (Literally standing for four thousand pixels) is 4096 x 2160 "4K UHD" discs are UHD, because their resolution is 3820 x 2160, not 4096 x 2160. (The same with KZbin's resolution, despite their claims of it being 4K.) Only movies at cinemas are in 4K. "4K UHD" discs may use a blue laser to read the discs, but their name isn't "4K Blu-Ray", because those are two different formats in two different resolutions.

[@thewebernets]

The same could be said of DVD, is it 480 or 576? I've spent a lot of time in the past drilling down into these kinds of details as well, and it results in a lot fewer likes on your videos :) I try to keep things as general as possible so it is digestible for a broader range of viewers. Thanks for your comment.

[@opoaloas9563]

on recent films it is so compressed that there are problems with fluidity, artifacts and other problems 2 GB at 2700 Bitrate :O For a Remux 65 GB 71100 Bitrate, Optimal for weight not quality

[@thewebernets]

Slide the constant quality slider down until you are happy with how it looks on your system

[@opoaloas9563]

below RF18 the size increases significantly no because in RF24 I have 2GB in RF22 I have 4 GB and I did a test in RF16 I have 20 GB for the stream video@@thewebernets

[@thewebernets]

Its always a sliding scale between size vs quality. Better encodes generally equals bigger file size. You have to find the sweet spot that you can live with

[@MrTacoMan247]

i dont have main 10

[@yannisgk]

videophiles dream of uncompressed data btw!!!

[@noshinbeig8336]

Can I get your insta/email? Need little help regarding handbrake compression. Please?? I need to compress lots of camera videos don't have much space left on my computer now.

[@thewebernets]

Happy to answer any questions you have right here, the answers may help others as well so ask away

[@rob21]

Wow. So much wrong. You don’t leave deinterlace on for Blu-ray.

[@thewebernets]

Why do you need to deinterlace progressive video? Its not interlaced to begin with, its drawn one line at a time....

[@rob21]

@@thewebernets Yes, that's my point. You have it on at 2:32, and some of your other recommendations are suboptimal too. It can introduce artifacts if it's not needed.

[@thewebernets]

at the default settings interlace detection is automatic, so if interlaced frames are not detected, deinterlacing is not applied. Can you explain to us all how and why artefacts are created under these circumstances, when deinterlacing is not being applied?

[@rob21]

@@thewebernets It absolutely affects the video quality when it's on, regardless of source.

[@thewebernets]

how?