How to Shrink a Video File Size Without Losing Quality

[@rafah4329]

1:45 is where the how to actually starts

[@frazixofficial842]

Thanks :)

[@smipiy]

Thx

[@j33ms70]

thx

[@AbhilashNairSpartnax]

Thanks

[@SpyceeMT]

Thanks

[@urmomdoer2315]

Thanks, now I can send my friend a 3 minute video of me eating a bowl of 75% whipped cream and 25% of ice cream.

[@zakplaystuff]

Didn't need the details there but ok lol

[@mewhenthe9456]

@@zakplaystuff we are not going to complain

[@TornadoesTheGamer]

Yes very yes

[@Homixide5]

Cockyoin

[@randomword7967]

Can I see?

[@HomeStudioBasics]

For anyone reading this, this is a much better method for motion graphic video files vs. VLC. For whatever reason, after a VLC conversion my graphic rotates 45 degrees and it's more headache than it's worth trying to fix it. Hand Brake is much better and does not do this. Thanks so much Marcos!

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Great to know. thanks.

[@memeclips4499]

Just trying to send an entire shrek movie to my friends on discord

[@dhedetry8571]

Just trying to upload an 8 second animation, its a freaking 1.4 gb

[@GWKrae]

Dhede Try dafuq is this a 100k quality video?

[@dhedetry8571]

@@GWKrae i don't know, maybe because i did it the wrong way

[@xtmg]

@@dhedetry8571 use media encoder to render

[@neuvivilette]

True me to am trying to show my wip

[@JasonsAcousticWorkshop]

You can't title it "without losing quality" then say that the quality is not as good as the original

[@xifo185]

😂😂😂

[@mohit.bandbe]

Exactly

[@nicholasxedric3123]

This is a dang clickbait dude😅

[@elaineofhouston]

Lol facts

[@lachiedalziel2321]

You're not wrong....but....dude....come on

[@over30club]

If you hold the cursor over the different tabs, a drupdown description gives you info on what the tab does and how best to tweak it

[@randisetiawan9789]

press the delete button then enter🙂

[@theblackkid93]

Thank you for the tip. If I didn't get this advice I'd be waiting to upload a clip for 6 hours when its just 15 minutes video

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Great to hear man!

[@Goonqq]

pog

[@sidefries247]

pog

[@imaddraws8799]

I keep seeing pog

[@AhmadAlnajjar]

@@Goonqq what does pog means?

[@rishigolembiewski]

This actually is reducing the file quality by a huge amount. H.264 is a compressed file type, good for the last step of video production - if you don't need to make any more changes. If you need to do any colour grading or do something like key out a green screen, this kind of compression will make it significantly more difficult. Otherwise if nothing needs to be done to it and the difference is in perceivable then it's totally a good option. It can also be done in any video editing software.

[@johnbeaker8721]

Shhh, don't tell the morons who think you can losslessly compress video by 98%.

[@nuggystan9128]

@@johnbeaker8721 "shhh, dont educate people who dont know"

[@johnbeaker8721]

@@nuggystan9128 If someone is so stupid that they think that they can losslessly compress video files by 98%, then I'd rather let them live in ignorance than ruin their delusion.

[@Raylightsen]

@@nuggystan9128 What is your problem with sharing knowledge?

[@love2laughwa]

THANK YOU!! We recorded a customer's marriage proposal yesterday and I needed to email the video to them. I didn't know how to compress it. YOU SAVED ME! :)

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Oh man, this is so good to hear!

[@NathanMaingard]

It's so cool to come back here years later and see you are KILLING it! I always knew you'd do well, so happy to see. Thanks and much love

[@MasterTSayge]

My Hard Drive gave your video a seal of approval.

[@nigelxheri]

Even Ed from TechSource would approve this, even tho he got like idk, 200 TB or something lol! Just joking btw

[@CircuitBurger]

In needed to shrink a video file, Did the old Google bit, found this link to your KZbin clip, watched it and now I have a smaller video file. Thanks for the excellent quality video mate, done exactly what I needed, top marks :)

[@r3unite749]

Went from 12 gigs to 136 MB with no visible quality loss. Definitely deserves its credit.

[@johnbeaker8721]

There is no fucking way you went from 12GB to 136mb without visible loss, that's a reduction of 98%.

[@r3unite749]

@@johnbeaker8721 Suit yourself.

[@r3unite749]

@SmoLy He was probably trying to upload raw uncompressed video material to youtube, so he couldn't afford to use up any internet speed, and it finally uploaded. :D

[@cesarusgeminis3561]

lmao

[@magiccheeseball]

@@johnbeaker8721 135 MB seems like what a 10 minute video should be but with my GoPro 10 minutes takes up like 5 GB I'm trying to figure out how to reduce it I don't get why it takes so much space

[@terryallenheckart7339]

Well I saw some of the comments below, and maybe it would be better to know more about the settings first, but this tutorial SAVED me. I couldn't upload a video for class because it was too big and now it will be okay!!!

[@rosiejones6692]

Don't listen to the haters - this helped me SO much. Got a 725MB file down to 79MB. THANK YOU!!!

[@DominicI1]

@@IfDawidCanYouCan Begging for subscribers like that is sad...

[@NewYorkNadia]

LOVE HandBrake, been using it forever! Great vid, only thing missing is to explain why the audio settings (128)

[@DominicI1]

Great video! Just wanted to say that when encoder options are talked about (4:29), a faster encoder option actually tends to increase the file size while having less quality. A slower encoder option actually leads to (usually) smaller video files with better quality at the same time. This is because a slower encoder option takes much longer, using the computer graphics and processing in order to optimize the quality as best as possible while keeping the small file formate.

[@StocksLight]

That's True...

[@sikwitit773]

They're right i took 9.34 gig 2k video and got it down to 1.36 gig using handbrake at rf 22 h.265 and encoder preset slower

[@bugmanmd1576]

Thanks. I've never understood what that option meant

[@jabaarmohamed3551]

Best tips ever and very accessible because i am a Deaf person and rely on subtitles and your visual showing is greatest and awesome! keep up. All the way from Cape Town South Africa

[@snazzy391]

Me: laughs in 10 different gmail accounts for gdrive

[@cooldudeindia100]

google drive also is unable to play, it can be uplaoded but not playing :( i wanted to save it in my phone through gdrive

[@JesusChrist-ud2cc]

ahahahahaha same

[@KielogsKornflakes]

Thank You Very Much. I really need to send a video project of my daughter to her school and I am overseas. This tip helps me a lot. I cant thank you enough.

[@Sam-cd1hx]

My dude you are a life saver If I didn't find this vid I would have failed my music GCSE mad respect

[@ilikechineseteaespeciallyj7262]

damn bro hope you get good marks on thursday 👌👌

[@RH-zz5zy]

Am I the only one who wants to know more about this?!

[@DawahUniverse]

@@RH-zz5zy Yeah

[@bullterrier4]

Oh man, thanks so much for your video. Just uploaded two files over to a client using Handbrake after watching your video. Worked perfectly and shrank files so much smaller with no noticeable downgrade in video and audio quality.

[@dr4co500]

So. 7 minutes video to say: Start the program. Leave everything to default. Press Start.

[@bonerfart5323]

great seeing you again

[@AlphaCarinae]

Yeah, complete bullshit. I was expecting an actual guide.

[@pbates11]

I thought I was missing something, But that's what I got out of it too.

[@BeefForLess]

This helped me out a lot, thanks a bunch!

[@noreenlloren1052]

Is handbrake still free?

[@takuanp1ckles]

@@noreenlloren1052 Yes it is

[@scootndute579]

"How to jump without leaving the ground", "How to eat without food", "How to clap without hands" ... How to shrink a video without losing quality

[@ScoutJoe]

You forgot "How to how without a how"

[@MaGiCo0o]

"How to jump without leaving the ground" -> jump with ur legs while having ur hands touching the ground like a hand stand , "How to eat without food" -> glucose injection "How to clap without hands" -> actually you can clap with ur legs , try it. How to shrink a video without losing quality -> you actually shrink videos without losing quality but it depends on what are u gonna play the video on , lets say you have a 4k ~ 8K video intended for cinema or big projector preview you can change it to 1080p and you would never tell the difference on mobile or small screens in general .

[@thadeussm6217]

@@MaGiCo0o WoW

[@cargameios2411]

@@ScoutJoe i laughed more than laugh 😂🤩

[@KarimLaaiadiVlogs]

Hello Marcos, Would you please tell us the name of the transition used on the Subscribe lower third at 0:12 , please ? I believe it's on Premiere Pro if I am not mistaken. thank you in advance

[@MarcosRochaTV]

I bought that transition from Envato Market... i believe its called glitch titles

[@davidgrunstra3680]

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this video sir!! I've been trying to compress a video of me playing a flamenco song at a gig now for a year. Your post was so helpful. Thanks again!

[@Pwayko]

Great video. wish you added bundles on multiple clips and not just one at a time. all good none the less

[@GrantSR]

You sure are guessing a lot for a guy who is supposedly telling me how to do something.

[@MarcosRochaTV]

👍🏼

[@joshsalinas9342]

dick

[@marksaxon]

Yeah I had the same thought. I think I know more about Handbrake than he does. I came here to see if maybe he had some different settings. There was a ton of guessing in this video. And someone else commented about how he was wrong about the encoder settings. The slower you set it, the SMALLER the video size gets and higher quality. It will take a lot longer depending on your hardware.

[@redondokid]

Shut the fuck up boomer

[@walidfakhfakh3660]

@@redondokid kid

[@glennholbrook7660]

Thank you for making this video. I spent all day trying to find the right kind of compressor for my video movies until I found yours. This should help me out a lot.

[@eilujnager]

Very concise. I downloaded and followed your instructions and reduced my file from 57mb to 19mb. Thanks for your help. Took me only a few minutes.

[@CorderoEspeluznante]

lol

[@TheGamingDude0523]

lmao 57 mb to 19? dude I'm here tryna reduce my video file size from 911 mb to like 300 or somethin and your reducing from 57 mb..

[@eilujnager]

@@TheGamingDude0523 I wanted to email my file. So I was happy with the reduction.

[@tadyagha362]

you are a living legend. subscribing for more stuff. i was like, gotta thank this dude. you got yourself a supporter. good shit bruh keep it up.

[@dulcenoelia7533]

I assumed Marcos was an expert at this but after the third time, he said "I don't know what this does" I gave up!

[@Kain_Xavier]

Yeah... I assumed the guy knew wtf he was talking about considering it had over half a million views, but between "I don't know what this does" and "I'm guessing this effect file size"... wow.

[@littlebuddytoo]

Then YOU do a video on the subject instead of whining.

[@Kain_Xavier]

@@littlebuddytoo Uh... the people who search up this video clearly are looking to learn something... so they know even less than the content creator (if that's possible). You want more pointless blind leading the blind videos?

[@requemao]

@littlebuddytoo It's fair to comment negatively too, because discouraging low-effort videos can improve the average quality of available videos, and that's what most of us want.

[@littlebuddytoo]

@@requemao Maybe it's just me but I learned a great deal from this presentation, I also learned patience when I was a child, it helps navigating through this world.

[@4ndy523]

This video was super useful. I loved the program!!

[@Comicbooksavant]

Hey Marcos I found your channel a few months back and I just wanted to say thank you for all the great content that you provide you have help me so much in learning final cut pro X, keep up the great work!

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Thanks for the encouragement. I am sharing what I am learning and I am glad it helps.

[@ZakEdwardsOfficial]

I already use a Video Converter program and when you suggested the other, it made me look for a "compression" ability in mine & sure enough..found it! Was only converting with it until now. I'm trying a first run now. Without your advice here, I'd be spinning my head on a 80gb release I have, that's going out 10gb at a time. Thank you so much! I subscribed.

[@tiprolmaman6232]

its like a life saver , thank you bro

[@muzrobins3933]

Thank you so much! This is so handy. I use an app with a 50mb app limit and now I can actually share videos on it.

[@DanielleKingdjdinosaur]

yes its really good.I use handbrake quite a bit as Serato doesnt like large files and i like to use MP4S mostly so can convert files as well as compress if i need to.

[@geraldthorburn1123]

Excellently talked-through instructions, Marcos. Your sharing is much appreciated.

[@tarajinews6241]

Work great! 7GB to 2.3GB without losing quality.

[@chloefourte3413]

This worked flawlessly, thank you!

[@TheFreedPerspective]

Dude. You SAVED me with this! Thank you!!!

[@MR-AK]

Good stuff. What about apple compressor? Is that also for compressing files?

[@sixtheninth]

I like the part - "I don't what this do never experimented with it, but let's do it and see" :)))

[@LuisRodriguez-qu8pb]

love your video, clean straightforward instruccions, thanks very helpful

[@thinklikesvr6579]

Hey mate! I really appreciate your time in making this video super helpful thanks for making us save tons of storage on our systems 👏🏻

[@blastytemplate7490]

Thank you so much!! My video file size is 1gb now I can shrink it smaller!! Now I can upload KZbin videos fast and its 1080p! Your a life saver bro!

[@martinschollmeier789]

Even though you guessed a lot this tutorial is great. I was able to reduce my file size by 60gb without any losses. Thanks a lot!

[@martinschollmeier789]

@INFECTED WORLD 30fps, slow, 12, and 128 for audio

[@lindilengcukana7659]

I need help compressing a video larger than 100GB

[@johnbeaker8721]

You absolutely did have losses, you can't re-encode a video file without incurring generation loss.

[@obastanley6531]

Wow, an incredible size difference. Thanks for sharing

[@amvnathe1954]

OMFG! AT LAST! THANK YOU BROOOOO I LOSE ALOT OF GB! From 33.9 GB - 426MB with the same Frame width and height! OMGGGG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Yaaaaas!!!

[@itsjohnthomas]

Enjoyed watching and appreciated from your detailed walkthrough

[@leam.7383]

Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this for YEARS! And I love how easy it is after your tutorial.

[@one_step_sideways]

His tutorial is guesswork garbage though.

[@Playos-ok1dc]

Doe it work on longer videos?

[@robertriley9091]

Man, soon I am going to look like a spammer on here from all of my comments. I created a 90-minute video in an .MP4 format from iMovie and the file size was nearly 8 gigs. I used Handbrake as described in the video and changed the audio to 128-bit and what-not and got the file down to 1.4 GB. Now it fits on the 4GB thumb drive for the TV that runs in the loop on one of our TV's. It came out great. Without this recommendation I'd be in trouble.

[@bobstechreviews8942]

Robert Riley please don’t use 128kbit mp3. It seriously ruins the sound.

[@robertriley9091]

@@bobstechreviews8942 Thanks for the tip.

[@Mrkck913]

Excuse my language but this fucking rocks!! I'm now loving this Handbrake also.

[@jomontanee]

Glad to know you use huge video file like 11GB. Because mine is 15GB. And most articles or video just talked about “big as 3GB or so” and I am freak out cause mine exceeds that!

[@ForceGMs]

Funny how this kind of videos about compressing video without losing quality all end up the same.. = Losing Video Quality 😂😂

[@anandsuralkar2947]

Lol i would suggest USE some advanced AI..which will preserve quality but might suck at some things like people's faces of something but "quality"would still be sharpe as aHDR 4K BLUERAY video and i have no idea if it evem exist

[@renannegresiolo220]

Title: Without losing quality 6:45 "There's definitely a difference"

[@walidfakhfakh3660]

@@renannegresiolo220 gtfo no one cares i said

[@uzarnizarni8371]

Thank you so much for your share Marcos . It's very useful for keep backup data. Thanks again.

[@Digital.Done.Right.]

Funny watching this Marcos. I have needed to get onto this subject particularly for early versioning of videos to speed up my workflow. You talk about upload times and all. This could save hours. Now you have done the Google search&learn for me. Thx!

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Andrew, it is always good to hear this is something you wanted to know about. I just share what I am learning.

[@Sagar-wn1po]

hey, 4:50 I think if you turn that slow then the quality would be good but the time taken to encode will increase and size would be same. It is tradeoff between time and quality, not time and size as you said. Please correct if i am wrong

[@UnseenSamy]

Hey Marcos, love the good content ! Do you have videos for managing/archiving files after finishing a project ?

[@MarcosRochaTV]

Thanks! This is something I am still deciding on. But, definitely a topic worth talking about in a future video. For KZbin, I only store the final video. For client projects, I store all the footage on my hard drives.

[@SamuelRiveraFilms]

La Frenchy Sports News I’d like to see something on this as well

[@yapproger]

Thanks, nice clear voice with your instructions , much better than some! 😜

[@AttilaTheDev]

I'm sorry, the intentions for making this video were probably good, but the end result is not what's being promised and some of the details given are actually erroneous. In my experience you can reduce the file size by about 5 times without definitely not losing visible quality. I would also not skimp on audio quality. 128kbps audio is not very good. Stick to 192kbps. Also, decombing should not be turned off without knowing what you're doing. It's great for deinterlacing, keep it on if you don't know what you're doing. You might also want to keep all the audio tracks like a 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos, etc Maybe I should do a video myself on this, or a blog post. Turns out I know more about this than what's in this video. :)

[@danielmazurvideos]

Attila Vago, if ya got the goods on it, make a vid as I'm all ears for learning. I still got something from Marcos' vid though since I'm totally wet behind the ears on this kind of stuff.

[@shahedulchowdhury4264]

I wanted to thank you for making this video. It helped me a lot. Thanks

[@requemao]

"I have fiddled around with Handbrake and these are the settings I've somehow settled on". Well, that's exactly where I'm at, and I'm searching the web for more detailed information, not mindless guesswork. Come on, you didn't even try to find out what the settings mean!

[@one_step_sideways]

If you want to upload small filesize videos to Discord use a program called iDealShare VideoGo 7 and encode in Webm in VP9 and Opus. VP9 is basically the same quality as HEVC but it isn't hardware accelerated, sadly, however, Opus is what makes it worth it, as it's about 1.8x as effective as AAC. If your video has got a lot of talking, you can set the bitrate to 12kbit up to 30kbit and set audio to Mono. This will half the needed bitrate because there would only be 1 channel. If you need audio quality, like if you want a song that sounds better at higher bitrates (has complex synths that tank the bitrate), set it to around 64 to 100kbit. He didn't touch on a very useful feature - if you really need to squeeze the best quality video in under 8MB or 50MB, set the bitrates so that the projected file size stays below 8MB or 50MB (but not too close to it, go for 49.00MB instead of 49.90MB as it can still render in more than 50MB), choose VBR on both video and audio and choose the 2-Pass option. If your CPU is powerful or you don't mind running your PC or laptop for several hours, you should set the CRF value to a lower one - 33 is normal quality, 19-21 is good quality and still lower is even better. Try and experiment, maybe 1 or 0 would be great for you (probably worth doing that if you specifically want to upload in less than 8MB. But why would you want to do that if you can upload in 50MB for free just by joining a big server that has 15 or more boosts, like some partner server?) P.S. files above 50MB will not be embedded and it will not cut it

[@stanleynowak9325]

I am a Mac user. I just subscribed. This was a big help!

[@p0is0ngaming89]

Thanks man this really helped me compress my gaming playthrough vids !!!!

[@ashyellow22]

Thank you so much for this video!!! Easy to follow and I actually did it. :)

[@trailsofthesmokies]

Misleading.

[@ksproduction2446]

Please subscribe my chnnel

[@bobstechreviews8942]

KS production why?

[@ksproduction2446]

@@bobstechreviews8942 because i want 1000 subscribers

[@ksproduction2446]

@@bobstechreviews8942 give a look on my channel and see why i want subscribers

[@ksproduction2446]

@Hope Jester how you got the subscribers.??? But why you dnt have views ??

[@downtown3096]

Thank you sir. I was wasting time for ages trying to find free online conversion websites and this worked a treat. Reduced a 400mb video to 6.5mb without compromising quality in seconds. Thank you immensely!

[@bmzaron713]

Like 5% of the original file size.. That's crazy

[@zezocarvalho9196]

Super tip, Marcos. Your instructions are really simple&great. Tkz!

[@EasyBoooT]

You save my disc space! I love this progmammmm

[@zameerpashajunaidi6662]

Hi Thanks a Lot for the Tips... 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 But please mention the time of Compression and what will be the configurations? If it want to Compress faster? Can't sit idle waiting for 3 hour's.

[@MandhanAcademy]

thanks !

[@MarcosRochaTV]

👍🏼

[@emelitaaldave6663]

@@MarcosRochaTV e

[@john.the.beloved]

I had to come back to say thank you for this tip. It has really saved so much time and energy. God bless you!

[@ahdesignschicago]

Do your homework before posting a video like this. You're the video expert and you don't know what is "interlace" around minute 4:15.

[@MelodicEgghead]

What I would personally do, is work on the file that I am working on, make my youtube upload or send out whatever file I am using, and after everything is done, if I want to keep the file but have more space on my computer or laptop, I will do what you said in order to make more space, and then only suffer a little bit of quality loss or sharpness change... Other than that, thanks for the help!!!

[@jasonpapavasileiou5000]

Great videos man. Could you do a video on export settings on FCPX? Also, I know compressor you have to pay but do you think it will do a better job than handbrake? Thanks

[@MarcosRochaTV]

I haven't tested out Compressor vs. Handbrake. I think Handbrake does a really good job. Look out for a future video on my export settings.

[@jasonpapavasileiou5000]

Perfect thank you Marcos.

[@igxniisan6996]

Is this video compressed as well?

[@victorkalbskopf]

what are these hypothetical reviews.... "I assume it does that" "I think that you should do that" I came here for a training, I can guess myself.

[@crieliocriel]

Hey mate.. What is the best MOV conversion for youtube video?

[@shrek9759]

but i dont want to keep quality, i infact want to ruin the quality and audio on purpose deepfry it even, to lower the quality so i can put the entire Shrek movie in my server without nitro i dont care if you cant even understand it or see it well i want it ruined on purpose

[@dave24-73]

You know someone got Shrek on a single Floppy.

[@med-contechnologies3429]

Thank you. I followed your directions and it worked perfectly! Best!

[@akashthombare2448]

Actual video starts at 1:46

[@moneyovereverything9682]

Very helpful and great presentation. I appreciate you leaving your channel plug at the end. 👍👍

[@trayko9381]

thank you so much this is actually a life saver🙏🏾

[@mommydiy5550]

Thank you for sharing the tips. It's very important for me

[@allisinterpretation]

uh... i tried this, and it gave me a laggy output and with a bigger size... I recommend y'all to go to VLC convert/save feature instead.

[@xtmg]

Hi. have you tried using the Media encoder? I wonder which one will output the best quality at the same compressed file size.

[@maya-en3hv]

When you look it up on a Mac there is one site that says iSoft! DONT PRESS THAT ONE!

[@MikeyDee503]

thank you

[@maya-en3hv]

@@MikeyDee503 👍

[@JamesFauria]

Excellent Bro! I totally forgot about the Amazing HandBrake! Thank You.

[@Mrkck913]

Holy Crap I wish I woukd have know about this 2 weeks ago. Thank you better late than never

[@numanwaheed691]

Thanks bro 😍😍😍 you saved a lot of my storage ❤️❤️

[@ralphderkapitaen9875]

without losing quality? year right..I think you misunderstand what COMPRESSION is about...You always lose "some" quality by compressing it to a smaller file. The question is, how much quality is acceptable to your human eye...but stating that you shrink a file without losing quality is a lie

[@vicdavid5439]

I am so pleased watching your video. Thanks Marcos.

[@Kre8or333]

Good God Thank you! I Love that I'm not alone in how many times I say Um and Uh. I had to edit out a lot of them and now I think about it every time I hit record.

[@ciderpress6656]

Thank you for making such a helpful and informative video. Excellent work!

[@floatingrabbit3556]

those dislikes must have unlimited online and hard drive storage for sure.

[@MarcosRochaTV]

yep