Have I mentioned before how much I love Handbrake? I can convert so many things with it, it’s saved my butt many, many times. And it’s free!
Recently I had the need to compress an mp4 file but of course it was very important to not lose any quality either. Handbrake to the rescue! I’m not kidding it compressed a really huge video file down to a way more manageable size, and it did it in less than 2 minutes. Awesome!
Here are some nifty instructions, with pictures to boot, on how to do this yourself.
Thank you Handbrake!
It’s very good , It has reduced my 400 MB video down to 96 !!
But in other case , I got reverse experience !!
My 64 MB video became 76
I m getting the same experience repeatedly !!
The smaller videos , in the range between 60 to 70 MB ,are getting EXPANDED , after using handbrake !!
My guess is That your increasing quality (this really can’t be done but the software tries) from the smaller videos. On the video tab try reducing the Quality from 20 to like 18, then 16 and so on to see if that helps but also does not reduce the quality for your video. If you start to see a reduction of quality without reducing the size then your probably already as compressed as you can get without losing picture quality.
I’m a Windows user, so HandBrake can’t help me. After a little bit of digging around, I found an article named “Video Compressor – How to Compress Video MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, MPG, FLV, 3GP?” from Faasoft website, which introduces three ways to compress videos. I haven’t downloaded the software to have a try.
Just want to know if you can recommend a software which works on Windows.
Hi Gronealcuk, I’m afraid not, it’s been quite a while since I’ve used Windows, sorry!
Did you try HandBrake?
It works on Windows, I have no idea what you are talking about.
handbrake now works on windows
Hi there when I follow your instructions above to compress my wmv 290mb video to MP4 it only seems to convert the audio part to MP4, and not the whole video [tutorial video made with ppt]
Why is this??
kind rgds
Anita
hello everyone, i have downloaded the handbrake software but not only it doesn’t help me but increases the video size, is there any options to choose to decrease the file size
if yes, please help me to decrease my videos’ file size
for example i tried to decrease the size of a 800mb but after converting its size became 1.6gb
please help me
Hi Amir, increase the number on the quality slider. It starts on 20, so increase up to 32 or a lower number depending on the quality you want.
I use a software called iDealshare VideoGo to compress MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WMV, AVCHD and etc
It can support compress video files size as well as keep high video quality
It even can resize audio file size.
why would anyone buy iDealshare VideoGo when handshake is free and better? I tried the trial and it does NOT save quality.
Thanks for your advice. I reduced a movie from 300+ to around 49MB and one 115 to 29MB. I use Windows. It was very simple and your instructions were spot on. Much appreciated.