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Tiffanys:
I need some help with encoding... I've been either using in-game video captures or fraps to get videos and then running them through H.264 Encoder as 720p to lower their size. The general purpose is to retain good quality while significantly lowering the file size to a more realistic level. Something 7 minutes long in 720p shouldn't be 500MB.

This is where I am failing. I've tried the above mentioned program and Handbrake (maybe I don't know how to use Handbrake properly) and I've had horrendous results. Handbrake can't even encode for some reason most the time, it just crashes, and it's always horrid quality no matter the settings. The H.264 Encoder is more reliable it seems, but it does crap quality and way higher file sizes than necessary.

All I want to do is upload clips from animes/movies or recordings from games in either 420p or 720p to YouTube at good quality but decent file size.

I know it has to just be me, because I've seen a ton of stuff in 420p that's crystal clear, and 720p too (and good file sizes). It just seems crappy that the stuff I try to do results in a really pixelated blurry mess.

I'm obviously not very good at encoding. So, if you could just tell me what program and its settings to use, I'd really appreciate it... T.T

rostheferret:
I find handbrake slow and clunky, get AviDemux instead.

Open up the file, under the Video toggle set it to the MPEG-4 AVC codec (x264), apply any filters you want (if it's an interlaced source, you might want to run it through a yadif de-interlacer; if it needs cropping you can set that, noisy run the noise filter, change the aspect ratio, etc, etc, etc). Then under configure you have the options for encoding style. If you have a set size in mind, then two a two pass by size. Otherwise do a two pass by average bitrate (high quality encoded films from a DVD usually end up between 1400 and 1500kbps, as a ballpark figure to start playing around with). The only thing I'd bear in mind with the two pass-size setting is that the size only applies to the video, the audio gets lumbered on top of that.

Don't forget to change the format and you have to specify that you want to save it as .mkv for some odd reason.

Tiffanys:
edit: Found where to download it... messing with it now... thanks

edit: Still getting super crappy results.... could you maybe give me some settings that generally produce good results?

Temuthril:
Give a screenshot of the settings.

Does whatever you use allow you to specify the command line used?

arcsear:
had same problems with handbrake 0.9.4 crashing on encodes changed to HandBrake-svn3154-Win_GUI encodes worked great once settings were tweaked

this is using constant quality and default video filters file comes out less than half original size with little to no noticable quality loss hope it helps

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