THE TECHNICAL STUFF – My Test TV is a 42″ Samsung 1080 HD.

THE GOAL – To produce the highest quality video with the smallest possible file size, whilst creating a 5.1 Digital Sound Track that is compatible with most players and TV’sĭISCLAIMER – This method will produce very nice quality videos, but may take SEVERAL hours to process each hour of video! Unfortunately, good quality video with small file size cant be done quickly, it just doesn’t work that way. 1 Open source file in Handbrake and make sure you are on the “Summary” tabĢ Set file format to “MP4’ and deselect “Passthru Common Metadata”ģ Click “Dimensions” tab and set Resolution Limit to 1080p and leave Anamorphic as Automatic, leave cropping “Automatic” and borders “None”ĥ Leave Interlace Detection set to Default, De-interlace set to Decomb, and Preset at “Default”ħ Select “H.264 (x264)” from the Video Codec drop downġ0 Set “Encoder Preset” slider to “Very Slow”ġ3 Set “Encoder Level” to “4.1” – If this wont play on your system drop it back to “3.1”ġ4 Set the “Constant Quality” slider to “24”ġ5 In the “Additional Options” box add ref=5:bframes=5ġ7 Select the preferred 7.1 or 5.1 channel soundtrackġ8 Set “Codec” to “AC3” and the Bitrate to 448kbġ9 Set Mixdown to “5.1 Channels” and Samplerate to “48”Ģ1 Click the “X” in the circle at the right side to remove the subtitles track on Windows, or select “None” from dropdown on MacĢ3 Uncheck the “Create Chapter Markers” option if you don’t want them or leave it checked if you doĢ4 Give your output file a unique name and save it somewhere easy to findĢ5 Make a preset to save the settings and Press the Green “Start Encode” button

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