Handbrake - Is there a way to set a MAX file size?

ethana · Dec 24, 2012, 01:29 PM

I don't want my converted files to be over 4GB. Is there a setting somewhere to set the max file size?

ViperDesign · Dec 24, 2012, 11:06 PM

There used to be but not anymore. I usually set the slider to 23 and that gives me a file between two and five gig.

Pyromonkey83 · Dec 25, 2012, 12:00 AM

There is actually but it involves some math.

Change the settings from Constant Quality to Variable bit rate. If you are doing this, I would strongly recommend you do a 2-pass encode as well, which will double your encoding time, but give you a much better encode. You can also set turbo first pass if you like which has a very small degrade of quality and shortens your first pass by about 50%. If you are looking to have every encode less than 4GB I would say a bit rate around 3500 should get you between 2GB-4GB encodes depending on the length of the movie.

Dec 24, 2012, 01:29 PM	#1
ethana Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Seattle, WA	Handbrake - Is there a way to set a MAX file size? I don't want my converted files to be over 4GB. Is there a setting somewhere to set the max file size?
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ViperDesign macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah	There used to be but not anymore. I usually set the slider to 23 and that gives me a file between two and five gig. __________________ Verizon 32GB iPhone 5 (White), 32GB Verizon iPad 64GB Wifi, iMac 27 inch (New Version) 3.4GHz i7 1TB Fusion 32GB ram, 2x AppleTV
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Dec 25, 2012, 12:00 AM	#3
Pyromonkey83 macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2009	There is actually but it involves some math. Change the settings from Constant Quality to Variable bit rate. If you are doing this, I would strongly recommend you do a 2-pass encode as well, which will double your encoding time, but give you a much better encode. You can also set turbo first pass if you like which has a very small degrade of quality and shortens your first pass by about 50%. If you are looking to have every encode less than 4GB I would say a bit rate around 3500 should get you between 2GB-4GB encodes depending on the length of the movie.
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