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Title: Table of contents
Project: HandBrake
Project_URL: https://handbrake.fr/
Project_Version: Latest
Language: English
Language_Code: en
Text_Encoding: utf-8
Authors: Bradley Sepos
Copyright: 2016 HandBrake Team
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
License_URL: https://handbrake.fr/docs/license.html
---
Table of contents
=================
## Introduction
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- [Quick start](introduction/quick-start.html) - Learn how to make your first video in minutes
- [About HandBrake](introduction/about.html) - What HandBrake is, does, and does not do
## Getting HandBrake
- [Where to get HandBrake](get-handbrake/where-to-get-handbrake.html) - The officially supported version
- [Downloading and installing HandBrake](get-handbrake/download-and-install.html) - How to get HandBrake onto your computer
- [Checking for updates](get-handbrake/check-for-updates.html) - Staying up to date with the latest version is easy
## Making videos
- [Opening a video](workflow/open-video.html) - How to get your videos into HandBrake
- [Selecting a preset](workflow/select-preset.html) - Tailored settings for instant compatibility with many devices
- [Adjusting quality](workflow/adjust-quality.html) - Easily increase visual quality or reduce file size
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- [Previewing your settings](workflow/preview-settings.html) - See what your new video will look like, without waiting
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- [Starting encoding](workflow/start-encoding.html) - Start encoding your new video with one click
## Advanced features
- Multiple jobs using the queue
- Custom presets
- Modifying audio and subtitle defaults
- Resizing video
- Downscaling only
- Preserving surround sound
- Formats: ac3, dts, etc.
- Passthru: devices and compatiblity
- Dynamic range control
- Downmixing
- Adding subtitles
- Language or forced
- Burned-in or text (source dependent)
- Adding external subtitles
- Chapter markers
- Renaming chapters
- Importing and exporting chapters
- Post-processing metadata with Subler, others?
## Restoration and enhancement
- Common video problems
- Black bars at top/bottom or sides
- Cropping
- Combing effects caused by interlacing or telecine
- Detelecine filter
- Decomb filter vs. Deinterlace filter
- Bob mode and frame rates, motion
- May affect compatibility
- Noise (grainy appearance and/or color splotches)
- Denoise filters: NLMeans and HQDN3D
- Blocky picture
- Deblock filter
- Stretched picture (too wide or too tall)
- Scaling and anamorphic
- May affect compatibility
- Common audio problems
- Volume level too low
- Dynamics too wide (soft whispers, loud booms)
- Example videos?
## Advanced features part 2
May affect compatiblity! Use a preset!
- Formats/containers
- Video source type
- x264 tune
- May affect compatibility
- Video encoding speed
- Quality affects speed
- x264 preset
- May affect compatibility
- Video angle
- Point-to-point
- Frame rate
- Same as source VFR/CFR
- Fixed VFR (peak) or CFR
- Audio quality (bitrate)
- Affects file size, though not as much as video quality
- Adjustments may impact compatibility (recommend to leave alone)
- Audio defaults
- Subtitle defaults
- Automatic file naming
- Web optimized
- iPod 5G support
## Getting help
- Troubleshooting common issues
- [Community support](help/community-support.html) - Help from real people
- Activity log
- Required for support, see Getting help
## HandBrake lore
- About the name HandBrake
- About the cocktail and pineapple icon
- Other esoteric information
## CLI documentation
- CLI documentation
## Technical documentation
- Introduction
- Not for regular use
- [Source formats](technical/source-formats.html)
- Containers
- Known issue: MP4 edit lists
- Video
- Codecs
- x264 presets, tunes, and custom settings
- x264 profile and level
- Constant quality versus average bit rate
- VFR/PFR, CFR, custom frame rates
- Advanced picture and filters
- Anamorphic modes
- Modulus
- Custom filter settings
- Audio
- Codecs: autodetection, read/passthru
- Known issue: Dolby Atmos
- Gain
- DRC
- Mixdown
- Subtitles
- Formats
- Advanced preferences