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Table of contents
Introduction
- Quick start - Learn how to make your first video in minutes
- About HandBrake - What HandBrake is, does, and does not do
Getting HandBrake
- Where to get HandBrake - The officially supported version
- Downloading and installing HandBrake - How to get HandBrake onto your computer
- Checking for updates - Staying up to date with the latest version is easy
Making videos
- Opening a video source - How to get your videos into HandBrake
- Selecting a preset - Tailored settings for instant compatibility with many devices
- Adjusting quality - Easily increase visual quality or reduce file size
- Previewing your settings - See what your new video will look like, without waiting
- Starting encoding - 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
- 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
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
- Black bars at top/bottom or sides
- Common audio problems
- Volume level too low
- Dynamics too wide (soft whispers, loud booms)
- Example videos?
Advanced features part 2
- Formats/containers
- Video source type
- x264 tune
- May affect compatibility
- x264 tune
- Video encoding speed
- Quality affects speed
- x264 preset
- May affect compatibility
- Video angles
- Point-to-point
- Frame rate
- Same as source VFR/CFR
- Fixed VFR (peak) or CFR
- Audio quality
- 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 - What to do if something goes wrong
- Community support - Help from real people
- Activity log
HandBrake lore
- About the name HandBrake
- About the cocktail and pineapple icon
- Other esoteric information
CLI documentation
Technical documentation
- Introduction
- Not for regular use
- Source formats
- 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
- Subtitles
- Formats
- Advanced preferences