Need some help on Video Encoding

[Capcom]

Are there any Video Encoding Gurus sa mga fellow menyeks ?

I need to downscale some movies encoded with 1080p to 720p (h.264) , problem is that re-encoding would result in loss in quality , tried using higher bit rates and other optimizations , pero result is malaki yung file size

Meron bang way to downscale it without losing quality ? as in maintain yung bitrate at etc

Wala na kasi yung source ng raw video sa akin...

[popoy]

Qualitywise, your goal should be the same as other 720p releases.  From 1080p to 720p - meron talaga loss.

[kortzh]

er, why would you want to convert 1080p to 720p? to play on older machines perhaps?

anyway, i prefer xilisoft video converter for ease of use.. i can configure audio and video quality and auto-calculate corresponding video bit rate, and hence customize the output file size..

it would have been nice to use CUDA with badaboom, but my computer crashes after installation.. i wonder what's wrong..

[dean]

resurrecting this thread:

i have a bunch of family videos taken using our P&S camera at home and it's eating up too much space...and i was thinking of encoding them to a different format so i can save up on space without compromising too much the quality.  any suggestions? thanks so much!

[calvin]

 HEVC/H.265 maybe?

[barurutor]

What format are the videos stored as presently?

[jeremypv]

For me, just add storage, 2Tb drives are around ~3k

[dean]

What format are the videos stored as presently?

they're currently .mp4s in 720p since they're straight from the digicam.

any suggested/recommended program to convert them into something that saves more space? doesn't have to be the best in quality since they're just family videos.

[barurutor]

Given that they're mp4 files they're most likely using h.264 compression already. If you want smaller file size you'll have to compress them using hevc/h.265, which is time consuming, has no guarantee of preserving the quality, and not as portable to play. Better to save for an external drive for backup/archival purposes.