encoding handycam video

hit CMD+T and click on "Import" from the dropdown menu

once you import the hd_handycam.json preset, it should be automatically select from the main Preset dropdown menu in the main screen

drag and drop your videos to handbrake. it'll scan the videos initially and have them available as different titles. make sure hd_candycam preset is selected

tip

if you want to change a setting in the preset (like changing which folder to export the videos to) you dont have to go through every video and change it manually. it should apply your changes to all the videos you gave handbrake

in the toolbar, click on the Add to Queue dropdown menu and select Add All Titles To Queue

all of the queued videos are available from the Queue window. from here you can start transcoding

this preset does not use hardware acceleration, so it may be slow. (2minutes spent encoding for a 30second video on an Apple Silicon M4)

these videos can be shared to youtube, instagram, twitter, etc etc

i have a grain tuning for this preset. this leaves the digital noise in-tact without compressing it too much. useful for footage shot indoors / in the dark

if youre shooting in a bright scene (daylight, etc) then you probably want to turn this off. leaving the grain setting turned on makes for very big video files.

turn it off through the Video tab -> Encoder Options -> Tune: -> none

handbrake does encode the video as progressive, but it wont properly deinterlace the video until you tell it to.

the main preset i provided doesn't include deinterlacing because they will all soften the image. however if theres a lot of motion then there will be a lot of interlaced artifacts

the preset for deinterlaced video is here: hd_handycam_deinterlace.json