91.18 Video Resize
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Videos files can be quite large in size and the size is not always warranted. A screencast of 30 minutes might, for example, result in a 350MB file. This can be reduced to 60MB with little or no apparent loss of quality.
To reduce the size of the video whilst retaining enough quality, try
using the h.265 video (libx265) format which compresses a
video stream whilst retaining good quality. Here a video is input to
ffmpeg with -i, converted to the video codec
H.265 using -c:v libx265 (or the alias
-vcodec), with a Constant Rate Factor of 28 using
-crf with a straight copy of the audio -c:a
copy:
This can be abbreviated as
For the constant rate factor 24–30 is a good range, with lower values giving better quality but larger files. A crf of 0 is lossless processing whilst at the other end of the scale a crf of 51 is quite lossy but a lot smaller files. Experiment by increasing or decreasing the crf to trade off quality against file size.
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