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Besides the wide array of video formats the software supports, there are some other perks to using Handbrake. Especially when you are a carrier of mobile multimedia devices such as iPhones, iPads or other phones and media players, Handbrake will quickly become your best friend. For Apple devices, the software is ready to use straight out of the box with many presets already put in place. Even when upgraded, in most cases it will present presets for more classic Apple products such as iPods and older generation
iPhone devices.
When you want to use Handbrake for other purposes, it is easy to configure the software to play nice with your preferred media carrier. Configurations are made in the following categories:
- Picture, with options to assign a new aspect ratio and crop the source.
- Video Filters, where you will be able to alter such settings as "Detelecine," "Decomb," "Deinterlace," "Denoise" and "Deblock."
- Video, where you can choose your Video Codec, Framerate or Quality.
- Audio is where you will set your Source, Audio Codec, Mixdown, Samplerate, Bitrate and DRC. You can also select separate audio tracks to be added to the video.
- Subtitles is where you can choose your subtitle file to be added to the video and select whether or not it should be burned in. In general, you will use SRT files for this part.
- Chapters is where you will indicate the chapter markers in your output video result.
- Advanced is the last batch of settings where you will be able to alter aspects in the field of Encoding, Analysis and Psychovisual.
Although it might require you to find out the exact settings for your particular device at first, Handbrake makes it easy for you to save those settings and create custom filters to automate the conversion in future cases. Better still, this process is further enhanced by the built-in option to batch-convert your video projects, although this is done through a queue mechanism.
So whatever your task is in terms of video conversion, there is a good chance that Handbrake will be up to task. It will provide you with an ease of use rarely found in video conversion applications, making the process accessible for those that would normally steer clear from these kinds of applications. Now you can easily take your video content with you on the go and enjoy your movies, as you should!
