Open up Handbrake, open the input video, then look at the Video settings.
Let's use Handbrake, since it's cross-platform and free and easy to use. Only re-encode the video if you really have to.Įncoding to another bitrate with Handbrake ffmpegX (old version of FFmpeg with a GUI)įirst things first: Re-encoding an already existing file will reduce its quality! This is called Generation Loss and will affect any lossy material.FFmpeg (via Homebrew and brew install ffmpeg).
The choice is yours – and on Mac OS X, you probably want to use one of these: You can use any video encoding tool to change the bitrate of an existing video.
