video encoding

[Anish]

Hi,
I recently edited a short film using cyberlink power director. The 15 min length film was took using a sony handicam (cant remember model). But after editing and adding effects using power director, the file size was 2.7GB (too large for 15 min).. I tried to encode using handbrake into a .mkv format but the size was only reduced to one third... its now 950MB and also, the sound leads the video and i am very much dissapointed with handbrake.. can anyone suggest me a good video encoder to convert the film to atleast 40 to 30MB to upload to youtube...

Thanks

[Cybertonic]

Try reducing the quality on handbrake. The higher the RF (Constant quality under video tab), the lower the quality and size of the video. Also, just above it is an option for you to specify what size you want the resulting video to be, in your case 40MB.

[Anish]

Thank u DK, i will try it