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Your reduced ~500Mb export could have easily been reduced further to around ~200Mb
just from experimenting with the video export options on that tab. Meaning, your
average 1 hour upload time could be slashed again in half without any apparent loss
in quality. If you're uploading regularly, this could be a real time-saver for you,
since once you've found the right optimization, you can save the settings to a
preset, which you can just select for all subsequent transcodes.
I've been using HandBrake for many years now. The best version to use is "HandBrake
Nightly" as it's their most optimized and up-to-date build: Just Google: "HandBrake
Nightly" for the official download website
Once you find your perfect settings, you can just save a "preset" template, so you
don't have to keep tweaking these options for every new video you want to
transcode.
To find out the best quality settings, it's really very easy to do. Just tweak the
video settings and then do an short test render. Make sure to change the "chapters"
dropdown menu to "seconds" and set this to a short test duration of around 30
seconds or so, to render out for testing (name each test render with the settings
you used, so you can compare them side-by-side afterwards, when deciding which is
best for your purposes).
Audio: Your Premiere Pro export default settings, are set to export your audio as:
AAC, 320kbps, 48kHz, Stereo.
As for the best video settings (under the "Video" tab), You'll have to play around
with these to find the perfect balance, and comparing the short rendered test
clips. But here are some suggestions, based upon the type of content you had in
this video (remember to use the latest version of "HandBrake Nightly" as your
version will likely be out of date.
Video Codec:
set this to: "H.265 10-bit (x265)"
...this will render the maximum video quality, at the lowest possible filesize. No
other video codecs come close to matching HEVC for quality-per-filesize.
Generally, anything between "Ultrafast" to "Fast" are good enough. However, if your
CPU can handle it, at a decent speed, then "Medium" is usually optimal for most
purposes.
One last thing, make sure to select the checkbox labeled "Fast Decode", this makes
the exported video easier to view for people with lower-powered devices, like cell
phones etc.