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It's okay for an entry video converter for total noobs-I thought Handbrake was for dummies-he laughs! But it lacks far too much to make it useful for my needs. The good: it's easy to work, has basic editing facilities for clips, lots of presets, bitrate control, a deinterlace option(however no option for ivtc when source is a hybrid or shows combing!) can handle any input and works in any platform of Windows-I've yet to try it in Win11 as yet. Oh and you can run it as a portable and it's free!
The bad: No audio copy so you are limited to a pretty dated ffmeg mp4 audio output prone to artifacting; no 2 pass or crf but only 1pass abr for video conversion. You can input h265 but cannot output it as such. The best slowest setting washes out video details as it oversmooths too much in the h264 preset and you cannot use a preset like film to preserve details/grain. There is no manual cropping option so you are stuck with black bars and there's a merge for vob/dvd files, but you can see the join as it is not done seamlessly. It does however manage to get aspect ratio correct, so a minor win there. I didn't find it particular fast, but using the fastest setting only outputted crap quality video as expected.
Overall I wouldn't use this again as it is so limited and out of date now.
Guess I've moved on to better things like Hybrid.
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