Long Road Media

Transfer your files from the SD card to your Drive (saved in a file location you will be able to find later on.)
 

Open HandBrake (the icon is of a cocktail and a pineapple.)


 

Once HandBrake is open, you can click the buttons in the lefthand sidebar to upload a single file, or upload a folder of files. You can also drag and drop your files from File Explorer to convert them.


 

When your file is imported, navigate to the Video tab in the sub-window menu.
 

To convert to MP4 video, click the first drop-down menu in the Video window and select ‘H.264 (x264)’. This is the most widely compatible video format. Set your framerate to 30 in the dropdown menu, and ‘Constant’ from the tick boxes below.
 

Set the Quality Slider (on the right of the previous options) to 22 (or anything between 20-24) and make sure the Constant Quality tick box is selected.
 

Nothing else in these settings should need to be changed.
 

Next, navigate to the Audio tab in the sub-window menu.
 

In the second column, labelled ‘Codec’, click the dropdown menu and select ‘AAC (avcodec)’. This is what will make the audio from your video file usable. It is widely compatible and produces slightly higher quality audio than MP3.
 

Nothing else in these settings should need to be changed.
 

Next, navigate back to the Summary tab in the sub-window menu. This should show you the audio and video settings you have prepared to convert your file to.
 

You should see the Format is set to MP4, and the ‘Align A/V Start’ and ‘Passthru Common Metadata’ boxes ticked. These will make sure the start of your video and its sound are synced, and the recording information from the original file will be passed along to the converted file.
The Tracks should display the H.264 and 30 FPS options, as well as the AAC avcodec options you selected on the previous menus.
 

Again, make sure the file location listed at the button of the window is a location you can easily get to later on, and that the file name is one you can easily recognise (we recommend that you add ‘converted’ to the end of the original file name, so you know which original files you’ve already converted.)
 

Press the green ‘Start Encode’ button in the top menu bar (or press Ctrl+E) to convert your file and save it to your intended file location. A ‘Stop’ and ‘Pause’ button will appear, and then disappear once the film has been converted and saved. You can check the success of the conversion by clicking the ‘Queue’ button to the right of the Encode button.