Encoding movies to 350-400mb

[vickynash]

Hey guys i ve got a lots of collection of movies , and i wanna compress them to 350 - 400mb , with gud clarity,
i earlier used to use mediacoder to do that but the clarity is not gud when i encode movies to 350mb,
so i am wondering if this software can help me to do that , if this can wat are the settings i need to follow.
Plz help me ill be grateful to u guys

[TedJ]

You're not going to have much luck compressing movies that small with Handbrake. A 90 minute movie, even with the bitrate for audio dropped to 64 kbps, would only have an average video bitrate of ~460 kbps. Not even H.264 is going to give you decent quality with that bitrate unless you disable anamorphic and shrink the frame size down to HVGA (480x272) or less.

[vickynash]

ya i ve tried today, the clarity is really bad, so wat should i do!!!!!!!!!

[TedJ]

Accept that attempting to fit a feature film at a decent framesize into 350-400 MB is a fool's errand?

[DaveSimonH]

Accept that attempting to fit a feature film at a decent framesize into 350-400 MB is a fool's errand?

True.
I use the average bitrate setting at 1280kbps h264 and my movies are usually between 900MB & 1.5GB, even then I'd say there's room for improvement.
To give the original poster a sense of scale, when I encoded some TV I'd recorded recently the 41min episodes were 416MB+ each

[homermaster]

Wow. I have been encoding for about 10 years now and back when I had a Palm Zire 71 I encoded the movies to fit on the 320x320 screen and only had a 1 GB SD card I so I would have specified the file size to be that small to get two movies on the card. Given that the 1 GB SD card cost about $80 making the encodes smaller made sense. Now that you can get a 32 GB SD for the same price and the minimum resolution you would want to make encodes for modern portable devices at is 480 why would you need to encode anything that small?