Bulk video editing software
 

What do you use for batch video conversion? I'm looking to bulk convert 4K .mov files to .mp4 (H.264 or H.265)

what os?

Have you tried doing it in Compressor?

FFmpeg
Handbrake
Adobe Media Encoder

Acrok Video Converter and handbreak are the best out of 20 I've used

Sorry, I forgot to mention..

Windows or Linux

I use FFmpeg.

FFMpeg rocks (command line thingy), but there are GUI's available as well (didn't tried them yet)

Adobe premier all the way

Handbrake, although it's a bit slow.

dont buy videocharge.
ffmpeg here

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I've tried Handbrake and FFmpeg so far. None of them can handle 4K .movs better than VLC (which is buggy as fuck, that's why I'm looking for other solutions) unless I'm doing something wrong..

i'm basically looking to compress the huge 4K .mov files without considerable loss of quality.. if that's fucking possible at all

dunno about windows, but permute for osx does it good

You're not handling 4K well in FFmpeg. I've done it hundreds of times and never had issues.

VLC is good for playing them or ripping streams but utter shit to convert videos.

I won't give my scripts free though. Contact me.

try aimersoft

i'm on mac and use wondershare

Same here. It's surprisingly easy to use. Just drag & Drop, then select your output format. At watermarks and other things too. Wondershare Software Official Website - Multimedia, Utility, Mobile

Adobe Media Encoder

Why not? works great for me, I can watermark and convert at the same time.

Not the most user friendly thing out there but once you get it set up it does the job for sure.

ffmpeg all the way. You must be typing the command in wrong. It's tricky at first but once you have it down, make a BaSH script and all future videos can be converted in one line.

Handbrake.

Its basically a GUI to FFMpeg, it can batch, you have all sorts of options as for quality settings, and you can save multiple profiles.

Create one profile with certain settings, then a second profile with other settings, run the same original with each profile, then view to decide which you like.

Can also create multiple sizes of same original in the same batch. Take one original and output to 1080p and 720p if thats what you offer members.

Another advantage is that many others use it - GFY guys and mainstream - so there are plenty of people and forums to get questions answered if you need.

I've used wonder share a lot but quality really starts to suffer using it so I'm now just doing ffmpeg/handbreak

try out permute its awesome

I did try Handbrake. It was extremely slow and didn't produce good results but I might be doing something wrong..



What settings would you use to convert a 1.5 GB 4K .mov file to .mp4 without considerable loss of quality?

I can do it with my online platforme : PinkEncode - Plateforme automatisée d'encodage vidéos - mp4, flv, avi, watermark
You send xml list with encoding param you want, videos are encoded, thumb a generate, water mark is added if you want, and i put it on your ftp.

Contact me webmaster [at] pinkmaster [dot] com for more infos

Handbrake. Not sure it's going to work for converting my million flash banners though.

h264 codec, either 20 constant quality or 3000-5000 variable bitrate depending on results and your needs for quality v. filesize.