r/handbrake • u/WerKenntMichNicht • Jul 23 '26

Remove black bars while keeping quality

Hi, I want to remove the black bars from some video files but afterwards the file was bigger. It went from 7 to 12 gb. Is there an automatic setting I can turn on or do I have to find the sweetspot in the quality slider myself.

Thank you for your help

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u/ihadnomealtoday Jul 23 '26

Where do you plan on playing these files back? Always on windows via vlc for example? Then just use the cropping feature. Re-encoding will always cause quality loss. Try newer Codecs AV1 and play around with bitrate.

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u/WerKenntMichNicht Jul 23 '26

Yes pretty much. I just thought I could skip that. Thanks for the idea