I’d like to compress my videos without using the terminal, what is the best GUI today that can do this?
Is this kind of program popular on linux? I know that ffmpeg is very popular on the terminal
Handbrake is great.
Handbrake is great. But I would also recommend using Kdenlive. It is a video editor but if you just open your video in it and just export the project, you will get some good output format options.
When I realized I could just make high quality GIFs with KDEnlive it was a game changer.
How is your experience with exporting GIFs in terms of file size? They tend to run larger than, say, mp4 files, right?
I use Shotcut btw.
GIFs exported in the original file resolution are usually pretty damn big, but I don’t like giant GIFs myself, so I’ve found the 480x270 to be a good size to keep most of them below 25 megabytes.
I recommend using WebM container with VP9 codec instead of GIF if you are exporting it for web. It even supports alpha.
Handbrake is good for a few files, but I still prefer ffmpeg when doing a large batch.
You can batch processes in handbrake.
8mb.video
Shutter Encoder
I use Shotcut for more or less any video operations that require re-encoding. It’s great for basic editing but also simple transcoding jobs too