Handbrake fills up my C Drive !

[Bojidar Kobakov]

Hello. So i am a youtuber i am using after effects to render my videos (i render them as .mov) the rendered file comes up pretty big so i am using a program called handbrake to compress the file and make it smaller. But after doing that it takes almost 5-4 to gigabytes from my C drive and the laptop starts getting slow. i tried many ways to clean everything (media cache files, temp files, e.t.c) almost every way. A friend of mine suggested me using WinDirStart to find the problem. But it didn't fix it at all. Thanks in advance

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Well, first up, I'm assuming that you're using handbrake correctly with the settings and such for the proper levels of compression for the filetype you're converting it to. If not, trying adjusting the compression settings to see if it reduces the file size down. Any time you're working with video there's always a tradeoff between file size and compression levels, so you have to find that happy medium where the quality/filesize ratio is acceptable to you.

As for the computer getting slow, handbrake is a good multi-threaded program which will utilize all cores available to get the job done. Depending on your laptop specs - unless you have a quad core hyperthreaded i7, it's going to slow things down. You can adjust the rendering settings to only utilize as many cores as you want if I'm not mistaken to keep your laptop running a bit smoother but it will increase render time.

To be honest, using a laptop to render videos (unless it's a high-powered workstation designed for it) will result in slowdowns because a laptop is geared towards lighter usage while a full desktop machine is better suited towards rendering and a decent i5 quad will rip through videos at a vastly increased speed. Plus, with a desktop you can have a dedicated OS drive and a big, dedicated drive for processing videos.

tldr; It's a laptop, not really designed for video work. Build a small desktop for dedicated video processing.

 

[mamasan2000]

What you are supposed to do with Windir is finding the folder that takes up all the space, if its videoediting tempfiles.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Bojidar Kobakov,

You can adjust your System Restore settings. Reduce the amount of space allocated to it. You can delete previous restore points as well.
Also, check these out: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

 

[Bojidar Kobakov]

Thank you all for your answers but i want to know why is it taking so much space is it creating cache files if it is where can i locate them and delete them.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

If I remember handbrake, it does a few different steps in sequence and can take up a fair amount of disk space. Video takes up a lot of room depending on the format, no way around it.

 

[Bojidar Kobakov]

But can i bring back my old disk space do i need to delete smth or what ?