I've been experimenting with bitrate vs. file size in HB, and for a full-lenght movie, there seems to be a fairly easy-to-remember correlation between bitrate and file size: when I used the bitrate of 512 kbps, the output H.264 MP4 turned out about half a gig in size (a bit too big).
With the bitrate of 400, I got a 416 MB file, with the quality still very good. I'll try with 256 kpbs next to see if the quality still remains acceptable.
A couple of Handbrake experiments
I've been experimenting with bitrate vs. file size in HB, and for a full-lenght movie, there seems to be a fairly easy-to-remember correlation between bitrate and file size: when I used the bitrate of 512 kbps, the output H.264 MP4 turned out about half a gig in size (a bit too big).
With the bitrate of 400, I got a 416 MB file, with the quality still very good. I'll try with 256 kpbs next to see if the quality still remains acceptable.