Hey @miltloos @miltloos1
Can I suggest an alternative solution, sort of because I did it yesterday and it worked flawlessly.
If you can take the burden of installing ffmpeg onto your pc, then you should proceed below.
So I have a Windows 10 64bit system, and I wanted to compress a lot of my project files into manageably-sized formats. Hence, I installed ffmpeg into my system.
I put all my video files into a folder, and named the folder “Project files” and created another folder within the same directory. Next I clicked on the address bar of windows explorer and typed cmd, pressed enter.
The command prompt window opened, I typed the below code into it:
for %i in (*. mp4) do ffmpeg -i %i -c:v libx265 -c:a copy “C:\Project Files\Files\%~ni.mp4”
And pressed enter. After a couple of hours the conversion was done. The sizes reduced from 2.2GB to 400MB and the names remained the same as the original files. This was my use case.
In your case, you can do the same just change the command as:
for %i in (*.mov) do ffmpeg -i %i -c:v [libx265 or libx264 (libx265 yeilds smaller sizes than linx264)] -c:a copy “address of a different folder than source folder\%~ni.mp4”
If you’re interested, I’ll send a link to a website where I read how to install ffmpeg or you can do it yourself.
I’ll be waiting for your response!