Save space on HD phone videos

recodevid.sh

#!/bin/bash
# this script recodes phone videos to a lower bitrace encoding to save space.
# phones typically encode at a very high bitrate because they don't have enough
# CPU power to do a more compressed encoding in real time.

# generally this recoding does not affect perceived video quality.

# USAGE: encodevid.sh [path]
QUALITY=26.0
INPATH=$1
OUTPATH="${1%*.}-recoded-at-$QUALITY.${1##*.}"

echo "Recoding $INPATH -> $OUTPATH with q=$QUALITY..."
/Applications/HandBrakeCLI \
  --format av_mp4 --encoder x264 \
  --encoder-tune film --vfr \
  --quality $QUALITY --aencoder \
  copy --keep-display-aspect \
  -i "$INPATH" -o "$OUTPATH"