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I am very happy with my Handbrake settings for my final encodes but I have a video that needs to be edited first. I intend to use Vegas Pro to do this but the default encoding settings create terribly large files. I know I can experiment and find a closer bitrate to my Handbrake settings but I'd like to avoid this for simplicity. Can I still make a final encode with Handbrake without losing quality if I first encode at or above source?

Edit: My question is slightly different, I wanted to know about encoding first to a higher or equal to source bitrate and then re-encoding to a final bitrate. Based on my answer I got, it seems that unless you encode to lossless, some quality will always be lost.

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  • Possible duplicate of Does repeatedly saving a video degrade its quality?
    – Michael Liebman
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 15:34
  • Why don't you try to set the desired render settings directly in Vegas?
    – nwsp
    Commented Apr 23, 2018 at 9:50
  • @nwsp That's what I'm going to have to do. I wish there was an equivalent to Handbrake's constant quality setting in Vegas.
    – JaredSK74
    Commented Apr 23, 2018 at 16:20

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Yes, if you save your video in loseless codec. Unfortunately, this can produce very large files. Also you can try to find frameservers to avoid intermediate files, for frameservers was for older versions of Vegas, I don't know support of this feature in modern versions of Vegas.

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