<p>You can only estimate the bitrate as proportion of your crop. If you have 30,000 Kbps for 1920*1080 pixel, then for 1080*1080 pixel this would mean 16,875 Kbps. If there is more complexity inside the crop region than outside, I would even increase the target bitrate further.</p>

<p>However, if your videos are not that long and not intended for streaming I wouldn't invest too much thought into saving some disk space. The video quality will degrade anyway with the encoding process and a high bitrate will help you avoiding too much loss.</p>

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That's what I was afraid of.  It's not easy being a pedant trying to find the absolute perfect bitrate to yield the best quality/disk space ratio.  I'll probably just use original bitrate in the new video for good measure, though using the proportional calculation would probably be just as good.
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<p>I have some videos I recorded with my cell phone that I want to crop using Avisynth's <code>crop()</code>.  I am using x264vfw with VirtualDub which asks for a target bitrate.  I usually just get the bitrate from the vid's properties in Windows Explorer and plug that value in for the target bitrate for the new encoded video, but, since I am cropping it, I don't want to use the full bitrate.  Ideally, I would be able to find out the bitrate of only the region I am wishing to crop.  After all, if the original video is 1920x1080 with a total bitrate of 30 mbps (30,000 kbps) and I want to crop it down to a 1080x1080 region, I don't want to use the bitrate of the full, uncropped video.</p>

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Is there a way to get the bitrate of a specific region of a video?
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# Is there a way to get the bitrate of a specific region of a video?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-09-19)

I have some videos I recorded with my cell phone that I want to crop using Avisynth's `crop()`. I am using x264vfw with VirtualDub which asks for a target bitrate. I usually just get the bitrate from the vid's properties in Windows Explorer and plug that value in for the target bitrate for the new encoded video, but, since I am cropping it, I don't want to use the full bitrate. Ideally, I would be able to find out the bitrate of only the region I am wishing to crop. After all, if the original video is 1920x1080 with a total bitrate of 30 mbps (30,000 kbps) and I want to crop it down to a 1080x1080 region, I don't want to use the bitrate of the full, uncropped video.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-09-19. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

You can only estimate the bitrate as proportion of your crop. If you have 30,000 Kbps for 1920\*1080 pixel, then for 1080\*1080 pixel this would mean 16,875 Kbps. If there is more complexity inside the crop region than outside, I would even increase the target bitrate further.

However, if your videos are not that long and not intended for streaming I wouldn't invest too much thought into saving some disk space. The video quality will degrade anyway with the encoding process and a high bitrate will help you avoiding too much loss.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: That's what I was afraid of.  It's not easy being a pedant trying to find the absolute perfect bitrate to yield the best quality/disk space ratio.  I'll probably just use original bitrate in the new video for good measure, though using the proportional calculation would probably be just as good.  

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