Recoder — Help Guide

Recoder is a minimal, user-friendly tool for batch video transcoding. This quick guide walks you through using the app.

🚀 Getting Started

When you open Recoder, you’ll see a prompt inviting you to drop a video file or folder:

📂 Dropping Files or Folders

You can drop one video file or one folder containing video files onto the app.
The folder can have subdirectories, but Recoder will not process files recursively. Only files in the dropped folder itself will be processed.
Non-video files will be ignored.

🔧 Preparing to Transcode

After you drop a folder into Recoder, it will list all the video files it found:

A blue Transcode button appears once the files are ready to process.
The Clear icon is always available — click it to cancel everything and reset the app if you're done or need to start over.
The menu button gives access to Preferences and Help.

🎬 Transcoding

Click the Transcode button to start processing. While transcoding:

The blue Transcode button is replaced by a Pause button, allowing you to temporarily stop the process.
If paused, the button changes to Resume, so you can continue when you're ready.
The Clear button can also be used during transcoding to cancel the process entirely and clear the current session.

By default:

Transcoded files are saved into the same directory as the source, inside a subfolder named {{source_folder_name}}-transcoded.
File names remain the same as the originals but with a .mov extension.

⚙️ Preferences

In Preferences, you can customize the single output folder path where transcoded files will be saved. This path controls both the folder’s location and name. You can use:

{{source_folder_name}} to reuse the original folder name
Relative paths like ../done/
Absolute paths like /mnt/Export/
~ to refer to your home directory
Simple names like output to create a folder inside the source folder
Any combination of the above, e.g. ../{{source_folder_name}}-dnxhd

💡 Notes

Make sure you have enough free space on your drive because both the original and transcoded files are kept, and transcoded files may be larger.

If you need more help, check the GitHub repository or open an issue.

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