HandBrake

@mduell: Here's the problem. I live in NTSC land (23.97, 24, and 29.97 only). If I want to take a video from my Panasonic camera and burn it to blu ray, I have to convert it from it's native 25fps to 29.97fps. The whole NTSC vs PAL notion is entirely outdated; I'd be amazed if you could buy a BR pl...

Thanks Rodeo! Now I can move on. @mduell: Here's the problem. I live in NTSC land (23.97, 24, and 29.97 only). If I want to take a video from my Panasonic camera and burn it to blu ray, I have to convert it from it's native 25fps to 29.97fps. Same with some Region B movies and even worse with youtub...

There's 3 Veteran Users and 2 HB Team Members in this thread and nobody can tell me if I can set HB up for 3:2/bff using x264?

Surely someone can answer this simple question. Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology?

I have the up-scaling thing figured out now but it's not as straight forward as the help file appears, at least to a beginner like myself. Perhaps you could share this so other people can see. I had a post all typed out and realized I forgot one thing so I decided not to post anything until I got t...

I deleted the post that was originally here because I was going in the wrong direction completely based off erroneous information I found on the web. I have the up-scaling thing figured out now but it's not as straight forward as the help file appears, at least to a beginner like myself. I'm working...

I'm not familiar with that filter, so I'll let someone else comment on it. I can't believe I'm the only person who has a need to take those crappy youtube video's and make them a little bigger while using a 16:9 or 4:3 pad to throw on a bluray. I can't be, can I? :) On a side note, I found another ...

--preset veryslow gave an error but I noticed without it HB defaults to Medium, and then I figured out how to set the quality so it worked out. --cfr did not work without the -r command before it. If I just use --cfr it outputs a 25fps file no matter what I set --cfr to. Only way I got it to work wa...

The HB CLI is a very additive process, you can start with the most barebones command (just -i and -o) and work from there adding options to satisfy yoru whims. What options are you claiming aren't documented in the help? Yeah, that's how I got along as far as I did, just by starting with the -i -o ...

No doubt that the CLI interface must be quite powerful for the advanced user. The problem is as with all CLI programs, you have to be 100% accurate and know what you need before you even start and they assume you know a lot that is not listed in any help section anywhere. That's just not practical f...

Why does everything have to be so hard.

This CLI stuff is beyond frustrating. I know this can be done via a GUI because I have a program that will do it, but as usual, I can't get as good of an output out of it as I can with HB.

VMW6 is nice in that it will keep the original (smaller) picture size but output it in a 16:9 format. If HB could do this I would never touch VMW6 again except to do timeline editing. The HB CLI has a padding filter. Can someone point me to where I can find that info? I have searched high and low o...

musicvid wrote:Shane, I live 45 min. from Mount Evans.

I love it out there. I wanted to go out again this year but circumstances did not allow.

I'm in MO but I will live out west before I die. I prefer the warm lower desert areas and that's where I want to be. Canyonland's area.

VMW6 is nice in that it will keep the original (smaller) picture size but output it in a 16:9 format. If HB could do this I would never touch VMW6 again except to do timeline editing. The HB CLI has a padding filter. Can someone point me to where I can find that info? I have searched high and low o...

Shane, will your program create an elementary video stream with .264 or .avc extension'? If so, can I try one of yours, interlaced and UFF, bluray compliant. Sure no problem. The original file is from my old Panasonic camera and is 1280 x 720p @ 30FPS. I used the PAL Blu-Ray Compliant preset in VMW...

Coming at my issue from a different angle, here is an elementary video stream that does not re-encode in Architect, just takes a couple of minutes to mux with the audio stream. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20519276/Untitled.avc I'm not attempting to open this file in Handbrake, just to get a...

Now, the only thing left is to be able to smoothly convert 25FPS to 29.97. So far, it's been impossible. I even though about using a screen capture utility and playing the video full screen and then capturing at 29.97. Can't find a free one without a stupid watermark though. :) I was able to do thi...

Can you post your HB log of this? This is a 60 second test I just did. It takes a while to do this so I normally set up a queue and run it at night once I verify all the settings work. Here is the log from HB. This is the screenshot from AW5. The logo on the clip preview window with the letters &qu...

Please post your logs for one that authors without recompression. You will become an instant hero I promise. I bet http://www.x264bluray.com would help you even more; a regular like yourself should have no trouble mapping this to HandBrake settings :) fwiw, I saw that site and tried those command l...

Please post your logs for one that authors without recompression. You will become an instant hero I promise. I'm not sure if I understand your question, but I'll try to answer the best I can. The problem is, authoring software (I use Authoring Works 5) typically does a terrible job at re-compressio...

Hi everyone.

I just wanted to pop back in and let everyone know that this worked like a charm. I authored a disc using AW5 and it saw all the files as Smart Render and didn't have re-render a thing. I burned a disc and it works perfectly in every player I tried it in.

Thanks,

Shane

Higher RF numbers are lower quality. The quality settings aren't constant across speed presets. Thanks. I picked up on that about the higher RF numbers being lower quality. The lower the RF number the larger the output file was. By a lot. So now that I think about it I guess that confirms what I th...

Thanks Rodeo. So far with a tiny bit of tweaking, 100% of everything I've thrown at HB using your CL has produced a BR Compliant file. Am I correct in assuming that a smaller output file size doesn't necessarily mean poorer quality? I was always under the impression that the bigger the file size mea...

Ok, here's all the info. The original is a 720i rip from a bluray. This is what AW5 shows with the converted file from HB. . . . . Thanks. In regard to this post, I fixed the problem. I just discovered that there are a few settings you can alter within AW5 and this is one of them. So far, everythin...

Ummm, just lower the quality setting on the video tab... you can make the output whatever size you desire. I'll give that a try. I was getting a significantly smaller file with everything set the same way, only without the BR Compliant settings. But I'm going crosseyed tweaking things trying to get...

Well, there's one problem that nothing can solve. The compressed file that HB is making is bigger than the original, but a lot. It took a an original 7GB rip and turned it in to a 10GB file. Another question in regard to what I'm trying to do here regarding converting to B&W/Grayscale. Is HB's G...