Sounds really stupid, I know, but where can I find out how to use handbrake. I don't understand what it all means on the screen. There doesn't seem to be an explanation anywhere. What I am looking for is getting the best copy. Space on my hard drive is not a problem. I have about 700 dvd's to rip.
Also at the moment, I am ripping the dvd's into my Movies folder and then dragging and dropping into iTunes. Is that correct?
Many thanks to all who answer....
New to it all
These forums are the best docs that I have found to give me insights into how to use handbrake. I recently endeavored on a project similar in scale and purpose to yours, and I have learned 2 very important things on this forum thus far:
1) Don't use deinterlacing unless you are targeting video for a mobile device, or the video looks very bad without deinterlacing. Handbrake's deinterlacing discards every other line in videos, resulting in 240 lines of res, as opposed to native 480.
2) The "quality" slider may behave differently than you expect, if you are used to CS2/After Effects/FCP/Logic/QT quality sliders. Save yourself some time and find out what it does before you use it.
"Getting the best copy" is subjective, and highly dependent on your target device. I'd spend some time with the search tab on this forum and look for posts about your device.
Having said all of that, my device is a mac mini running front row, and I have had the best luck so far with 2-pass mp4 with 2600k H264 video bitrate/and 256k AAC audio bitrate, but I am still trying out settings.
1) Don't use deinterlacing unless you are targeting video for a mobile device, or the video looks very bad without deinterlacing. Handbrake's deinterlacing discards every other line in videos, resulting in 240 lines of res, as opposed to native 480.
2) The "quality" slider may behave differently than you expect, if you are used to CS2/After Effects/FCP/Logic/QT quality sliders. Save yourself some time and find out what it does before you use it.
"Getting the best copy" is subjective, and highly dependent on your target device. I'd spend some time with the search tab on this forum and look for posts about your device.
Having said all of that, my device is a mac mini running front row, and I have had the best luck so far with 2-pass mp4 with 2600k H264 video bitrate/and 256k AAC audio bitrate, but I am still trying out settings.
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Handbrake Harry
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Handbrake Harry
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Sticky
Sorry, what do you mean "sticky"...
Many thanks
Many thanks
I stand corrected - but am surprised!
I never thought Handbrake would use the 'discard' method of deinterlacing.
I posted more about my surprise here:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopi ... =6064#6064
Side note: I've found that most recent (2001+) TV shows on DVD are shot using ntsc film standard - 23.98 progressive fps and use a pulldown telecline to achieve ntsc 29.97 interlaced fps.
So it stands: since handbrake produces progressive output, interlaced material should be deinterlaced but will result in half the verical resolution.
(or suffer a combing effect)
-sdm.
I never thought Handbrake would use the 'discard' method of deinterlacing.
I posted more about my surprise here:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopi ... =6064#6064
Side note: I've found that most recent (2001+) TV shows on DVD are shot using ntsc film standard - 23.98 progressive fps and use a pulldown telecline to achieve ntsc 29.97 interlaced fps.
So it stands: since handbrake produces progressive output, interlaced material should be deinterlaced but will result in half the verical resolution.
(or suffer a combing effect)
-sdm.
Re: Sticky
Look at the top of the forums page. There will be topics there with the word "Sticky" to the left of them. Those are stickies.Handbrake Harry wrote:Sorry, what do you mean "sticky"...
Many thanks