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How to deal with title in Handbrake?

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chris650

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Most of my educational DVD are in ISO format. As Handbrake sees it, each lecture on the disk is one title, and it converts one title to a destinationfile at a time.

How do I convert the entire disk (iso file) to one file in Handbrake?chris650
 
You can't, you can add one title to the Queue and then add another title and so on and transcode only per title, but Handbrake will not join all files into one. You might be able to use another application to join them. Maybe QT X can help you with that, or even iMovie.
 
spinnerlys said:
You can't, you can add one title to the Queue and then add another title and so on and transcode only per title, but Handbrake will not join all files into one. You might be able to use another application to join them. Maybe QT X can help you with that, or even iMovie.
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Do you know if iMovie do transcoding from ISO file? and do batch or queue?
 
chris650 said:
Do you know if iMovie do transcoding from ISO file? and do batch or queue?
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It will not do any of those.

Btw, .iso is not a video format/container, it is a format to store an image of a CD or DVD inside to burn further CDs or DVDs from it.

Does that mean, you have a DVD with an .iso file on it or you have an .iso file containing the video DVD (Video_TS/Audio_TS folders)?

And iMovie will not work with .vob files either, you need to transcode the material to either .mov (via MPEG Streamclip and the QT MPEG-2 Playback Component) or .mp4 (using H264 as a codec via Handbrake), but the .mp4 format is not ideal.

In order for you to edit your videos stored on the video DVD, you need to rip it via MacTheRipper/RipIt/Fairmount, if the video DVD is copy protected (all commercial video DVDs are). If it is not copy protected, you might be just able to copy the Video_TS folder onto your HDD. Now there are two ways to convert the MPEG-2 compressed footage.

1. Get Handbrake and convert the footage to an .mp4/.m4v file with the H264 codec.
Further reading on Handbrake on transcodding video for iMovie.
Then use MPEG Streamclip to convert/export the .avi or .mp4/.m4v file to a QuickTime (.mov - CMD+E) file encoded with the DV codec or the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) or to a DV file (CMD+OPTION/ALT+E). Both, .mov and .dv, can be read by iMovie.

2. Get the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component from the Apple Online Store for 20USD, open MPEG Streamclip, in there go to File > Open DVD and select your Video_TS folder on your HDD. Then either export it as QuickTime with the DV codec or AIC or as DV file as explained in step 1. This saves you one encoding process, therefore time and image quality loss.


Screenshots:

MPEG Streamclip export options
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Handbrake export as .mp4 - example
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spinnerlys said:
You can't, you can add one title to the Queue and then add another title and so on and transcode only per title, but Handbrake will not join all files into one. You might be able to use another application to join them. Maybe QT X can help you with that, or even iMovie.
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I don't know if QuickTime X will do this, but I know QT 7 will. I ripped a DVD that was a two disk set (part of the movie on each disk) and used QT 7 to join the two MP4 files. I think this may have saved it as a .mov file. You can install it from Snow Leopard install disk if you have it. Maybe on the regular restore disk if your computer came with SL?
 
Ok. My issue is that I only have ISO files.... the dvd are stored somewhere else.

Now, how do I transconde one iso file (with several titles within) to one file that can be used by airvideo, etc.????
 
never done it, but you can decode each title into separate m4v's and then stitch them in imovie.
 
there has got to be a more direct, simple way to do this batch job
 
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