For the guys who use the AppleTV preset in Handbrake - assuming you have an iPod/iPhone/Touch - do you have duplicates using the iPod High-Res preset as well? If so, how do you distinguish them in iTunes?
Vanilla
This is the major reason why I think Apple needs to ditch iTunes and create a new media-centric file management system. iTunes works for music, it doesn't work for video (especially when they are forcing users to have multiple versions of the same video for compatibility between devices). It drives me crazy to see duplicate entries in the movie list.For the guys who use the AppleTV preset in Handbrake - assuming you have an iPod/iPhone/Touch - do you have duplicates using the iPod High-Res preset as well? If so, how do you distinguish them in iTunes?
Vanilla
my main question is, do people really watch movies on their iPod?
I haven't gotten around to working on my movies yet. However, I am absolutely anal when it comes to my TV shows. I rip them myself from DVDs with carefully configured Handbrake settings. I then spend a ton of time tagging them and adding album art. Even the finder folders are all fancified.
wooooooooooow.
i also have all the futurama episodes but i havent tagged them like u have.
how i would love those stargate episodes tho hahaha. quite a collection i am quite jealous
The thing is that I am still in the process of ripping more TV shows. All in all, I have 2 or 3 times what I have in there right now. It just takes soooo long to encode everything. The great part about these though is that they not only look good on my computer and larger monitors and TVs, but also work on iPods.
oh really?? care to share what kind of quality, codec you are ripping in?
My friend and I have spent a very long time experimenting with different settings in Handbrake to determine what we consider the best possible format (for our uses at least). We wanted a single video file that would both work on iPods, look good on larger screens (we've tried up to 50" plasma and 113" projector), and a fairly small file size. Using these parameters and a lot of small test videos, I have come up with presets that work extremely well.
Keep in mind, I work mainly with TV shows, but the widescreen settings should work fine for movies.
For widescreen live-action TV shows:
x264 (h.264 iPod) encoder
Average bitrate: 1500
2-pass encoding with Turbo first pass
Output size: 640 width
Deinterlace: Slow
Detelecine: Yes, if applicable (I have found it eliminates choppy playback on Scrubs and Friends)
Advanced Settings (all but the following set to default):
Motion Estimation Method: Uneven Multi-Hexagon
For 4:3 live-action TV shows:
Same as above, but frame size can be left at full 640x480
For animated TV shows:
Same as live-action, but Denoise can be set up to medium (This helps to eliminate some macroblocking)
These settings work extremely well for all of the uses I've tried. The resulting files are around 250MB for 1/2hr TV shows, 500MB for 1hr TV shows. Like I said before, I've watched them before on very large screens and they look pretty good, and I routinely watch them on my 20" monitor and they look just as good as DVDs played with DVD Player.
ok wow thanks so much for that. i will be using them from now on
just a quick Q, what quality and format to you encode your audio at???
DoFoT9
Well, if it's available I use the 5.1 surround. But otherwise I find that the standard 128 kbps AAC sounds just great.
aaahhh ok thanking you so much.
i dont have 5.1 surround probably best to encode it like that but.
thanks again
DoFoT9
I don't have 5.1 surround either. But I'm future proofing in case I do get a 5.1 surround system.
So then what are you using for the 5.1 surround? uncompress PCM rips? (is handbrake doing that yet?) Or is the appleTV converting aac to dolby?
That's really the one thing stopping me from really caring about ripping all my dvds...
I haven't gotten around to working on my movies yet. However, I am absolutely anal when it comes to my TV shows. I rip them myself from DVDs with carefully configured Handbrake settings. I then spend a ton of time tagging them and adding album art. Even the finder folders are all fancified.
Wow! Awesome!
Where did you find the Tv show's covers ? It seems like iTunes Store cover.
Very beautiful
bye
Nico
Most of those are actually from iTunes. The iTunes artwork grabber website doesn't work for music anymore, but I found TV shows and movies still work. http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/methodtwo.php
Well if they are like me I dream of the day I can move my DVD collection to my storage locker and clear up some clutter in my condo... every square foot counts! Also I need a better excuse to eventually buy a mac mini / tvjust a question.. why do people transport the dvd's to digital when the dvd will always be better quality? i mean its not exactly that hard to put the dvd into the dvd player and watch it, is it???