How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!

[Chad H]

ChadH, what settings are you using? That's quite the impressive collection!

Most of my tv shows are downloaded from iTunes. But most of my movies come from my own collection and others. I use the standard apple tv setting in handbrake and only do one pass. Others are done on iSquint and highest settings. Fixing to add 5 more movies and 8gb of music as we speak.

 

[Slogan]

The font I'm using wasn't playing nice with the shelves, so I had to find a nice background to use instead.

The films highlighted in blue are HD Blu-Ray rips.

Really nice way of doing things.

I tried the same but I'm having a problem clicking some of the images that I set as icons for the folder. For example, American Pie's icon and text are clickable but some other films only have the text (below the icon) as clickable and nothing else.

Did you experience this problem?

 

[K3mp]

I am having this problem and I am sure some people on here can help. I rip my movies in the normal preset in HB. I have an TV and I mostly watch my movies on my MBP. The only problem is that with the normal preset none of the movies work on my iPhone. I was thinking about creating an iPhone version in iTunes but I was wondering if their was a better way. How does iPod High-Rez look?

 

[NiklasK]

K3mp: For all my DVD´s I use the Universal preset in Handbrake, that way you get great quality on both your Apple TV and your iPhone...

 

[adm531]

Has anyone tried the DVD ripping utility from the mupromo?

Is it any good? I think its called RipIt.

 

[northy124]

I think its called RipIt.

It is *****

Comparisons are way off, MTR did not take 1 Hr+ to rip Hancock and Mr & Mrs Smith.

 

[weldon]

I like RipIt. I've been using it for some time, and it is frequently updated with fixes for specific movies that are problematic. I like to rip everything first and then encode in batches, so this works better for me than encoding straight from the disc using Handbrake and VLC.

 

[K3mp]

Has anyone tried the DVD ripping utility from the mupromo?

Is it any good? I think its called RipIt.

It is awesome.

 

[courtnej]

Hello there, I want to make all my videos so they can be played on both apple tv and my iphone - is there a format that works for both or do you have to make two copies of all your videos?

Cheers

 

[dynaflash]

Hello there, I want to make all my videos so they can be played on both apple tv and my iphone - is there a format that works for both ...

HandBrake's Apple -> Universal preset.

 

[courtnej]

Cheers for that, I hadnt updated my presents and thus didnt see that available

 

[courtnej]

So ive tried converting videos already on my mac, rather than from dvd, and it just crashes everytime

 

[pb1300]

I have Mactheripper and Handbrake, along with 300 DVDs waiting to be ripped to my iTunes. So are those programs the way to go, or is there something easier?

 

[K3mp]

At first I did not have the universal preset so I had to it update presets. Thanks for letting me know such a thing exists.

 

[jimmypopjr]

Don't know how I missed this thread for so long. This is awesome to see as much enthusiasm for AppleTV/iTunes collections as I have!

I'm currently in the process of getting my entire collection ripped. Just got a mac pro, so it's going a lot quicker than it was with my mini. Haven't finished yet, but I've got somewhere around 400+ movies and... a ton of TV shows/episodes. Once I'm done with the ripping/converting, then I will start in on the tagging, which will be arduous.

Ah well!

 

[NUFC2025]

Well thanks guys

Lastly, the DVD cases and CD cases (used to seperate the Seasons of the TV shows) can be found on DeviantArt. Then its the task of hunting down HQ covers and artwork, and turning them into icons.

And then what do you do with the icons?

 

[eVolcre]

Just wanted to say a quick thanks for all the info in this thread. I've started my digitizing project and doing it right the first time will save me some time down the road.

I'm burning the DVDs using ripit and lining up a queue of movies to handbrake at night. Once they are encoded using the Apple TV preset, I'm running each movie through MetaX and then *option* importing it to iTunes giving me the flexibility of moving the media files to an external drive if I run out of space.

I'm OCD about organization and glad to see I'm not alone

eV

 

[eVolcre]

How are you all displaying name of the movie + genre (below the name) in iTunes?

I have the artwork etc. showing just like the pics but only the name in bold shows under the movie icon. I'd like the genre to show as well

eV

 

[jkimbro0316]

I've been handbraking like crazy for the past month but I think I've got most of my collection in iTunes finally. I'm running out of titles!

 

[jimmypopjr]

Finally finished my 500+ movie collection last weekend. Now I'm on to my TV shows. I'm able to do a whole series in a matter of hours, so I think I'll get through this pretty quickly. Can't wait to have everything done and post some screens up here.

 

[EMKarelia]

I don't even have any movies on my itunes. Mostly just 60,000 songs. Movies I save it a different folder out of itunes.

 

[shuffle1]

About to start!

Hi Gang,

I'm about to start converting my DVDs, but I was hoping you could answer a couple of quick questions for me. I have about 500 DVDs and just from doing one of them in HB tonight, it seems like this could honestly take a year or two! Am I off on this, or do those of you who've converted 400-500 DVDs have a faster way than I know about?

I assume one of my problems is that I'm using a 2.66 GHz MBP instead of a faster machine, but do you have any tips for me? How many DVDs can you convert in a day? Should I first rip them in MTR and then queue up a few TS Folders for it to work on overnight, so I could pretty much get 3 a day done or so?

One last thing. If I want to have everything (outtakes, behind the scenes, making of, etc) on the DVD available to me, can I only use a Mini, and the TS Folder?

Oh, one more, last thing! Can you tell a huge difference between 1 pass and 2 pass?

Thanks so much for all your help on this new endeavor!

Best,

shuffle1

 

[DoFoT9]

I assume one of my problems is that I'm using a 2.66 GHz MBP instead of a faster machine, but do you have any tips for me? How many DVDs can you convert in a day? Should I first rip them in MTR and then queue up a few TS Folders for it to work on overnight, so I could pretty much get 3 a day done or so?

YES YES YES! use MTR and then queue them up!! save 100gbs worth of movies and then let them convert for a few days. much easier!

One last thing. If I want to have everything (outtakes, behind the scenes, making of, etc) on the DVD available to me, can I only use a Mini, and the TS Folder?

that will most def work, DVD Player in OSX can read TS Folders as if its a real DVD. the whole menu and everything will be presented to you!! saves ripping too, but of course uses up more space.

Oh, one more, last thing! Can you tell a huge difference between 1 pass and 2 pass?

personally, yes i can tell. there is a lot more blocking and artifacting. try a few movies and check out the difference between the "action" scenes, you will notice it too

what bitrate/quality will you be encoding with??

goodluck!

 

[Chase R]

I will tell you that these are all DivX/XviD rips. I use MPEG Streamclip to save them into a MOV container and then import into iTunes.

 

[shuffle1]

YES YES YES! use MTR and then queue them up!! save 100gbs worth of movies and then let them convert for a few days. much easier!



that will most def work, DVD Player in OSX can read TS Folders as if its a real DVD. the whole menu and everything will be presented to you!! saves ripping too, but of course uses up more space.



personally, yes i can tell. there is a lot more blocking and artifacting. try a few movies and check out the difference between the "action" scenes, you will notice it too

what bitrate/quality will you be encoding with??

goodluck!

Thanks so much for all the info! At first I was using the iPod Hi-Res because I saw on the net that it would look good on the iPod and TV, but tried the Universal Preset yesterday and it looks GREAT. Definitely worth the extra few hundred megs. If only I could get subtitles to work in Handbrake, I'd be a happy camper. Tried converting "Severance" (fun horror, btw!) yesterday and the first scene is with two foreign girls talking with English subtitles, but I can never get them to show up, and I've tried 3 times. I've clicked every permutation of "Forced Subtitles", "Autoselect", "English", etc, but it never works. They are only in that scene, but...

shuffle1