I agree that this is one of my most used pieces of "freeware". In fact, so much so that I felt bad not contributing something. Then I discovered that the author does have a Paypal account setup for people that want to help him buy new hardware to develop for / on. If you get as much out of his work as I do, I encourage you to help him out with whatever you can afford. I hardly have an H.264 MPEG-4 file in my collection that I didn't use Handbrake to create. It really works very well.
If you haven't used it before, here is what I do and it hasn't let me down yet. First, I tell it to open the VIDEO_TS folder of the movie I want to compress. Then I click the browse button to select where I want to save the final movie. Next, I change the file format to "AVC/H.264 Video/AAC Audio", keep framerate "same as source", set encoder to "x264 Main Profile" and set the average bitrate to 700. Then I check off the dual pass option and click on the "Picture settings" button. There I step through the movie just looking for the tell tale lines of an interlace problem. If I find them, I click the option to de-interlace, otherwise I don't do anything. It has always cropped everything correctly all by itself (which not a lot of programs do). The last thing I do is either rip, or add it to the queue if I have more than 1 movie to rip. If you follow these instructions, you will get perfect results every time.
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I agree that this is one of my most used pieces of "freeware". In fact, so much so that I felt bad not contributing something. Then I discovered that the author does have a Paypal account setup for people that want to help him buy new hardware to develop for / on. If you get as much out of his work as I do, I encourage you to help him out with whatever you can afford. I hardly have an H.264 MPEG-4 file in my collection that I didn't use Handbrake to create. It really works very well.If you haven't used it before, here is what I do and it hasn't let me down yet. First, I tell it to open the VIDEO_TS folder of the movie I want to compress. Then I click the browse button to select where I want to save the final movie. Next, I change the file format to "AVC/H.264 Video/AAC Audio", keep framerate "same as source", set encoder to "x264 Main Profile" and set the average bitrate to 700. Then I check off the dual pass option and click on the "Picture settings" button. There I step through the movie just looking for the tell tale lines of an interlace problem. If I find them, I click the option to de-interlace, otherwise I don't do anything. It has always cropped everything correctly all by itself (which not a lot of programs do). The last thing I do is either rip, or add it to the queue if I have more than 1 movie to rip. If you follow these instructions, you will get perfect results every time.
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