App for converting movies?

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• Reply 1 of 8

  kishan Posts: 732member

  November 10, 2009 9:20PM

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  Originally Posted by Digital Disasta
  
  
  I have a pretty big movie collection that I have not imported into iTunes yet. I am looking to take all of the movies on my hard drive, and all my DVDs and converting them to MP4 (I'm done playing with VLC, Quick Time, Divx, and all that other crap). Does anyone know any software that will take my movie files that I have on my hard drive, and the DVDs I own, and convert them to MP4? I'm looking to keep the quality as best as possible with the smallest file size, so I can stream them to my TV and put some on my 64GB iPod Touch.
  

  
  

  
  
  Consider Handbrake.
  
  
  
  Also, doesn't Quicktime X handle this?
• Reply 2 of 8

  kingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member

  November 10, 2009 9:50PM

  Quote:
  

  Originally Posted by Kishan
  
  
  ...Also, doesn't Quicktime X handle this?
  

  
  

  
  
  Yes, but without as much control, and at half the speed of Handbrake.
• Reply 3 of 8

  digital disasta Posts: 495member

  November 11, 2009 9:25AM

  I tried handbrake, but for some reason it keeps crashing on me.
• Reply 4 of 8

  bbwi Posts: 812member

  November 11, 2009 6:36PM

  Handbrake is what you want. Use to work great for me but ever since they're last update it now takes hours and hours and hours to encode a movie so I gave up on it
• Reply 5 of 8

  Marvin Posts: 15,324moderator

  November 12, 2009 11:00AM

  You can rip them using MacTheRipper or similar and then encode them using isquint or visualhub if you can get hold of them. They have been discontinued officially but they still work and are pretty fast. They are being made into this program:
  
  
  
  http://www.transcoder-redux.com
  
  
  
  but it's still developing. If you use the itunes format with H264 checked and 1Mbps bitrate, you can get the MP4 file sizes pretty small and the quality is good - remember to check the deinterlace checkbox in the advanced section. Plus, because it's a batch encoder, you can leave it running overnight. You can use 720 x 480 with bars or 720 x 405. 640 x 360 or 640 x 480 with bars is fine if you plan to use it for ipod viewing - you won't have to encode twice.
• Reply 6 of 8

  digital disasta Posts: 495member

  November 12, 2009 2:36PM

  Quote:
  

  Originally Posted by Marvin
  
  
  You can rip them using MacTheRipper or similar and then encode them using isquint or visualhub if you can get hold of them. They have been discontinued officially but they still work and are pretty fast. They are being made into this program:
  
  
  
  http://www.transcoder-redux.com
  
  
  
  but it's still developing. If you use the itunes format with H264 checked and 1Mbps bitrate, you can get the MP4 file sizes pretty small and the quality is good - remember to check the deinterlace checkbox in the advanced section. Plus, because it's a batch encoder, you can leave it running overnight. You can use 720 x 480 with bars or 720 x 405. 640 x 360 or 640 x 480 with bars is fine if you plan to use it for ipod viewing - you won't have to encode twice.
  

  
  

  
  
  Wow, thanks for the info! I'll try to find one of those today. Thanks again!
• Reply 7 of 8

  rokcet scientist Posts: 962member

  November 13, 2009 4:13PM

  If Handbrake doesn't work for you, you may also do online conversions via youconvertit.com.
• Reply 8 of 8

  digital disasta Posts: 495member

  November 16, 2009 9:59AM

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  Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist
  
  
  If Handbrake doesn't work for you, you may also do online conversions via youconvertit.com.
  

  
  

  
  
  I found a version of iSquint. This app would be perfect if you could have different settings for each file in queue. It's a shame they stopped developing this app.