

The Animorphic properties are retained and I'm getting a full 480 pixels of vertical resolution in M4V files that play fine with VLC on the PC and read directly into iTunes and sync to the iPad 2 without problems. The De-Interlacing does soften the video somewhat, but other than that, the videos come out great. I have to manually enable De-Interlacing (set to Slower) but other than that I am using the default settings provided by the iPad preset. I am using it to convert DVD rips of TV shows and movies that I own and create versions that will play on our 64 gig 3G iPad 2 and it is working very well overall. I am running 0.9.5 on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Service Pack 1 with 12 gig of RAM and a GTX 460 1gig and 266.58 drivers and am having good luck so far with the application. Also you should definitely try MakeMKV for ripping blurays to the drive. People on the internet can and do argue all day about the settings I've just given, but it should be a good starting place since all the options can be bewildering for novices. If it's DTS (which can be lossless or compressed) or another less efficient audio codec I like to compress with Nero AAC in Foobar2000 after choosing passthru and letting Handbrake encode the video (VBR q-5 for stereo and q-4 for multichannel should be transparent to the original audio for most people) and remux the audio afterwards with MKVMerge, because the AAC options in Handbrake for Windows aren't very good quality but they don't allow Nero's AAC encoder because of licensing issues. For audio use passthru if it's an AC3 file, otherwise you're compressing a compressed file. On the picture tab, Anamorphic=Loose, Modulus=16, Cropping=automatic. Use high profile, Film preset (unless it's animation, use the animation setting), I use the 'slower' setting for speed.įilters tab, change Detelecine and Decomb to default. I Use constant quality at RF 16 for HD rips (may be overkill, lower is better, many people recommend 22 or 20 for HD.


Use x264 as video codec, with the mkv file extension (I think mkv is best because you can add chapters etc as long as it's compatible for you). For people new to the program and have tried to find the right settings, here's what I do for converting a DVD (or Bluray when I'm converting down to 720p - what you'll actually do is change the width to 1280) to a compressed file I want to play or stream from Windows:
