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--How
to use Handbrake to backup a DVD movie to an MPEG 4 movie
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This guide assumes that you have a
Mac capable of playing back DVDs and are running OS X. It also
assumes you have already installed Handbrake per the instructions.
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Open Handbrake. You will now see the main window offering
you the choice of using a DVD or a DVD folder.
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Now, insert your DVD into your Mac and play it briefly in
Apple's DVD Player to authorize the disc. (Sometimes this
helps the disc to copy without errors.) The disc will then
show up in the Handbrake main menu under "Detected Volume".
If you are using a DVD folder instead, select "DVD Folder"
and then click the browse button to locate the appropriate
folder.
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Click "Open" and Handbrake will analyze
the DVD or DVD Folder. |
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When done, you will then be presented with a new
window offering you choices on how you want the movie and it's
audio compressed and where to send the final output movie. From
here, you will need to configure the type of movie you want
Handbrake to produce. If you wish to remove the letterboxing
black bars or want to resize your movie, click the "Crop
& Scale" button now. |
If you click "Autocrop", it will automatically crop
around any letterboxing black bars for you, giving you a clean
movie. Otherwise, you can set the width, how much cropping etc
here. When done, click "Close".
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Now we are ready to start processing
the movie. Click the "Rip" button you saw in step
4 and Handbrake will now start working on your movie. This will
take a while depending on the speed of your computer and how
big the movie you are processing is. |
When it finishes, you will now have a MP4 movie ready for backing
up, or watching on your computer. |
