Been tasked with converted a wedding dvd but need a program for it!

James J · 5 Aug 2011 at 14:46

My parents have tasked me with converted a 4gb wedding DVD from a terminally ill friend so it can be backed up easily and sent around their family. I've done this sort of thing on a mac via handbrake, converting to MKV files but never done anything like it on windows so I need some help.

The wedding DVD was encoded using adobe premiere elements for reference. Any ideas on the best program to use? Converting to AVI, MOV or MPEG preferred.

SourChipmunk · 5 Aug 2011 at 14:54

If you were familiar with Handbrake on your Mac, it should work nicely for you in Windows also. Use the High Profile default setting for the conversion. That will give you an H.264 video (.mp4 format) which streams really nicely also.

http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

James J · 5 Aug 2011 at 15:00

Thanks I'll give it a go. Whats the difference between the highprofile and normal presets?

James J · 5 Aug 2011 at 15:26

SourChipmunk said:
If you were familiar with Handbrake on your Mac, it should work nicely for you in Windows also. Use the High Profile default setting for the conversion. That will give you an H.264 video (.mp4 format) which streams really nicely also.

http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Using that setting + some deinterlacing the end result is a lot better than the DVD original so I'm happy with that and I'm sure the family will be also.

Thanks for the recommendation.

rpstewart · 5 Aug 2011 at 16:10

James J said:
so it can be backed up easily and sent around their family.

Am I missing something fairly fundamental here? Why can't you just copy the DVD as is? Why does it have to be converted to something else?