Handbrake DVD ripping software compitability?

JimVertigo wrote on 6/13/2011, 10:14 AM
Hi,

Does anyone here know anything about Handbrake software and how it interacts with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack? I've been able to successfully "rip" or grab (don't know what the proper technical term is...sorry) some footage from a DVD of a couple of PBS affiliate TV shows I"ve worked on. I suppose the discs are encrypted but, I'm not sure. I also tried to rip from a Napoleon Dynamite dvd and it didn't work so well. So the PBS dvds may be encoded differently or not encoded at all; I don't know? The problem with the PBS footage that I have been able to rip is that it plays perfectly when it automatically opens up and plays in my Microsoft Zune Mp3 player software but, when I add the footage to a timeline in VMS it pixelates and is jumpy; not badly pixelating but, enough to where I don't want to add it to my demo reel that I'm putting together. Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix the issue? Thanks for any help anyone can render.

Sincerely,
Ralph

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musicvid10 wrote on 6/13/2011, 1:55 PM
Your question would be better put on the Handbrake forum.
Handbrake for Windows does not decrypt commercial DVDs.
Read the FAQs on their website.

Handbrake-encoded material will open and preview in Vegas if you dumb it down a bit to Main Profile.

That means no weight-p, no pyramid-b.

That being said, I have no earthly idea why you would want to convert MPEG-2 to MP4 and then import it into Vegas. A logical workflow would be to rip and join the VOBs to a smart-rendered MPEG-2, using any number of utilities (DVDShrink, VideoRedo, Womble, etc. etc.), and bring that .mpg into Vegas, thus avoiding any recompression or timeline issues.
JimVertigo wrote on 6/13/2011, 5:45 PM
MusicVid,

Thanks for sharing! What you said is all Greek to me pretty much but, I'll print out your reply and try to decipher it. lol Or, is it a possibility that you could "dumb down" your answer for a person who is not very knowledgeable on software? Thanks.

Ralph
musicvid10 wrote on 6/13/2011, 6:15 PM
DVD is MPEG-2 video. There is no reason to convert it to anything else to import into Vegas. That hurts the quality to do so.
Handbrake converts DVD video to MP4, for Youtube, iPhones, PC players, etc., etc., so it is not an ideal path to bring your DVD video into Vegas or another nonlinear editing program.

If you want to bring your DVD video in Vegas, use one of the utilities mentioned to join the VOB files from your DVD into one .mpg file, which does not sacrifice any quality, and bring that single .mpg file into Vegas.

If the DVDs are commercially encrypted, you will need to address that issue on your own. Much help on the internet for you.

Hope that helps, and best of luck.