Hey guys, hope all of you are more helpful here. I've tried a few forums and all I let are sarcastic crude remarks. I'm a writer/producer of a film that will be available soon. I'm trying to get the film on iMovie to use for commentary for my cast. The problem is it is on a master dvd and iMovie only takes MPEG-4. With that in mind I've tried using the MPEG slipstream program, which you have to pay for. Another popular program I've found is Handbrake, but I can't seem to keep the quality good without coming out in MPEG4 looking pixelated. I can't figure out if I'm not doing the constant quality, or the bitrate number right, or the thousand other options you can pick. Didn't know if someone was had any knowledge with this program, or could recommend another free Mac program off their site that does this. All I get from Mac tech support is to goggle it or try this two programs. I've been googling since 8am yesterday morning and went through forums. The honest truth is I know nothing about anything computer technical. I wrote and produced the film. I didn't edit it and I don't deal with computers often unless I'm using them to write. This Mac is new, so I'm relearning all over again. Please help. Thanks in advance. Best, Craig intrusionmovie@yahoo.com
Max the settings Tell Handbrake how much space you want to to use by selecting the size of video option Another issue imovie 08 doesn't support certain Mpeg 4 files so you might have to look for a copy of imovie hd on ilife 06
Get Quicktime Pro, it will allow you to save your movie as MPEG-4 Video. It cost only $29 and you can download it at apple.com. Cheers.
