Apple TV / iTunes Question

[senseibiz]

Hello everyone..
I have alot of movies that I purchased on CD.
I use handbrake to rip them so I can have them on my itunes and transfer them to my apple TV.
here is my question.
when I rip them I use the Apple TV settings. after it's done, I use itunes to convert the same movie to iphone version so I can watch them on my iphone..

Now I have two versions of the same movie on my itunes. is this the way its done? is there another setting on handbrake that I can rip to use for both apple tv and iphone.

any ideas ?
Thanks,
Sensei

 

[Shuttleworth]

The Apple Universal preset in Handbrake should do this for you, one file that will work on TV and iPhone, but it's a bigger file than one that has been converted using Handbrakes iPhone & iPod preset, about twice the size IIRC, so you won't get as many films on your iPhone.

I save a seperate iPhone/iPod version and change it from a 'Movie' to a 'TV Show', in a TV series I've called "iPod Touch Movies" so it doesn't show up as a load of duplicates in the movies section of iTunes or TV.

EDIT: Another option would be to use Handbrake to convert first using the TV preset, then add to the queue to convert using the iPhone & iPod Touch preset. This'll make nboth versions for you without further intervention, just make sure the second conversion has a different file name.

 

[nuhusky001]

How does itunes label its movies...

I have a follow up question about that... how does itunes label its HD purchases... because they have two files; one in SD and one in HD; and they are listed once in itunes. And the apple TV plays the HD version, and the iphone/touch plays the SD version. What needs to be done for this to happen manually? This means a lot more space, but it means the best of both worlds when playing back the movies on any device.

 

[Shuttleworth]

Possibly SD/HD is one of the metadata options in MetaX ? I don't remember seeing it though (haven't looked TBH, all my stuff is SD), but some of mine have come up saying HD after I've imported the details into MetaX from TagChimp.

 

[senseibiz]

The Apple Universal preset in Handbrake should do this for you, one file that will work on TV and iPhone, but it's a bigger file than one that has been converted using Handbrakes iPhone & iPod preset, about twice the size IIRC, so you won't get as many films on your iPhone.

I save a seperate iPhone/iPod version and change it from a 'Movie' to a 'TV Show', in a TV series I've called "iPod Touch Movies" so it doesn't show up as a load of duplicates in the movies section of iTunes or TV.

EDIT: Another option would be to use Handbrake to convert first using the TV preset, then add to the queue to convert using the iPhone & iPod Touch preset. This'll make nboth versions for you without further intervention, just make sure the second conversion has a different file name.

These are great ideas, thanks. it was a pain to have two movies in itunes. I will use your second option and have my iphone versions moved to tv shows.
thanks again...
Sensei