pete, that sounds great… itunes still has a few suprises up its sleeve! my "high-quality" rip is at 2000 bitrate, two-pass and h-264. i have 2 versions of "the good german" ripped in handbrake on my desktop, one with the above settings (1.54gb) and one with the iphone presents (816mb). i'll "convert for iphone" the hi-res one in itunes and compare. many thanks, alexandre On Aug 2, 2008, at 22:26 , Pete Zimowski wrote: >> i make copies of dvds that i own so that i can watch them on the >> road on my macbook pro, without taking the dvds themselves, >> obviously. i use handbrake to do this, with my custom settings so >> as to have a relatively high quality copy (1.5gb for an average >> movie, in mp4 format) >> >> now that i have an iphone, i'd also like to have "lighter" versions >> of these movies. how can i go about this without re-ripping at a >> lower bitrate (which is what i'm doing now)? > > I'm doing something similar for archiving and viewing on Apple TV - > ripping with Handbrake (2500 bit rate, two-pass, h-264) and putting > them into iTunes to place onto Apple TV . When I want to put the > ripped movies on my iPhone or iPod, I select the movie in iTunes, > then choose "Convert Selection for iPod/iPhone" from the "Advanced" > menu. > > It does take several minutes to do the conversion (definitely less > than doing a second convert with Handbrake), and I do have the same > movie (albeit in different resolutions) stored twice, but it does > the trick. > > I'm interested if there's any other way to do it myself. > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal