Video From my Camera into Handbrake

Hello all,
I have a Sony Handycam DVD camera and I have a project for my AM Wired class due on wed. I took my brothers camera as I felt it would be eaiser then carrying one of the DV Camera's home from school. So I shot the video is 16:9 format and I got home and I put the DVD into my powermac quad and tried to use handbrake to rip the DVD. It works but it works in such a way where it is strecthing (more like squeezing) the video to fit in a 4:3 format, where I rather it just look like it would as if I played a 16:9 in a 4:3 tv (with black bars on the top) Now I would not care that it did this but the quality is HORRIBLE when it does it this way. So my question is how can I get it into final cut pro with out this extreme loss of quality.

Garbage in garbage out. FCP isnt going to help you make the quality better. Just use the motion controls to unsqueeze it tho.
I though DVD camcorders saved the movie as a file on disk. Cant you just take the file right of the DVD?

You need to go into 'picture settings' in handbrake and select the right aspect ratio for your film.

Rerip it and it should leave the film as it is.

Aptmunich said:

You need to go into 'picture settings' in handbrake and select the right aspect ratio for your film.

Rerip it and it should leave the film as it is.

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Thank you I will try that and report back. I tried looking for something like that in handbrake but maybe I missed it. I will head over to my powermac now to try to check that out.

Report Back: So I checked handbrake I do no thave that option. So I am went into "crop and scale" and chose to de-interlace the video. in the preview it looked much better quality, and I am hoping it ends up looking fine, If not then I will have to see if the cause to not having "picture settings" could be because I do not have the latest version of handbrake (although I thought I did) Will report back again in a few hours. When I get back online.

Ok, I have realized I did not have the most recent version of Handbrake. All things are going well now and I should have this edited and ready to go by the end of tonight so I don't have to worry about this for wed. Thank you for your help.

No problem, glad to help our Mac forums Moth