Update: I'm not fixing this doc any more. Instead find it in Google docs
Convert videos 2005 to Present Day and EclecticI'm converting all my videos so they'll render in Gfolio.
- Copy one year at a time down from Home Pictures to my desktop
- Once it's on my desktop, delete all mpgs that already have a converted mp4
- Now open Handbrake and make sure the queue is cleared.
- Now select FOLDER (BATCH SCAN). Find your folder and load it.
- Now it will say READY. (Or If you already had it open from the last job, it might say QUEUE FINISHED instead of READY.)
- Choose ADD ALL (it's inside ADD TO QUEUE). Now it will show you the number of jobs PENDING.
- If at this time Handbrake throws this message, say yes, again and again:
"there are jobs on the queue with the same destination path. Please choose a different path for this job... Do you wish to proceed trying to add the rest?"
This happens when Handbrake sees identical titles followed by numbers like this: (2) and (3). Because it is using the "metadata title" it thinks they're all dupes if they have a different number. It appears if you say yes to each of those, it properly distinguishes between each video title. In this case be sure to clear the queue when you're done so you can start with a clear queue for your next job - Now START QUEUE. It can take a long time.
- When it says QUEUE FINISHED you can now remove all the old videos (the avis, the mpgs, and so forth) and leave the mp4s.
- Once it has passed your tests, it can replace the folder in Home Pictures.
- Hold off for a while on doing any backups to Google Drive and Amazon Photos until I'm very confident
Later, see if any images won't render
I've found I might have to convert some images later too, using a different converter. So after I'm done with all video conversions, I can see if any of my images won't render in Gfolio. If that is a problem, then use XnConvert to convert those images.
Addendum
How I configured my Handbrake Settings
- Go into Advanced and under File Handling, check the box for Recursively scan directories when using the folder scan mode.
- Also in Advanced under File Handling, make sure my usual images are being excluded. Be sure to add any to that list that aren't there so they're all excluded: tif, jpg,jpeg,png,gif,bmp,webp,heic,heif,avif,dng,cr2,cr3,nef,arw,orf,raf,sr2,tga,pcx,ppm, mp4. Note that we exclude mp4 so we don't end up with duplicate mp4s
- In Output Files, in Default Path, use {source_path}
- Initially I tried moving the resulting year folder to a different place in Google drive and testing it with Gfolio but I'm satisfied with that.
- Also it looks like I don't need to open Handbrake with admin.
- Go into Advanced and under File Handling, check the box for Recursively scan directories when using the folder scan mode.
- Also in Advanced under File Handling, make sure my usual images are being excluded. Be sure to add any to that list that aren't there so they're all excluded: tif, jpg,jpeg,png,gif,bmp,webp,heic,heif,avif,dng,cr2,cr3,nef,arw,orf,raf,sr2,tga,pcx,ppm, mp4. Note that we exclude mp4 so we don't end up with duplicate mp4s
- In Output Files, in Default Path, use {source_path}
- Initially I tried moving the resulting year folder to a different place in Google drive and testing it with Gfolio but I'm satisfied with that.
- Also it looks like I don't need to open Handbrake with admin.
Screenshots of Handbrake Settings
Here's two screenshots (see below) of the advanced settings; however, the setting for excluded filetypes is scrollable, so you won't see them all here.
