Please help with family video compression settings

[wegga77]

Hello, I'm working in Handbreak, which I use often to compress video, but I can't for the life of me figure out why my home movies come out incorrectly. The video files are from a handheld digital camera I bought at Best Buy about six years ago. And help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Here's what the image looks like: http://www.weggaproductions.com/images/video-conversion.jpg

[ackboo]

Get mediainfo, use it on your source video, find the text and copy paste it here.
Do the same for the handbrake version.
Probably some aspect ratio setting

[wegga77]

Thank you for the reply. Here are the video settings. http://www.weggaproductions.com/images/video-conversion2.jpg

I did tweak some settings based on your suggestion and am trying to re-compress now. I'll update on here how it turns out.

[wegga77]

I got it to work. I changed the anamorphic setting from loose to none and specifically defined by video dimensions. Thanks for helping me.

[ackboo]

no problem