Nice tut i thought i'd add, you'll need to down fairuse first though



Fairuse will convert to Xvid from either disc or .iso. If you are doing it from disc, it will rip to your HDD so there is no need to do this first.

Assuming this is from a disc, first put it in your drive and open Fairuse.

At the first screen in the project title box put the name of the movie. In the second box choose the destination on your HDD that you want Fairuse to output to (I usually create a folder and name it the title of the movie), then click next.

You will now be prompted to choose the drive the disc is in, do this and click next.

The next screen will display the contents of the disc, and it should be obvious from the runtimes what the main movie is. It will also display info on Aspect Ratio & languages. Highlight this and click next. This is when Fairuse will rip that part of the disc to a temp location on your pc.

When it has finished ripping you will get a page where the movie is displayed and can be scrolled through. This is where some of the tweaking is done, and the disc can now be removed.

Under the video preview you will see a "Include Subpictures" check box, untick this. Around the video display you will see crop lines. These can be adjusted using the Top/Bottom/Left/Right buttons on the left of the screen. Adjust these so that they fit around the movie in preview. You can also cut the end credits if you wish, by moving the slider along and noting the frame number in the box below. Enter this number in the "Set Credits End" box top left of the screen. Careful here tho as some movies run bloopers thru the credits or have something connected with the movie at the end of them. Click next.

The next page will ask you for what mode, theres 3 of them but just click Auto-Detect and go with what it says, then click next.

The next page is where you set the output size, audio type, and codec (in this case Xvid, which is normally checked by default). This the bit where you have to decide how much quality to go for. If you choose a 1 disc 700 MB file, I would recommend you choose MP3 from the audio drop down option. If you want to keep the 5.1 Audio in, you must choose AC3 and choose a 2 disc (part) output, which you should set to 1398 MB to make full use of the disc space. Bear in mind that AC3 5.1 audio will take up about 350 MB of the file, so choosing this option on a 1 disc file doesnt leave a lot of room for the video.

One last thing regarding settings is too move the quality slider from the default centre towards the maximum setting but not all the way, about 75% is ok, and ensure "two pass" is checked, click next to begin the process. As with all video conversions, this will be time consuming and resource hungry so best to leave it running overnight.

Finally before you make your torrent, go to the folder that the avi has been created in & delete all the files Fairuse leaves behind in the converting process. Ive seen a few torrents where ppl havnt done this & ended up with a 4 gig torrent for a 700 MB avi..

Happy converting..