I have a DVD of me that I need to import into imovie so I can put it on my wordpress blog. I tried using handbrake and mack the ripper, and was unable to import into imovie.
Personal DVDs are rarely encrypted except even when produced professionally so neither HandBrake or MTR are required except as a convenience. The iPod and TV presets will produce an iMovie '08/'09 compatible file if you remember to turn off all extraneous tracks -- chapters, soft subtitles, and/or AC3 audio "pass through." My preference would be MPEG Streamclip (free) together with the QT MPEG-2 Playback Component ($20) since it allows the user to select any of the iMovie '08/'09 edit compatible compression formats -- DV, AIC, Motion-JPEG, Photo-JPEG, and/or supported profiles of MPeG-4 or H.264 along with their common audio compression formats.
A secondary approach is to image your file in such a manner that iMovie '08 thinks the content is on a camcorder and will convert the content automatically as part of the import. Unfortunately, this work flow may or may not work for any given user. In my case, it does not work using an DMG image but works fine using an ISO image.
Can someone tell me how to transfer my video from my DVD to imovie and how to get this onto my wordpress blog?
I have no idea what a "wordpress" blog is, so no help here.
Does it need to be in quicktime or mpeg 4?
If you are still asking about getting files in to iMovie '08 here, then be advised that generally speaking any content in an MOV file container may be referred to as a "quicktime" file. iMovie looks at the compression format in file container and not the extension of the file when deciding whether or not the file is edit compatible. The compression formats listed above would be the most common ones you could use unless you also have FCP installed on your system.
