Idvd movice to itunes

I am a brand new user, so this may seem like an easy topic. I have started input my old 8mm tapes into imovie and then burn them to DVD to share with the family. I have saved all my movies as disk images and have had zero problems burning to disc or viewing from my mac. After doing this I thought it would be best to save all movies into itunes, so if I do buy appleTV, my work would already be done. So I convereted the disk images back to mpeg4 using handbrake. (read that from other another thread.) However the quality is different from the disk image and DVD burn. It's like you can see the lines. My question is, what is the best way to put a idvd project into mpeg4 for itunes? I think I went about it a bit backwards since I thought about it after I saved the projects as a disk image. Also is there a way to get a disk image back into idvd project format?
Thanks!!

Ben - use MEPG Streamclip.
You have to pay for the Apple MPEG-2 component to play back MPEG-2 (the VOB files on your DVD).
You can open the first VOB from a disk image and Streamclip will offer to open them all. It will point out timecode errors, and offer to fix them. agree to this.
Using the export to MPEG-4 menu item press the iPod button and select size - for TV you will want 640X480. In the screen with all the options (same screen after you pick the size) just add the deinterlace box (this gets rid of all the lines).
This will make a fully compliant for iPod/iTunes version (that looks good on a TV as well) of your source in very good quality with no lines. If you have a bunch you can use the batch list and do a lot at a time, using the same steps.
Apart from paying for the MPEG-2 component it is free to use. A great transcoder if starting at MPEG-2/DVD/VOB files.

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