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If it's not already selected, look for the tab "Picture," and select it. A few things to note:

- I'm about to encode an HD television show, Fringe, a single mpeg2 file with commercials pre-cut using other software.

- The native HD resolution of this video file, as shown by Handbrake on the "Source" line is 1280 x 720. That's too big for Nook, so we'll need to scale that down (Nooks max resolution is 854x480). You'll probably need to select "none" on the Anamorphic pull-down, and then be sure "keep aspect ratio" is checked, and then manually set the Width to 854. When you leave the Width text box and it looses focus, Handbrake should automatically set the Height. Note: if the height at this point is 480 or less, you're set, but if it's more than 480, you'll need to set the Height text box to 480 (Handbrake should then reduce the Width text box accordingly to hold aspect ratio). No matter how you look at it, the Width should never exceed 854, and the Height should never exceed 480. If your source video is a DVD file, or something with a lower resolution than 854x480, then I believe it will not allow you to use a larger resolution than the source, so your final numbers might be something like 720x400.

- In the cropping section, I usually set Handbrake to Automatically crop. Once you get to know Handbrake a little better, or if you have artifacts on the edges of the encoded video, you can start to fool with the manual cropping.

- IMPORTANT - you also need to look at the "Destination" path of where it's going to store the file, and what it's going to call it. I believe that it will default to putting the video in the same location as the source file, however, if you've run Handbrake previously, it may put it in the previous directory. Regardless, you can click on the "Browse" button and put the destination file wherever you wish, and change the filename here at the same time if you want to.