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Uncompressing VC1 on a Mac
Hi there,
Is it possible to uncompress vc-1 coded movies for further editing
on a Mac?Best regards,
Robert Grove. -
19 Replies
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Depends where it came from. Are you dealing with AVI or WMV files from a PC? Or files directly from a camera. In general the flip4mac tools work for AVI/WMV files:
https://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx
Perian or MPEG Streamclip for everything else:
Noah
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I’m dealing with vc-1 files demuxed from Blu-ray disc. All my attemps on uncompressing it to mov end up as a failure.
I have tried even Episode Encoder but no go… -
Well most likely what you are trying to do is illegal, you cannot rip copyrighted material and edit it.
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Every time you illegally rip a Blu-ray, god kills a kitten… so live with that.
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Just to be honest… I’m not ripping Blu-ray for my own purposes but it is material recieved from my client due to cost of HDBeta tapes. I know it is sad, but it’s the same procedure with DVD here in Poland.
We are an authoring house doing a job for license owner, not old scurvy pirates 😉Best regards.
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Nothing on the Mac but there are tons of PC tools which can do this. Never heard of VC-1 on a Blu Ray.
This questions is bested suited for the geeks over at https://www.videohelp.com
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VC-1 is the Microsoft version of a codec that you can use on BluRay, don’t think many people use it. From what I’ve read, at twice the bitrate is it not as good as H264.
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That’s why I gave myself an out. 🙂
But if we all charged clients for sending us things that saved them money but cost us a ton of time we would all get what we needed on the right medium. In the end we are the ones that pay for stuff like this.
There is no reason they need to be muxing this into a BluRay video disc, they can just encode it and send it as a file.
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Funny thing is *everyone* on this board who wants to know about ripping says it’s for footage a client- I’m not convinced but that’s just me.
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The funny thing is that only people that don’t seem to know how to rip DVDs are on this forum.
I do get a kick out of your response to these type of things,
But I actually have to rip from DVDs a lot more than I want to so I understand. I worked for a replicator/duplicator for a while and salesman where always telling client to just master to DVD, it’s digital after all.
I trust that Robert is being honest but like I said there was no reason to mux the original file.
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