• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Help!

  Posted by Jim Branstetter on April 30, 2006 at 11:02 am

  Hi All,

  I have a client that has requested some edits. The problem is they are Mpeg 2 encoded for DVD, and I don’t want to re-encode them and further downgrade the quality.

  Can I make the edits in FCP then export as a FCP reference file, or a FCP QT to import into DVDSP.

  Any ideas on this?

  Thanks, Jim

  Chris Borjis replied 20 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  April 30, 2006 at 1:52 pm

  You will have to re-encode… you’ll need to extract the files to boot with a demuxer, edit, then re-encode, because the MPEG for the resulting DVD has to be a single stream, right?
  And it won’t be the same as the original because you’re going to be making changes so…

  Jerry
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  Chris Borjis

  April 30, 2006 at 4:07 pm

  recompressing them one time with at least 6mbs average shouldn’t be too bad.
  But beyond that wouldn’t be recommended.
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  John Fishback

  April 30, 2006 at 10:52 pm

  Checkout Streamclip. https://www.squared5.com/ It’s amazing. You can convert from muxed files on a DVD to QT (I used 8-bit uncompressed), edit in fcp, and re-encode with excellent results. I just had to do this where a client only had their DVD as a master and the results were great.

  John

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  Chris Borjis

  May 1, 2006 at 3:58 pm

  That program is amazing, powerful and very stable.

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