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using MP4 in FCP
I have some old films of mine that I burned onto DVD a couple years back (not as QT files, but one u play in your avg DVD player). I got my old project off the DVD using Handbrake, now it’s in mp4 format. I want to cut off the BARS+TONE at the top and then eventually burn it onto a compilation DVD with my other works. However, I can’t seem to be able to use this type of file in FCP5… is there a compressor/conversion program I could use to change the mp4 into something FCP will understand? also, how bad will the quality be? I’d like to show this film at a screening.
THANKS A LOT!!
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4 Replies
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Hou will need to convert it to a FCP frenfly quicktime.
However the big iset broblem that you will be facing if the quality hit that the video will take before it gets back to DVD.
You are taking an already compresed vvideo (already compressed onto DVD before) converting it and then recompressing it.
In some ways it is similer to photocopying a photo copy the end image just isnt nearly as nice.
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any suggestions on a program to use to convert it?
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Streamclip.
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just to clarify, use MPEG Streamclip to pull the media from the DVD and convert it to the QT format you want to edit in, all in one step. don’t just use it to convert the mp4 you ripped with Handbrake (forget Handbrake, thats just a piracy tool for ripping protected media as far as I can see)
cheers
Andy
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