• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  PAL DVD

  Posted by John Woods on May 10, 2007 at 4:57 pm

  Please pardon if this is an old question.

  I am a US user. Will I be able to readin a PAL DVD on my domestic Apple and then convert it using Quicktime to a PAL movie? Then I would plan to use SHAKE to convert to NTSC movie for insertion into FCP program. Does anyone know if this works?

  Thanks,
  John

  John Woods
  WOODS Productions
  Clifton Park, NY, USA

  Rafael Amador replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  May 10, 2007 at 6:16 pm

  The only problem you can have reading a DVD in your Mac is if the DVD has being format with a different region than your Mac DVD driver.
  I would suggest you to use MPGStreamclip to convert the MPG2 in QT mov’s, Export at least as DVCPro50 (DV50) , as 8b Unc, better. I read in the forum of some people that use the same application to convert PAL to NTSC or the opposite with good results.
  Other suggestion is the Nattress Standard Conversor, a plugin for FC from which I read the best critics about. Very good quality and much faster than SHAKE or Compressor.
  Cheers,
  Rafael
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  John Woods

  May 10, 2007 at 8:37 pm

  Rafael, thanks. So once I get the video_TS file into the computer then the Nattress standards converter can take it from there?

  John

  John Woods
  WOODS Productions
  Clifton Park, NY, USA
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  Peter Dewit

  May 10, 2007 at 9:38 pm

  As they are the Video_Ts files are pretty useless. DVDs are encoded in such a way most software doesn’t know what to make of the files.

  You want to get a prgoram called MPEG Streamclip. Google it. It’s a great free utility that lets you rip the files off of DVDs in a useful fashion. It lets you demux them to MPEG2 files or convert the DVD files into any type of QT video. If you can I’d simply demux the files and try to convert the MPEG2’s as it would be one less generation
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  John Woods

  May 10, 2007 at 9:41 pm

  Thanks Peterd. I will look into MPEG streamclip.

  John Woods
  WOODS Productions
  Clifton Park, NY, USA
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  Rafael Amador

  May 11, 2007 at 11:24 am

  Hi John,
  If you have the Video_TS folder in your HD, open MPGStreamclip. Then go to FILES>OPEN and select the .VOBs from the Video_TS ( the application offers you to open one by one or all toguether). Then you can export all the film or the clips that you can select in the viewer. If you go to edit the film im FC and convert it to NTSC you should export as a QT movie (.mov). You can choose the codec that better suits you (I would do it in 8b Unc or DVCPro50 to keep the best from the MPG2). Then you can convert this PAL.mov with SHAKE or Compressor to get a NTSC.mov to edit in aFC in a NTSC sequence. Or you drop the the PAL.mov in a NTSC time-line and applie the Nattress Standar-conversor like anyother effect.
  Cheers,
  Rafael
  PS: I’ve used SHAKE and Compressor for very short clips but if now I wold need to convert a few minutes movie, I would get me the Nattress SC rightaway.
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  John Woods

  May 11, 2007 at 5:50 pm

  Thanks, Rafael:

  So, I just put the PAL DVD in my superdrive and then open the VIDEO_TS file with MPEG Streamconvert. I guess the only things that could go wrong then are problems with the region code on the DVD or some copy protection issue. A library in Wales, UK will send me the DVD for incorporation into my production so I presume (hope) that neither of these would be a problem.

  Best,
  John

  John Woods
  WOODS Productions
  Clifton Park, NY, USA
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  Rafael Amador

  May 12, 2007 at 5:50 am

  You better copy the Video_TS in your HD so MPGSTreamclip will have less problem to read the file(.VOBs). If the DVD is protected you will need MacTheRipper (look in Google) to copy the Video_TS. The region shouldn’t be a problem. With a different region you can not play the DVD, but you can copy the Video_TS folder.
  If you got any problem post in this thread and I will try to help you.
  Cheers,
  rafael

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