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  Converting DVD to WMA

  Posted by Mark Jackson on August 26, 2007 at 7:24 pm

  Can someone please recommend some software that will convert a DVD to WMA, AVI, MP4, etc.?

  Also, what is the best video format for adding video clips to a web site?

  One of my clients wants to add video to their site. They are trying to capture clips from footage that they recorded on DVD. I’m new to the DVD convertion process and I need help on this project.

  Thanks in advance.

  Mark D Jackson

  Ryan Holmes replied 18 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ryan Holmes

  August 27, 2007 at 12:19 pm

  Mark,
  There’s a couple of routes you can go:
  1) Purchase an ADVC converter and ingest your DVD into FCP. This takes the signal from your DVD player and converts into Firewire so you can ingest into FCP.

  You can see them here:
  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/349146-REG/Grass_Valley_602029_ADVC_110_Bidirectional_Media_Converter.html

  2) Purchase/download a DVD ripping software (i.e. DVDxDV, Handbrake, etc.). This allows you to extract the mpeg-2 and convert it into a format you can use inside of FCP (or any transcoding software).

  As far as preferred internet video delivery format, I recommend Flash. It is universal as far as web browser and computer platform. Windows Media rarely works reliably on anything outside of Internet Explorer on a Windows machine (and that can even be sketchy sometimes). For 1800 videos that we offer online Flash is our choice. Quicktime is good, but not necessarily as universal as Flash. For the time being, I recommend Flash.

  To convert to Flash you can use Compressor (after buying the appropriate plugin) or you can purchase a dedicated software solution like Episode by Telestream or Sorenson Squeeze to handle the transcoding.

  Ryan

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