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From DVD-Video to FCP
I’m trying to get uncopyrighted video from DVD to Final Cut. I’ve found some ways to do it, but they seem a little sloppy and I want to make sure I convert things the best way.
I’ve used “MPEG Streamclip” with some success – but the audio always needs rendering in FCP. I was exporting as DV and resampling audio to 48k. It created files with “.dv” extensions – I’m not familiar with that. Should I export as Quicktime files?
I’ve also tried dragging the VOB files onto the computer, then encoding with Compressor. I can’t get the audio to show up at all this way.
Help?
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4 Replies
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Use Streamclip but have it convert to Quicktime rather than DV. You can choose any codec on your system and choose 48khz audio.
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Couple of suggestion to clearify.
Try DV50 (DVCPro50) as the codec for video, only 2x with size of DV but you get a lot for that, or the new ProRes if you have FCP6. and it will recompress a lot better. Make sure you are also making the audio aif format and not .dv.
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Thanks for clarifying that. Everything works well now.
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I don’t think the original quality is worth using a better codec than DV, but thanks for your help.
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