• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVD to PC to FCP workflow

  Posted by Dan Schanler on July 21, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  hey guys,

  I’m having a tough time figuring out the best way to do this; maybe you could give me some suggestions?

  Idea in a nutshell: we’d like to use videos submitted by users and re-edit them into a longer video (with their permission). Most of these users will have footage on DVDs (unencrypted), as they are wedding videos, and most of these will be PC users.

  Money question is: How do I get from DVDs on their PCs to a format that I can edit on FCP with some semblance of original quality?

  Thanks.

  Dan

  Dan Schanler replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 21, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  They send you the DVDs…then you use MPEG STREAMCLIP to convert into an editable format, like DV.

  Shane

  

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  Dan Schanler

  July 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm

  Thanks Shane.

  yeah, that was going to be the alternative option, but now it’s probably going to have to be the main way.

  The more I find out about encoding from DVD on PC, editing it, etc… the less I think a user would do it over just sending the DVD.

  Dan NYC
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  Dan Schanler

  July 21, 2008 at 6:33 pm

  as a follow up:

  So going from DVD to PC to FCP is not going to happen.

  What if the footage was not on DVD – they have captured it already or recorded it on a camera in, say, AVI format…

  From what I’ve tried FCP seems to handle AVI and some WMV files. Are these usable to edit with or do I need to encode them to MOV?

  (generally speaking, would the media file that the average PC user upload be worthwhile for editing use?)

  Really appreciate the advice.

  Dan NYC

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