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Getting My Footage Off My DVD
my friend asked me to cut together a video of him playing lacrosse to send to colleges. someone filmed the games, put it on a dvd and gave it to him. he gave it to me to cut up and put music to it with stats and such… its just like whole games per DVD…one big long video.
anyway ive been driven to near suicide trying to get the video off the dvd and into final cut pro…ive accomplished it once or twice but it looked like someone played a poorly made youtube video on their computer screen and filmed it with a cell phone camera….needless to say, it looks terrible.
im a beginner, as you might of guessed. i’ve tried tons of conversion programs. what ive been doing is just copying the Video_TS folder with the VOB’s and some random other files inside it to my desktop, then putting the VOB’s into programs to convert them to something i can put into FCP. For example the one i was trying today is called 3ivxCrush. (Program)
it makes a quicktime movie in MPEG4 format i believe. it will load up into final cut, but the files play extremely choppy and look very bad, even with the highest quality settings. i rendered a piece of it and it seemed to play smoother but it still looked very poor. it could be choppy because im using a 5400rpm external hard drive but i dont know…even with its on my macbook pro’s hard drive its the same…so i dono if that is effecting it.
anyone know of a better way of doing this? i cant even see his number on his jersey to be able to tell which clips have him in it since its so grainy and choppy and blurry.
any help, thanks.
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Hi Shane,
Do a search on this forum. Your question has been asked and answered so many times and so completely that you’ll get much more information in a shorter amount of time by searching than you will by waiting for people to respond. -
Hi Shane,
Do a search on this forum. Your question has been asked and answered so many times and so completely that you’ll get much more information in a shorter amount of time by searching than you will by waiting for people to respond. -
i did a search and found a thread that pretty much solved my problem until i ran into another one…
each of the VOB files, when converted to DV in Compressor, go over the 4.1GB file limit or whatever the size limit is and so they dont finish converting and the tail end of it is cut off. anyone know how to get them down to size or to increase the file size limit on my external drive? should i do it onto my system drive? woudl that have a larger file size allowance?
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Hi Shane,
I guess you have your HDs formated as FAT32, therefor you have some 4GBs limit for the files.
you need your media drives formated as MacOX Extended (No Journaled).
for editing with FC avoid using USB HDs. At least you need FW400.
As pointed by Walter you can use MPGStreamclip.
Don’t export as DV because you are getting the kind of files used by iMovie. They need to be rendered in FC.
I recommend you export as QT DV50. The files will be much bigger than the VBO, but you will be able to get more quality from your DVDs.
Set the same parameters that you will use in your FC sequence (codec, size, pixels, field-order) and you won’t need to render the stuff when you’ll bring t to your sequence.
Cheers,
rafael -
Use MPEG Streamclip. It’s free. And it has a bunch of export options.
If that can’t access the files (like what happened to me recently with a crappy old DVD), try DVD Fab. It worked great (although I couldn’t do much with the awful VHS footage that was on it!!)
Bill
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Walter:
Thanks for reminding us of the FAQs. Great resource for questions like this.
R
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well i reformatted my external drive and it works great with the big files now.
hopefully i can get a firewire drive soon but i cant right now.
when you say QT DV50 do you mean “DVPro50 NTSC” ??? because thats all i see that is close to “QT DV50” in both Compressor and MPEG Streamclip…i assume its the same thing?
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[Shane McGee] “when you say QT DV50 do you mean “DVPro50 NTSC” ??? because thats all i see that is close to “QT DV50″ in both Compressor and MPEG Streamclip…i assume its the same thing?”
Right. In some places shows as DV50 in others as DVCPro50. Is the same.
rafael -
yeah well i re-did the conversions in DV50 and i didnt notice much difference in quality but its working just as well so im happy. I’ve realized the original dvd quality is pretty bad to begin with and the video on the computer is almost the same level of quality.
hopefully i can get some other, better filmed games of him….because this stuff is pretty crappy.
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