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From DVD to FCP to DVD
I just made a Spec trailer from a DVD for my editing reel. I ripped the DVD with Mac The Ripper and converted the VOB files into quicktime movies with MPEG Streamclip. The codec I used was the Apple DV/DVCPRO. But I wasn’t completely happy with the 16:9 DVD I burned. It just didn’t look right. It only does when I burn it as a 16:9 matted inside a 4:3.
I read in one of the threads that I should use at least DVCPRO 50 as the codec. Is there a better codec still? Especially if I’m intending to burn the footage back into DVD.
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4 Replies
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Uncompressed is always your best bet but you will loose some quality no matter what
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I personally use DVCPro50 or Pro Res for this process, but it never hurts to do your own testing. The only for sure thing is I never use DV25.
FWIW – I also use Cinematize because it is a one step process, rip to whatever QT codec I want. It can also demux to m2v/ac3 if you just want to reuse the assets on a new DVD project so there is no quality loss.
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I think that, at least in theory, the perfect would be 8b Unc.
You won’t get any better with a 10b codec because you are just transcoding 8b Y’CrCb values.
And you avoid the DV50 compression.
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[Gabriel Figueroa] “I just made a Spec trailer from a DVD for my editing reel. I ripped the DVD with Mac The Ripper and converted the VOB files into quicktime movies with MPEG Streamclip.”
MPEG Streamclip does this in one process.
Your video quality is going to be greatly degraded no matter what you do because you’re taking that MPEG stream and turning it back into a Quicktime file so that adds even more compression. I would just use MPEG Streamclip to turn it into an Uncompressed Quicktime file. That’s the best quality you’re going to get.
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