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Handbrake>FCP – Format questions & concerns
Hey friends!
I need to RIP a bunch of DVD’s to make an edit out of and I did an initial run through some of the dvd’s in Handbrake with 2 sets of settings because i was not sure what FCP would like and have seen it take more than one kind of handbrake file.
Handbrake settings:
MPEG 4 – I made a custom setting where i just bump the quality to 100%
AVI – same thing just bumped quality all the way up.
The majority of the MPEG files are not accepted by FCP (only 1 works for some reason) but all of the AVI’s work fine.
The resulting files are all .avi’s @ 23.98 / Square pixel aspect ratio / compressor tab in FCP reads it as: DivX 6.0. I am running the latest version of fcp on an intel mac running tiger’s latest version and I alo have PEIAN plugin for FCP Installed.
I have a majority that are 16:9 although some are 4×3.
16:9
851×472 = 2
720×400 = 18 separate file / chapters
849×362 = 2
704×400 = 2
716×364 = 1
640×368 = 1
624×352 = 1
4:3
676×480 = 1
640×480 = 8
680×513 = 1My question for you folks is what sequence format would make the most sense to work in and what important details must I be aware of for this type of project?? I was thinking a DV sequence with Square aspect ratio and 23.98 fps timebase should be ok but what are your thoughts?
I know the look that I want is important so masking to add ltrbx to the 4×3 material is an option or using compressor to remove ltrbx is also an option…
any help would be great!
thank you
Lisa
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19 Replies
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Handbrake and FCP do not play well together. You are much better off using Mpeg Streamclip.
Have a wonderful day.
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Hi
Use a proper fully featured QuickTime utility – MPEG Streamclip, rather than playing with a consumer iPod movie tool like Handbrake. -
I do have mpeg streamclip but can you give some details about how to use it for ripping dvd’s specifically for FCP??
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Damn well I have already done SO many chapters of like 15 films all in handbrake so i think i dont have time to do this process again right but if you guys can provide advice on what I DO have as well as what settings to use in Streamclip for the future that is what would be most helpful…
thank you
Lisa
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Paul, you may want to read Chris Poisonn’s informative post, so you might learn how not to answer a question like a total Dickin.
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Wow haha damn boys ok – so not sure if thats a diss to me or not i really do appreciate all of you taking time to err help me out…
just real quickly i did a test in streamclip just now with a dvd in tried open files and selected .vob files but it does not work and gives error messages suck as “file open error – cant fin video or audio”
I need to rip the video and audio together as one file with decent quality to work with in fcp…
thanks
Lisa -
Lisa, if you do not wish to re-rip, then you can run them through compressor using ProRES 422 as the output format, and you’ll be able to use those clips naitively in FCP. Although, as pointed out earlier, this is not the “best way” to do it.
In the past, I got okay results doing exactly that, ripping with handbrake (h.264 100% quality > compressor > FCP) but Streamclip will do it in one pass.. I’m not sure if it will work with copy-protected material, as I’ve never tried…
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[Lisa Rolley] “I need to rip the video and audio together as one file with decent quality to work with in fcp… “
MPEG Streamclip like the others have said.
Export as a Quicktime movie of your choice and then bring that into FCP.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Hey Walter thanks for replying to my post
Firstly i have already done the ripping of dvd’s with handbrake and no longer have the dvd’s to wor with – I just need to do this project in the next day so I am asking for advice based on what i have to work with – i understand now what i should have done but really just was hoping you guys could address the frame sizes and formats and advise me on what my sequence should be.
Second, in terms of future use of MPEG Streamclip I guess i am just having trouble getting access to the files once i go to open file and look at the DVD – when i try to select a VOB file it just gives me that error message – what am i doing wrong??
thanks
Lisa
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[Lisa Rolley] “Second, in terms of future use of MPEG Streamclip I guess i am just having trouble getting access to the files once i go to open file and look at the DVD – when i try to select a VOB file it just gives me that error message – what am i doing wrong?? “
I just always select the first video file, something like VO_1 and let MPEG Streamclip open it from there.
If you have a copyright disc with copy protection on it, then this won’t work, nor should it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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