• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Importing video into FCP

  Posted by John Harper on April 15, 2009 at 11:10 pm

  A friend shot some footage on a trip thru the Grand Canyon & I’m trying to import it into FCP to edit.

  The camera created ‘chapters’ during the output to DVD (on Verbatim DigitalMovieDVD+R discs) and I cannot seem to bring the video files into FCP. Is there a conversion or special technique I need to employ to bring these videos into FCP?

  The files appear as VIDEO_TS.BUP & VIDEO_TS.IFO & VIDEO_TS.VOB

  then follow chapter numbers, with similar endings: VTS_01_0.BUP & VTS_01_0.IFO & VTS_01_1.VOB

  I have never seen these type of files before (it is not my camera) so I’m confused how to import into FCP.

  Please help & advise.

  David Bogie replied 17 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Sacci

  April 15, 2009 at 11:24 pm

  You need to “Rip” the files off the DVD. You can look at Mpeg StreamClip to do that, it is a free app you can download.

  Convert to a QT format such as DVCPro50 or ProRes for the best quality.
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  David Bogie

  April 16, 2009 at 12:54 am

  You may not be able to use them at all but try it. It’s a weird format. All recordable DVDs are weird formats.
  Easiest thing to do is get the camera they were shot with and hook it up to your DV camera and make a dub. Capture form the dub.

  bogiesan

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