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No audio import with _RM & _TS from DVD
I have the DVD from being a guest on a TV program. The Station provided me with a single DVD from the spot (24 minutes in three segments) and the permissions to reproduce the content into lesser versions (for web, email, and promotional). Cool. But I can neither get FCP602 nor iMovie to also import the audio; FCP says it doesn’t recognize the _RM folder I suppose. Using a 24 iMac, 3GB, 2.16, lots of room and all ten fingers. All I get is the video track. The audio track in FCP displays only as a 2-channel but no indication of any waveforms.
Not trying to bust anything, I could do that on the PC’s, but want to make versions of QTP741 in mv4, mov, and anything else I can use. And, I own the mpeg2 from Apple but don’t need it being that I can’t even get the DVD’s audio to import.
Thanks for any help.
Rev. Orin Jenkins
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#7 DVD into FCP
Shane’s Stock Answer #7: Importing DVD footage into FCP
To start, I will state that trying to capture any DVD you bought or rented, be it a Hollywood movie or exersize video, is illegal. I will not give you any tips on how to bypass copy protection. It is there for a reason.
To capture footage from a DVD, you have a couple options.
1) Route the DVD player to your DV camera or deck via the RCA cabling. Then you can put the footage you want ontp DV tape and have the benefit of timecode in case the need to recapture comes up.
2) You can get a great application called DVDxDV (www.dvdxdv.com). This opens up the DVD and allows you to convert the video to DV/NTSC footage. And it allows you to only convert what you want by allowing you to mark in and out points. The free version puts a big watermark across the center of your footage, but if you pay $25 for the standard version, that goes away.
Or you can use MPEG Streamclip. This is free. Not as reliable, but free.
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That was quick, Shane — thanks.
Being a minister I would never have the need to do anything illegal, but thanks for the disclaimer for all to see.
I thought about connecting our Z1U to a player and HD the output to tape, then send it over but thought there would be an easier way. Having wasted a lot of time I should have done that first, thanks.
And thanks for the link to dvdxdv.com in case one of us is ever a “Star” again for a 24:08.22 moment of fame and need to go that route.
Now, where did we leave the Z1U?……Anyone seen those HVC’s? Elmer, get away from that wheelbarrow!! You know you don’t know a thing about machinery!
Orin’s day to day.
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