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Capturing DVD video onto AVID
I’m looking to cut together a few DVD’s. Has anyone ever directly hooked up a DVD player to an Avid and captured footage?
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i did it today. Lined the DVD player S-video out into the breakout box (I’m on an old Avid Xpress Meridien…what a workhorse. I love it). Routed the audio through my mixer and set the digitize/capture setting to S-Video and voila! Instant capture from a DVD. Wish I would have figured it out about a month ago when I spent about four hours ripping files, converting, reripping, rendering in after effects to get an Avid happy format, etc…etc…etc… So now when clients ask to bring footage on DVD, say yes.
Michael.
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Congrats. I knew there was a better way.
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If you don’t have a breakout box you can easily rout S-Video from a DVD player through a home video camera. Put the camera on VTR mode and attach an S-cable and some RCA to mini audio and Voila! I did it all the time before I found some sweet third party programs that Rip right from the computer’s DVD drive.
Good luck.
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That’s great. What are these “third party programs.”
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Download this trial. See if it works for you.
https://www.aoamedia.com/dvd_ripper.htm
If it’s not what you’re looking for I’m sure a google search for DVD Convert or something like that will turn up hundreds more. Good luck.
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Well, I already use DVD Shrink, which rips the DVD quite well onto my hard drive, but I don’t know how to turn those VSO files into Avid media files. Any suggestions?
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I’m not familiar with that format, although I assume there are plenty of programs that can convert them. Did your AVID come with Sorenson Squeeze? My only real suggestion is to start installing DVD and Video conversion program trials until you find the best one for your purposes. I was on the market for a good Ipod ripping program and after 4 or 5 tries I found an awesome one. The programs are small and easy to download, install, and completely remove. They’re also cheap. I no longer use a DVD to High Quality Video ripper because I personally have no use for it, but I’m sure there are great ones.
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