capturing footage for a Demo Reel

[Geraint Pari huws]

when you say burned to dvd…as what? If it’s a domestic dvd then you can download shareware programmes to rip from the dvd to dozens of formats you can just drag and drop into avid, or just load composite or svideo staight off the dvd player in real time if necessary.

[Rc Maples]

burned to DVD as like a region-1 DVD. I believe they were mpeg4 when I burned the DVD with DVD studio Pro.. But you pop them in the DVD player and they just start playing. I’ll see if I can find a ripper program to Get it into a different format. Thanks!

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[Grinner Hester]

do you not have a DVD player?
I just digitize am analog with deck control turned off.

[Rc Maples]

I do, but I dont have any video inputs on my PC other than Firewire, and the DVD player doesn’t have a firewire output. I have a DVD player in my computer, but I can’t seem to get Xpress Pro to recognize it as a source to capture from. And the ripper’s I’ve been able to find shareware or freeware aren’t too great and the quality is not something I’d like to put on my reel.

*sigh* Who woulda thought It would be this hard to get video off DVD.. If I had I would have just made my copies of all this on miniDV instead.

Ah well, if anyone has any other Ideas, I’m listening!

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Doobie Doobie Doo
beware the penguins

[Praxisseizure]

i use clad dvd (google clad dvd, it’s free) to rip the files to m2v mpeg 2 streams.
Then I use procoder to transcode to quicktime.
procoder is a bit costly, so if you need free transcoding software, virtual dub works too. (google virtual dub) you’ll get .avi’s which you need to transcode again with premiere to quicktimes. I suggest doing all transcoding with uncompressed avi & quicktime settings. They’re big, but the quality stays.
import quicktimes into avid.

there might be quicker tools out there. i don’t do this unless I absolutely have to. it takes quite a while.

[John Cuevas]

You may need to find a ripping program that’s a little better then shareware. I can’t reccommend one, cause when we picked up the Digital Rapids Compression system, it included a demux with it that converts to Avid uncompressed. I would keeping looking for a good program to demux the DVD, I’ve never been overly happy with just plugging a DVD player into the avid and taking the composite.

For the future though, I would reccommend at a minimun keeping your MPEG2 files and burning them to a DVD as source material. Makes it a lot easier to change or update if you don’t have to demux.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Rc Maples]

Well I found a good demuxer to get it stripped down to the audio file and the .m2v mpeg 2 file. But Virtual Dub told me it doesn’t transcode Mpeg 2. It would do .m1v, but not .m2v. So I’ll see what I Can find in the transcoder department of Google. Thanks for the help!

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Doobie Doobie Doo
beware the penguins

[Rc Maples]

Belay My last, I found a nother version of VitrualDub that provides support for mpeg 2! I think I might be able to see a light at the end of this tunnel!

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Doobie Doobie Doo
beware the penguins

[Rc Maples]

Well their in AVI’s (massive files I might add) and I have them rendered and everything in premiere, but I can’t export to quicktime or anything else. I go to export>movie and Premiere crashes harder than the Mars Rover. I’ve also tried dumping to tape via my GL2 and it acts like its playing a CD with scratches. It skips around and completely destroyed the footage.

I tried importing the AVI’s into AXpro without transcoding to quicktime, and it tels me its getting video from QT but then it doesn’t play in the timeline. I can advacne frame by frame, but it just doesn’t do anything when it plays back. The timeline cursor moves along like its playing, but the video stays the same.

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Doobie Doobie Doo
beware the penguins

[Brian De herrera-schnering]

Use your GL2 as a trancoder. And bring them in analogue.

Brian