Capturing footage from DVD? How do you do it?

[Paul Escandon]

I use MPEG Streamclip to rip from DVD directly to a quicktime DV file. It’s free – just google it.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Winston A. cely]

When a client sends me something on DVD I like to use DVDxDV. It’s got some handy conversion features that I think are worth the price.

Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe

[Andrea Stewart]

I’ve had some serious problems with DVDxDV. When I used it last time everything came out with huge pixelations. We also bought it to run on one of our laptops so as not to occupy the FCP systems, but it wouldn’t create a usable movie on the laptop. Also, unless you get the pro version, you’re stuck with 720×480, not 720×486. Just a nuisance really.

I recommend doing exactly what you’re doing if you want the best quality, Winston. Well actually, if you want the BEST quality, use a DVD player with component out and run it through an AJA or somesuch I/O interface.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Winston A. cely]

Andrea,

Wow, I’m sure glad I haven’t had any of those problems!!! I did experience some glitches with the non-pro version, but that was over a year ago, and I bought the Pro version for my own system and haven’t had any problems. True, having the component out would by far be the best! 😀

Cheers,
Winston

Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe

[Andrea Stewart]

Woops, sorry Winston, I meant my post for Scott, the originator of the thread.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Scott Douglas]

Thanks everyone for your input. I tried the tester for DVDxDV and I also gave MPEG Stream a shot. I agree with Andrea, to get the best quality from a DVD, getting hardware to run the DVD player into and to connect with the system is probably the best idea if I needed high quality stuff from the DVD.

But, for my usage it looks like I’ll be going with MPEG Stream, I like the fact that I was able to use the keyboard to go frame by frame and set my in/out points. DVDxDV I couldn’t go frame by frame, and just wasn’t as user friendly it seemed in my brief experience, plus MPEG Stream is free, heh.

Thanks again for the help!!

Scott

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[James Haefner]

Hello All:

I needed to convert a DVD that had myCamera2 footage on. Upon reading the suggestions I downloaded Streamclip. However, I still needed to purchase the MPEG2 Video Playback application. No worries, at MAC for $20.00.

My questions and concerns are this:

* What settings should I save the footage?
* When I played the clip (ie footage) in FCP Clip monitor it plays choppy. But when placed in the timeline it plays fine. How do I fix this? I noticed when converting the preview monitor in streamclip said 12bit.

Thank you.