Capturing from DVD

[Wintergal]

I purchased a $25 program- DVDXDVD and it worked fine.

[13]

I think you are using a DVD Recorder, the firewire connection on DVD recorders in an input only, used to play from a camera to the DVD recorder. Yes DVD recorders can also play DVD’s but they to not play out through the firewire port. You also cant record to a DVD Recorder from FCP through firewire you need to go through a camera or deck first.

[Christopher Pavsek]

You can also use a program like “Handbrake” to rip the dvd and make an avi or mp4 file. This can be converted to your needed format in compressor.

[Neil Ryan]

You also MPEG Streamclip.
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

“You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6 or 7, and use them with many other applications or devices. Requires Quicktime or Quicktime Alternative installed. “

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[zrb123] ” You also cant record to a DVD Recorder from FCP through firewire you need to go through a camera or deck first.
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According to some posters here, some set-top DVD recorders CAN record via FW directly from the Mac with a manual FCP playback

Don’t know if its the Mac’s issue or the DVD recorder’s issue.

So I guess you can give it a try with your set-up and see if it works.

But I just always dub first from FCP to DV tape, then I can make my DVDs dubs while I continue to edit on the Mac.

[Rafael Amador]

Matte,
The signal that you get through FireWire from your desk or gamara is just a digital video signal, but what you get from a DVD player is a MPG2 stream that I don’t think FC can manage in any way.
Cheers,
Rafael

[13]

Every one I have tried it with FCP always wants deck control (FF/RW/Play/Pause) because the DVD Recorder cant give this it will not work. If there is one that will that would be great though.

[Ben Holmes]

[zrb123] “Every one I have tried it with FCP always wants deck control (FF/RW/Play/Pause) because the DVD Recorder cant give this it will not work”

Any source that FCP can see can be captured without deck control as long as the ‘non-controlled device’ setting is selected in the setup.

All of this is by-the-by. As has been previously said, that FW connection is not for output anyway – a DVD deck encodes to MPEG2, how would it send a DV stream over firewire? You have a DVD drive on your Mac, most likely, so you can put the DVD in the Mac and use MPEG Streamclip, which is free btw and very easy to use, to convert your MPEG2 to QT so you can use it in FCP. It will look horrible because DVD encoding is rubbish, and it looks much worse when played back in an NLE, rather than through the filters and electronics on a DVD deck.

Best of luck.

Ben

[Rafael Amador]

I agree with you Ben. whenever i need to pick something from a DVD i use MPGStreamclip and I export the piece of MPG2 as 8/10B Unc, never in DV.
Cheers,
rafael