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DVD Ripping Troubles
I am trying to get some footage from unprotected DVDs for working in FCP. I am copying the VOB files to my hard drive and converting them using Compressor to .mov . My problem is that the audio disappears. I can pipe the video through a deck and capture using firewire but would rather avoid that. Does anyone know what’s going on? I used to be able to rip DVDs, i also tried other soft on a pc which used to work for me before and still no luck.
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#7 DVD into FCP
Shane’s Stock Answer #7:
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 (Google it). 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 Stream clip. This is free.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Thanks, Shane. Will try.
Question: is there any sense in trying to go for a better quality transfer from dvd, perhaps to dvcpro50? especially since i’ll have to recompress again and put the finished product on another dvd.
p.s. dvd is legal.
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If you are adding graphics the answer is yes, if not DV is as good as your video will ever get.
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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great, thx.
btw. do you know what field order i have to specify if i am converting from the dvd to dvcpro50 ntsc in mpeg streamclip?
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More than likely lower.
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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