DVD to After Effects to DVD

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DVD to After Effects to DVD

Posted by Mike Wheeler on February 16, 2007 at 7:25 pm

Hey…

I am trying to take video from a DVD, make some changes in AE, and then export it back out to burn back onto a DVD….

I have a DVD ripper here… but what format should I rip it in, and then when the changes are made, what are the best settings to export it out again for a DVD burn?

Thanks for any advice…

Mike Wheeler replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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Mylenium
February 16, 2007 at 7:45 pm

Always rip to uncompressed formats, du your stuff then re-encode. Watch out for block artifacts from the original compression. You can get rid of them to some extent using plugins or AE-only techniques (search this forum for removing DV artifacts), but you should have no illusions – the newly encoded clip will always degrade in quality and have more artifacts than the original, rregardless how carefully you proceed.

Mylenium

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Mike Wheeler
February 16, 2007 at 8:07 pm

Hey thanks for the quick reply…

I kinda figured that there would be some loss of quality there along the way somewhere… but I am still wondering which codec to use when ripping, I can’t seem to find an uncompressed option.. I am using AOA DVD Ripper and it gives me these codec options:

Cinepak by radius
Intel Indo Video 4.5
Microsoft Video 1
h264 – H264/ AVC encoder
VP70 General Profile
Canopus DV Codec for DVBooster Pack
DivX 6.4.0

Any of these worthwhile?

Thanks!
Mylenium
February 16, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Does it offer you a “none” or “no compression” option? The CoDecs you listed are all quite a bit compressed, but if you have no other choice, use H.264 with a rather high data rate – AE will at least be able to read this with the help of Quicktime.

Mylenium

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Mike Wheeler
February 18, 2007 at 12:03 am

No… There is no option for No Compression… if there was, what format would that be in? Do you know of any ripping software that offers that option?

Thanks for all of your help, very appreciated!
Tielman Dewaele
February 18, 2007 at 2:35 am

oi,

Try Canopus Procoder. Its pretty expensive, but it is good.
It rips, converts,.. everything you want. Dvd to avi, avi to dvd, avi to Quicktime and so on…
Otherwise iff you dont want to spent money, try searching on google for freeware dvd rippers. There are lots! With the NO compression option encluded…

Peace
Mike Wheeler
February 19, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Thanks for the replies… I know someone with Procoder so I’ll drop over to his studio for this rip…

Once I convert the files to Avi, and make my changes in AE… what is the best method to export them from AE to burn onto a DVD again with max quality?

Thanks again!

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