DVD to after effects

[Andrew Shanks]

I assume this is a DVD you have rights to (I don’t condone piracy, it hurts our industry), …but there are lots of time when you might need to use DVD sourced footage (I know clients sometimes come in with it as source thinking its the best format to use, ….ugh, give me a break). Anyway, there are various methods out there for doing this, on the pc if you look around you can find the old free version of DVD2AVI which can convert DVD files to avi video files (which can be imported into after effects or your editing application for use). Note you possibly will need to have ripped the files off the DVD to start with, DVD Decrypter is another freely available little application that you’ll find that does this.

Having said that, the most elegant, straightforward way of doing this that I’ve found (I was doing a showreel for a friend recently and he wanted to use the graded, letterboxed, final mixed version of a couple of short film clips, so we used the DVD of the short for this perpose as we couldn’t get a high-end tape dub), is a program called Cinematize 2.0, ….its a fairly cheap, simple little application that can convert files straight from an (unprotected) DVD (or ripped dvd files) to quicktime (and supports any quicktime codec, as well as ipod video output, so is handy if you wanna store some viewing material on your ipod for a plane/train/bus trip, or pop your showreel on your ipod in case you need to show a potential client a little teaser. The link for Cinematize is as follows and works on Mac or PC (I use the PC version).

https://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html

Cheers,

andrew

[Justin Productions]

Bien…avec Adobe Encore DVD, tu peux convertir tes highlights et tes boutons dans AE et vice-versa.

C’est rare qu’on voit des personnes qui parlent fran

[Martin Lamontagne]

Hi Andrew!

Thx for the tips and don’t worry on the DVD it’s a direct burn of Betacam done with a ordinary home burner. Wich include the content he have produce. He want me to do a DVD promo of his stuff. I’ve tried free stuff (Auto Gordian Knot) wich have done a pretty good job for now, but it’s in Xvids and After Effects don’t reconize the stuff. I’ll look after Cinematize 2.0…

Salut Justins, oui j’ai Adobe Encore, mais il ne peux transferrer un DVD graver en vid

[Vince Becquiot]

Salut,

You can also try this little trick, it works for me most of the time.

Copy the .vob files from the DVD to your desktop, and rename them .Mpg. That requires that the “show extention for known files” be unabled on a PC.

AE should recognize them as valid video files.

Cheers,

Vince

[Martin Lamontagne]

Hi Vince,

Nice trick but it doesn’t work well for me. The footage is recognize but he doesn’t apply the good lenght.. 16 sec instead of 4min30. Plus, it’s render bad frame taken anywhere on the footage so it jumps from anywhere to anywhere. My solution was to take it from DVD to AutoGK then To Premiere back to After effects, but between AutoGK and Premiere I lose the sound… LOL!

3 conversions is really really bad. I’ve tried the demo version of Cinmatize and I was unable to tranfert even 1 frame. Errors saying vob file is missing even if I take it diretly from the DVD.

I think that this DVD is not so well burn at firts. That’s maybe why I’m unable to just turn it into MPG.

Thx a lot

Martin

[Vince Becquiot]

Ha, yes, I did encounter this issue a couple of time. (Which is why I wrote worked “most of the times” 😉

I believe it simply has to do with the way it was encoded, not that it is actually a bad encoding.

I have seen this happen whith DVD recorder set to an extended play, where the horizontal resolution was cut in half.

I have also sucessfully used a demuxer in that case, it splits the vob files back into separate Video and Audio files.

This one is a shareware: https://www.dvd-logic.com/demuxer.htm

Cheers,

Vince