hack or kluge to get DVD output via Kona??

[Leigh Jewell]

You could use a program like MPEG Streamclip (https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html) to rip the DVD. It would then make it DV footage which you could put into Final Cut and output.

Leigh

[Bob Flood]

thanx Leigh

true. but i was looking for a way to see my VIDEO_TS on an NTSC monitor un-re-ripped. I am having issues with authoring a dvd and i have to keep burning
discs everytime i change a seting

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Look at the bright side, Bob. You’ll have a nice set of coasters, or materials for a cool art project at the end of it.

What issues are you having and why can’t you just watch the DVD in DVD Player before you burn it? That way the only thing you are wasting is gigabytes which are fully replenishable.

Jeremy

[Bob Flood]

Jeremy

Yeah i got so many coasters i should open a retaurant supply company 🙂

its all about intelace vs progressive

i am getting artifacts which are not showing up until i see the video on an ntsc monitor

strobing and such. and i don’t know exactly where they are coming from

I export an 8 bit uncomp qt out of fcp and it looks fine

i take it into compressor and suddenly it gets strobe-y, like its being de interlaced. I am sure if i wrap my head around it i can figure it out, but it would be nice to watch my dvd file on an ntsc monitor.

anyway, i may try squeezing it to see if its any better

thanx again

bee eph

[Jeremy Garchow]

Is your footage interlaced or progressive from FCP? Are you encoding interlaced or progressive in compressor? You say you are exporting uncompressed, so I assume you are working in a 720×486 timeline, are you sure Compressor is cropping the image correctly (4 lines off of the top and two off of the bottom)? If not you are reversing the field order and could maybe produce the strobe you are seeing. Are you using a compressor preset or a custom setup?

Jeremy

[Mike Johnson]

there is a thing called DVD-RW/DVD+RW….

[Aaron Neitz]

I had to make a custom setting in Compressor for Mpeg-2 with Lower fields. The presets always had weird interlace artifacts.

[Mike Johnson]

if you render out using odd field first on source that’s recorded with even it will look very wierd. Or the other way around, even when there is odd.

[Steve Connor]

Definately a field issue!

[Erik Lindahl]

I’d love to see this feature as well. Video out through DVDSP would “rock” simply put. Yes you can burn the discs, but that’s a hassle and I don’t have a DVD-player connected to my SDI-monitor.

Converting DVD/MPEG2 back to editable video isn’t a solution at all.