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Help!
Hi All,
I have a client that has requested some edits. The problem is they are Mpeg 2 encoded for DVD, and I don’t want to re-encode them and further downgrade the quality.
Can I make the edits in FCP then export as a FCP reference file, or a FCP QT to import into DVDSP.
Any ideas on this?
Thanks, Jim
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4 Replies
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You will have to re-encode… you’ll need to extract the files to boot with a demuxer, edit, then re-encode, because the MPEG for the resulting DVD has to be a single stream, right?
And it won’t be the same as the original because you’re going to be making changes so…Jerry
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recompressing them one time with at least 6mbs average shouldn’t be too bad.
But beyond that wouldn’t be recommended. -
Checkout Streamclip. https://www.squared5.com/ It’s amazing. You can convert from muxed files on a DVD to QT (I used 8-bit uncompressed), edit in fcp, and re-encode with excellent results. I just had to do this where a client only had their DVD as a master and the results were great.
John
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