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How can I rip a DVD with Mpeg Streamclip and maintain broadcast quality for editing in final cut?
How can I rip a DVD with Mpeg Streamclip and maintain broadcast quality for editing in final cut? Is ProRes 422 ideal? Eventually after editing in final cut, I intend on compressing, followed by creating a DVD in DVD Studio Pro. I’ve tried it with DV but when I did that, every time a person moved in the picture, there was this strobing which wasn’t in the original master.
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Hi Mike,
Being the DVDs MPEG-2 a 420/8b format, the best codec would be 8b Uncompress.
Prores would be the second best option, and the best if you have no much storage.
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Thanks Rafael. Where can I place the 8b Ucompress format? Do I go to file, export to quicktime or one of the other formats?
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Yes, export as QT Movie.
Let everything (size, pixels, field order,..) as the original, so you just transcode.
rafael
PS: The DV option exports “.dv” (DV Stream) files; the native iMovie format.
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Thanks. I’ll give that a shot.
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But still. You have to realize that footage on a DVD video already has been compressed to MPEG2.
So there already is loss in quality.
You can maintain the quality by converting it to 8 or 10 bit files but the original quality ( what the camera shot ) is gone.
If you can get your hands on the original tapes or footage that’s best.
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Something we do with SD projects is take the picture directly out of DVD player with a DVI out cable into our camera. And then edit it as normal.
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On the other hand, broadcast quality today is anything that simply doesn’t get rejected, which means video ripped from a DVD isn’t out of the question if properly color corrected.
The better question here might have been, how do I achieve “the best” quality using MPEG Streamclip?
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[David Roth Weiss] “On the other hand, broadcast quality today is anything that simply doesn’t get rejected, which means video ripped from a DVD isn’t out of the question if properly color corrected.”
Sad but true.
On the DVD part, just set it to the absolute best quality and make a ProRes file. That’s what we do here. It doesn’t get any better than the original file.
When needed we apply noise reduction and blurs to clean up the image as much as possible.
But in this day of camera phone video and flip video quality, I guess the quality of the image doesn’t matter so long as it’s compelling. Well, does that even matter anymore these days……
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Rafael Amador] “Yes, export as QT Movie.
Let everything (size, pixels, field order,..) as the original, so you just transcode.”I know that this is an old thread, but it seems to be along the lines of what I am attempting to do…
It was mentioned to ‘just transcode’. Great! But what settings do I select to keep the final file as interlaced? The DVD show as lower interlaced. How do I keep it as lower interlaced in the AppleProRes file?
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