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  • How should I rip DVD’s for editing in FCP

    Posted by Jeff Heywood on April 2, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    I have a bunch of DVD’s put together by a media service. They are all the media stories that have been done on our organization in the past year. I need to edit this into an end of year DVD for the board.

    I can guess at the workflow, but what is the best way to rip them from the DVD for use in FCP? It’s an older G4, with no special hardware.

    I could run the dvd’s through our HDV deck and capture the signal in HDV, through firewire to the Mac. Or I could just rip the dvd’s and convert the file to some format for editing. It’s news and highly compressed in the standard 4:3. Should I go the HDV route, or DV, or is there another format I should use. Any advice would be appreciated.

    Chris Borjis replied 19 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    April 2, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    Use Streamclip… Its free and works great.

  • Chris Borjis

    April 2, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    A fantastic tool I’ve gotten very used to on an almost weekly basis.

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