importing dvd video into FCP

[Chris Detjen]

Use the program called MPEG Streamclip to convert the files on the DVD into a Quicktime movie. Import the resluting QT file into FCP.

[Zane Barker]

[raju] “nauturally i want full quality too”

If you want full quality then you will need to get the original master because it has already been compressed so it could be put on the DVD.

[Chuck Reti]

Use MPEG Streamclip (free), Handbrake (free), DVDxDV, Cinematize and many others.

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[Ty Ford]

Chuck,

Thanks! I’m from across the hall in the audio forum and this helps me a lot. Stop by sometime if your audio is wacky.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

I gotta say I have NEVER been successful pulling video from a commercial DVD that’ll import into FCP with MacTheRipper, DVDxDV, Handbrake or Cinematize. I just tried it again with “Edward Scissorhands.” I had already trashed MacThe Ripper, but I couldn’t get the others to crack the DVD, or, if they did, FCP didn’t recognize the file format even if it played in Quicktime on my Mac.

Streamclip is now trying and is showing progress….Will it make it?! It’s working a little faster than realtime. It’s showing over 100 timecode breaks in about 26 minutes of programming in the first test DVD; a burn from MD Pub TV of a Show a friend of mine was on recently. Yep it works, but falls to the ground on Mr. Scissorhands.

Regards,

Ty (how I spent a friday afternoon) Ford

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[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Ty Ford] “Edward Scissorhands”

Edward Scissorhands is a commecial copyrighted and copy-protected DVD.

[Steven Gonzales]

Circumvention of DVD encryption can carry a penalty for first time offenders of $500,000, imprisonment for five years, or both.

I don’t think you want to post on public forums that you are attempting to circumvent DVD encryption.

[Ty Ford]

I’m not writing the code, Steven. Go rattle your sabre somewhere else.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Raju Bhai]

thanks, is MPEG Streamclip the best program for converting the DVD movie so that there is no degradation in quality? OK, naturally the video was already compressed when it was encoded into a DVD, but i don’t want it recompressed or affected when i encode it back to a QT file. Let me know!

[Raju Bhai]

Thanks!
I checked out the links but I can’t tell which will be the best free program to use for BEST QUALITY, do u have a preference?