One format to rule them all… in my dreams. Panasonic DVD-RAM issue

[Walter Biscardi]

Go analog, that will probably yield your best results rather than doing all kinds of conversions after the fact. The Kona does excellent hardware conversions of all formats so connect to it and let the Kona bring in the footage at whatever format you’re working in.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[Michael Black FCP] “Apparently the software it comes with is PeeCee only, so I can’t digitize from the camera or put the DVDs into the DVD drive either.”

Well, any “burned DVD” must be “Finalized” before it will play in a “standard DVD player”.

That”Finalize” step must be done by putting the DVD back in the camera that shot it and performing the process.

After that, you can play it in a DVD player (and capture analog) or use Mac “DVD Ripper” software to convert it to an editable form for FCP.
Here are 3 popular rippers.

https://www.dvdxdv.com/

https://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html

Mpeg SlipStream is very popular. Found at the following link>

https://www.squared5.com/

[Michael Black fcp]

Awesome, thanks. That should be the best way of going about it. Now I have to finalize about 80 of these DVDs!

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[Michael Black FCP] “Now I have to finalize about 80 of these DVDs!”

Oh My G–

How did you get THIS “opportunity”? :-0

[Walter Biscardi]

[Michael Black FCP] “Awesome, thanks. That should be the best way of going about it. Now I have to finalize about 80 of these DVDs!”

Dude, you need a high school intern, stat!

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Rennie Klymyk]

I recently had to work with one of these dvd-camera discs. What I found was there were tc breaks every time the camera was paused during recording. I used squared8 streamclip to convert the files and even though I had “repair tc breaks” checked in the preferences it still choked on these ones. You could see about a 1 second freeze at the end of every new take (in slipstream). I’m not sure if this is to do with the gop structure of mpeg2 as opposed to solid frame video or what but this is definatly not a great editing format. Then I discovered in the menu bar there is a second “fix tc break” function, I think it’s under “edit.” Selecting it went through and repaired all of these breaks. Streamclip has virtually every codec fcp has. I ended up spending a lot of time on it as it’s fairly complex compared to the drag and drop simplicity of other apps. I didn’t time it but the re-encoding went fast. However my 1GB mini-disc yielded a 13GB qt mov file (704×480). If you can finalize the discs so they play in a dvd player there is a lot to be said for Walter’s suggestion of patching a dvd player to your kona.

“everything is broken”

[Michael Black fcp]

I ended up just doing an analog transfer to DVCam. It’s been a bitch (all real-time transfer) but there were so many glitches on these stupid DVDs that bringing them in through slipstream ended up giving me only 3 minutes of the 30 minutes that were on the disc. But anyway, at least this way we have a solid source to work from as opposed to this horrible consumer crap.