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Ripped DVD’s in FCP
I’m trying to understand why a music video I rip from a DVD and place into a FCP timeline looks a little weird compared to the original DVD (I think I have an idea, but my experience is mostly with audio…not sure if it’s a direct translation)
I use MPEG Streamclip to rip a music video from a DVD. I choose the ProRes422HQ codec to make the QT movie. The original was interlaced, so I select the “deinterlace” option in Streamclip, as my FCP project is progressive. As an experiment, I burn just the music video to DVD so that I can do an A-B comparison of the two. My experimental DVD looks…man, I can’t even find the words to describe it…sorta “blurry” at certain times of the video. Perhaps “blurry” is the wrong word. It just seems like there are lines of information missing or something.
Am I just seeing generational loss here? Maybe because I’m adding the extra generation of ProRes codec generation? Or is it the deinterlacing causing this?
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I wouldn’t use MPEG Stream clip to de-interlace anything. Use Compressor or FCP to do that.
Also, you don’t need ProRes HQ, ProRes itself is just fine.
But whatever you do, the resulting movie ripped from a disc is going to degrade from the original
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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What settings exactly did you use in Streamclip?
All the best,
Tom
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Hi, Tom. I’m using ProRes422HQ as my codec, 720×480 for my frame size, I choose “Deinterlace Video”, and then export. Of course, I also just read Walt’s post, so I’m thinking this may be as good as it gets?
(Well, maybe it could be a little better if I use Compressor)
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