Ripping encripted DVDs to quicktime, then to FCP

[Rennie Klymyk]

Scotty – you should slow down and proof read, your post has sooo many typos!
It also sounds like you have been doing quite a few of these which does tend to look more like piracy activities. I can see needing to do this on a rare occassion but if you had rights to the material you should also have access to the original masters before the encoding/authoring process.

Mpeg 2 is a lossey format so you lose something everytime you convert – reconvert.

[Walter Biscardi]

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Chris Berman went to Brown University. Interesting, never thought of them as a sportscasting college.

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[Jaso Allen]

Hey guys,

I’ll preface this by saying I think i’m probably in a more niche situation than some, but certainly there are situations where you may need to do this.

I worked at a local community station on a news program, where we would often do stories on local groups or businesses. Many, MANY times we would be supplied vision owned by these people on DVD – these were typically community groups/small businesses who have shot and dvd’d stuff themselves ala iMovie/iDVD, or had it done for them by someone will skills little beyond iMovie/iDvd. The footage was always theirs, but small groups like this don’t know media, don’t keep raw footage etc.

It was all crap, low quality stuff. But we needed to rip the stuff almost day after day. Again I know this is a niche job, but there are gigs out there..

That being said I laughed as I read the first thread. Very creative, I never would have thought to ask Producer’s how to rip their own stuff myself…

Just for thought.

Jase