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Serious help needed please
I just completed a DVD project,just prior to a major melt down of my harddrive causing me to lose everything, But the bright spot is I have the final DVD done, the problem is, I need to insert a song/video into the project, now the only way I see that I can do this is to rip the dvd cut it up insert the missing song and reasemble, the problem is when I re-render the files I lose quality, can anyone give me a quick answer to this, please,
System: Mac G5
4gigs Ram
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No other way except to rip the DVD files, or capture the DVD from a player as an analog source.
Better by far would be to recreate your project using a new hard drive.
If you “can’t”, your’re going to have to live with the DVD source.
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You MIGHT want to try ripping it as an mpeg2 and audio file… this might save the quality. Then rebuild it in DVDSP by adding a story marker pointing to the song you need to insert.
CaptM
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Why not recapture from your original project file. Don’t tell me that the only version lived on the fried HD! 😉 If so, another reason to back up project files to iDisk or the like.
Kevin Monahan
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MPEG Streamclip is a free app that will help you do what you need. I used it recently when the only source was a DVD of a corporate project. I used the 8-bit uncompressed codec and was amazed at the quality. I got much more that I expected. https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
John
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