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Want to rip my dvd to format that is supported by premiere pro without losing any quality?
I made a film awhile back and i put it on dvd and i now want to rip it to a format that supported by premiere without losing any quality so i can do some color correction?
Doesn’t matter how big the file will be if i rip it. Just whats the best way to do it and Best quality? -
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You can certainly rip with any number of commercial, shareware or freeware rippers you’ll find via Google but it’s not possible to reverse the effects of MPEG-2 compression.
Noah
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You are going to lose some quality re-editing this way. But if you must, be sure to frame serve the MPEG files to PPRO as opposed to rendering out an avi then re-editing.
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So I renamed my vob file to a mpg and brought into ppro but its harder to edit than regular captured footage from my cam. How do i fix that and i think when you say frame serve to ppro thats what will fix it but i dont know how to do that. Could you please explain.
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When I need to edit MPEG in PPRO or AE, here’s how I do it:
I load and select my MPEG (VOB, mpg etc) clips using DGIndex, which is basically DVD2AVI, but creates an index file. Then, I load the index file into VFAPI (the frame server,) which then creates a virtual AVI file. You can then load the AVI into PPRO and edit away.Now, it’s not pefect. It’s a bit slower editing than a real AVI file, but PPRO doesn’t seem to choke on the file, like it does with straight MPEGs.
Frame serving this way, saves you a bit more quality than re-compressing your MPEG file into an AVI with DVD2AVI and editing that way – although that is certainly an option for you if performance in PPRO becomes an issue.
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is DGIndex a program. and if so where can i get it
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Yeah freeware – google both and you should find the downloads:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-09,GGLD:en&q=dgindex+vfapi -
I downloaded DGMPGDec Version 1.4.6 Beta 2 Executables, is there anything else i need and when i got them what do i do.
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Here’s VFAPI:
https://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/VFAPIConv-1.05-EN.zipDGindex is pretty straight forward. Open you mpeg, select your clip, save your file, then open that file in VFAPI and you’ll be frameserving.
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Whenever i transport the video file out of dgindex and then pull it into vfapi and then make a virtual avi and i pull it into ppro, ppro comes up with an error that says unsupported file type
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