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What is the best way to capture or import footage from a DVD to Final Cut?
I have a analog to digital converter connected to a DVD deck firewired into my powerbook. When I try to capture from the DVD deck in Final Cut I am having issues with dropped frames. I have also tried MPEG Streamclip and Mac the Ripper with little help. What is the best way to capture DVD footge to Final Cut?
Please help me, this is really frustrating.
Thank You
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3 Replies
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If you don’t own the copyrights to that DVD it is against the law to copy. If you do then you need a reverse telecine application which is DVDxDV (www.dvdxdv.com) it reverses the telecine process and put it back to a media that FCP can read and import. There is no need to capture the footage the way you are doing. The application DVDxDv won’t reverse any DVD that is copyrighted.
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DVXDV takes the digital video compression format used in a DVD (MPEG-2 format) and converts it to the DV (sometimes called DV-25 because it uses 25 megabits per second) digital video compression format.
A telecine is a machine that converts film to video, usually also converting the 24 frames per second of film to the 29.97 frames per second of NTSC video. Reverse telecine refers to taking 29.97 frame per second video and converting it to 24 frame per second video, usually for the purpose of editing a film with frame accuracy on a non-linear editing system.
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Here’s what I’ve done in the past:
I’ve used Cinematize to extract the video and audio, then imported it into FCP with no troubles whatsoever. This, of course, doesn’t work with copy-protected DVDs.
Otherwise, I’ve done what you have done, which is to say that I played the DVD through an analog to digital converter, but with one difference from your method: I recorded the DVD on to a DV tape and then used the DV tape my source for digitizing into FCP.
best of luck to you!
Simon
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