[Chimin Lee]

I finally had some success – and found out some things:
– you must have DVD ripper PLATINUM version for the DVVIDEO codec to appear; and the codec are all included
– the latest version on their site was able to convert my DVD, 24fps, including each chapter as separte file . 4.0.40 worked; 4.0.37 crashed on about half the chapters.

Premiere seems to be very happy with the resulting file; it looks to be in sync, the timeline is 29.97 and no rendering required. So it’s faster than capturing a DVD to a DV tape or realtime import…because the conversion is faster than real time (at least on a 1.8Ghz P4).

I tried Canopus as well, but Premiere chocked on the file; stuttered and slower playback. I’m sure some settings could have been tweaked to fix this – but Procoder couldn’t separate the DVD chapters, so I didn’t bother testing more.

[Chimin Lee]

Anyone know of other utilities that will convert DVD to DVVideo? Something I could buy or try online preferred…

THx

[Chimin Lee]

I think it came with IMToo; here’s how to check:
1. select profile ‘AVI – Audio Video Interleaved’
2. click the ‘video codec’ that appears on the right
3. dvvideo should appear on the drop-down.

then you can ‘save as’ a new profile with those settings.

If it doesn’t show up on yours I’m not sure where mine came from – but it’s definitely not great, as it crashes too much…although the built-in profile that exports to MPEG4 works every time on the same source.

[Chimin Lee]

Well I’ve been trying to get ImToo to work since I have that, and can’t try out Canopus (I don’t see a trial version on their site). These DVDs are not protected, so I shouldn’t have to deal with that process…so here’s the settings I’ve tried in ImToo – which work beautifully some of the time…and the other 80% Im Too crashes:

tested imtoo settings:
duration: full

video:
codec: dvvideo
video size: auto
Bit Rate: 3200
Fram Rate: auto

audio:
Audio codec: pcm_s16le
bit rate: auto
Sample Rate: 48000
channels: 2
Disable Audio: False

The Zoom is set to ‘Full’

The chapters are found (which is one of my requirements – can Canopus Procorder do this?) . I took a guess on the Bit Rate: setting; have also tried 1200…and the audio Codec I was also a guess; I didn’t pick AC3 because it should be just 2 channels. Since it works on some chapters I’m trying to determine if there’s something different on the source DVD for those, but I figure it’s more likely I’ve set the encoding paramaters wrong.
Has anyone had better luck with Im TOO or suggestions on the settings?

I’m dealing with film Dalies, which is why they’re on the DVD at 24fps.

[Chimin Lee]

I am looking for the same thing; I need to take a DVD and:
– automatically separate each chapter into a clip
– handle the 24FPS encoding on the DVD (I don’t care if it goes in to 24FPS or 30FPS on my timeline, I just want it to be in sync when I export to DVD or a WMV)
– import the clips to Premiere

I am going to try ImToo for this; but does anyone know of utilities that will automatically separate chapters and handle 24FPS DVD sources?

For general help Jay – try:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools.

and this also might work – appears to ‘trick’ premiere into thinking it has an AVI file to work with, when really it’s the MPEG from your DVD (would save rendering time)
“How to frameserve DVD/MPEG2/HDTV to an advanced video editor”
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=261416