[David Rowan]

There are tutorials that come with FCP. Thats a good place to start.

DWR

[David Rowan]

DVD’s are really not a great source for video. As the other posts indicate you really need a 3rd party conversion tool(program) to “dis-assemble” the DVD and “re-assemble” it into a quicktime file you can use.

If you have a capture card or a firewire device (camera or deck) with an input it would be better to run the signal from your VHS deck through that, and capture via firewire. Same goes for the DVD, just hook up a DVD player and play it through your firewire camera or capture device.

I’m fortunate enough to have an AJA IO, so I quit dealing with trying to convert DVD’s. Its just a lot simpler to play them from a DVD player. The way they were meant to be used. I don’t imagine that a good DVD player sending out a signal over S-VHS or Component would have worse image quality than taking the MPEG file of the disk and running it through some 3rd party program.

DWR

[David Rowan]

DVD’s are really not a great source for video. As the other posts indicate you really need a 3rd party conversion tool(program) to “dis-assemble” the DVD and “re-assemble” it into a quicktime file you can use.

If you have a capture card or a firewire device (camera or deck) with an input it would be better to run the signal from your VHS deck through that, and capture via firewire. Same goes for the DVD, just hook up a DVD player and play it through your firewire camera or capture device.

I’m fortunate enough to have an AJA IO, so I quit dealing with trying to convert DVD’s. Its just a lot simpler to play them from a DVD player. The way they were meant to be used. I don’t imagine that a good DVD player sending out a signal over S-VHS or Component would have worse image quality than taking the MPEG file of the disk and running it through some 3rd party program.

DWR

[David Rowan]

The other thread seemed very complete, but here is one more thing for you to look at:

https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_scanpro.html

DWR

[David Rowan]

I hope someone will elaborate on this, especially if I’m wrong, but…

Don’t you need to have a RAID with a couple of drives in it in order to have the bps for uncompressed video? Even if your media drive is an internal SATA would it be fast enough for Uncompressed, or do you need to have a SATA RAID?

In the “Checking the obvious” category, you did go into the system preferences and make sure that the Capture Scratch is set to the drive you want for media, right? Amazing how that little bugger gets switched around.

DWR

[David Rowan]

I found this solution and it worked, but I doubt you would ever “Guess” at this.

If your files won’t open with the right program then you can try the following solution:

delete the files
/Users/_your_name_/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-014501.csstore
/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-0140.csstore
(the numbers may vary), and then restart your computer!

Thanks to Vincent for this

DWR

[David Rowan]

Yes Yes, I checked the disks, I rebuilt permissions, I re-booted, all before the first post, thats SOP for any problems. I’ve tried a bunch of things like changing which programs should open pictures ( like using photoshop, etc…). I also went into the preferences on Preview, and I tried carefully changing things, one at a time.

It seems like it should be something simple, and I’, just missing it.

DWR

[David Rowan]

I tried that before I posted, but thanks. Anyone else?

DWR

[David Rowan]

I have a DVD player in the edit booth, just play it through the capture card, in my case an AJA IO. Quick and simple and looks great.

DWR

[David Rowan]

I just got my own system, and since I only have one Apple display I got the DVI to Video adapter and plugged that into the second monitor output. Now my NTSC monitor is my second computer screen, and when I work in photoshop I can drag the images over and quickly check them for how they look on TV.

I haven’t done it yet (since I only hooked it up last night), but I also plan on using it to check the DVD preview in DVD studio pro, as well as a way to see what I’m doing in FCP.

At the TV station where I work we have Kona cards for the Macs in the Art Department, and they run everything out to the system and their monitors through the Konas.

DWR