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Extract m2v from HDV MOV for BD

Hi.

I have a bunch of HDV movies that were cut in FCP and exported as self-contained HDV quicktimes that need to get to Blu-ray.

I would love to use the inherent / native MPEG2 files as I am losing quality compressing into mpeg2 via compressor... not to mention the time I could save by not having to re-encode.

Sonic Scenarist clearly doesn't like them as Apple muxed HDV Quicktimes, but I know the m2v is in there somewhere. Is there any software that I could use to extract the elementary m2v stream from the HDV quicktime file?

I tried opening the movies in MPEG Streamclip but the "demux to" options are grayed out...

Thanks in advance for the help!

best,
brian

Dual 2.5 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 9, 2008 3:50 PM

23 replies

Aug 13, 2008 9:15 AM in response to brian williams5

*HEARYE, HEARYE... I have the solution* 🙂

As you may know, DVD Studio Pro 4 supports HD-DVD Authoring using MPEG2 from the QuickTime HDV files. Yes, I know the discussion is about Blu•Ray. So here's what you do...

1. Build an HD-DVD project in DVD Studio Pro and format to a disc image.
2. Mount your HD-DVD disc image, and locate the track file (the only large file in your HVDVD_TS folder)
3. You can then use MPEG StreamClip to demux that file to the original .m2v
4. Drop the .m2v file into Toast 9 and you're off to the races! (skips encoding and goes straight to formatting)

You're welcome.

Aug 13, 2008 9:35 AM in response to brian williams5

Even quicker actually, don't bother with a disc image. Just build your project straight to an HVDVD_TS folder.

Aug 13, 2008 3:07 PM in response to Visioneer Studios

Awesome! Outstanding!

Thanks Visioneer Studios! That worked!

I did a test and, with Scenarist, I took it all the way to a burned disc and checked and it worked like a charm!

You've saved me a TON of computer time re-encoding and a potential loss in quality as well.

Thanks again everyone for the responses!

best,
brian

Aug 14, 2008 1:09 PM in response to brian williams5

And it played in a physical BD player?

If so, bravo! I had thought about whether DVDSP would be useful, but I never tried it because I figured there was some different fundamental formatting between the two formats.

By the way, I would still enjoy playing with a compile of MP4Box if anyone knew how.

~Jeremy

Aug 14, 2008 4:37 PM in response to Jeremy Hansen

PS: How can one add chapter markers to this? Does Toast allow that? I don't think they are carried in a mpeg stream, are they?

Aug 14, 2008 6:17 PM in response to Jeremy Hansen

UPDATE:

This doesn't work properly in Toast 9. It technically works, but Toast somehow butchers the video in the multiplexing process. The result is heavily artifacted video with a few patches of clarity. I've been testing some work-arounds, and it seems that you can simply build an HD project in DVD Studio Pro and change the resulting .EVO file extension to .m2ts. Toast will accept the file and burn your disc, without even needing to go into MPEG StreamClip. You'll still get the artifacted video, but that can be fixed by duplicating the toast project as a UDF data disc and swapping out the bad .m2ts file with the one from DVD Studio Pro. I'm heading out to Best Buy to test in a player right now.

Regarding Chapter markers... if the original .m2v dats from Final Cut has markers, they'll stay in the project all the way to the final disc. This was my experience anyway.

Aug 19, 2008 8:01 PM in response to Visioneer Studios

Well, I've got a PS3 on preorder. So, my contributions will have to wait a few weeks (and until the semester is underway).

dpopper

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Sep 25, 2008 8:01 AM in response to Visioneer Studios

I created a HVDVD_TS folder using DVD Studion Pro and am trying to burn a BD. When I drag the folder into Toast in the Blu_ray area, all the chapters show up, but none of the menus. When I burn, the Sony Blu-Ray player doesn't play the disc.

Any ideas?

Extract m2v from HDV MOV for BD