Having problems importing home movie DVD

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Having problems importing home movie DVD

I have created a dvd of my home movies and I can't get it to import into final cut so I can work with it. It keeps telling me I have an error. so I tried to turn it into a quick time movie and I cant get it to open there either. Is there something else I need to do firt to my DVD movie first

Posted on Sep 28, 2005 3:15 PM

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Answer 1

Alchroma

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Sep 28, 2005 3:31 PM in response to Amanda Linn

Amanda

DVD is not directly compatilbe with FCE. You will have to de-multiplex the DVD. Search this forum for "de-mux" to get some ideas.
An easy way to get footage to FCE is to play the DVD in a player that is connected to a DV camera with analogue cables and make a copy, then bring this into FCE.

Al

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Answer 2

Sep 29, 2005 8:55 AM in response to Amanda Linn

try handbrake, it's a free app, does the job without problems. or buy dvdtodv

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Answer 3

Sep 29, 2005 9:45 AM in response to jan nijboer1

Handbrake is a nice tool, but the problem is that it will "rip" the DVD video to mpeg-4 format. You are already behind the eight-ball because the DVD video is already encoded (mpeg-2) and quality loss is inevitable. Further re-encoding to mpeg-4 will just degrade it further.

If the original material is not available and you must rip the video from a DVD, using one of the tools that rips directly to DV format is your best bet for minimizing quality drop.

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