How To Import A DVD Into Final Cut Pro

Google for Mpeg Streamclip and use that.

However, it won't be any good... AND it will take forever to encode it for you...

I'd spend the 2 hours and 30 minutes recapturing the clips from the tape.

Good luck,

CaptM

You would have to rip your dvd and then import the video into Final Cut. Here is a program good for this.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Video/HandBrake.shtml

Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Have to say that I would go along with the other poster and re-import the footage as working from the DVD will always be a big compromise.

You have already compressed the footage once to put it on DVD and now plan to take it back (in compressed form) then send it back - quality will suffer.

If quality is less of an issue then google for 'Mac the Ripper' which is a great DVD ripper for the Mac then, as someone mentioned, MPEG Streamclip. This will produce a .mov file that you can edit etc.,

Sure you realise this now but always wise to keep the project intact until after the DVD has proved to be OK. Not sure also how you managed to send an unrenderred clip - I though when you export from FCP to MPEG2 it has to render first?

Best of luck,

Michael

Mac the Ripper is for decrypting commercial DVDs, not for converting a DVD you created. MPEG Streamclip or DVDxDV are the tools to do that.

Patrick

Fair enough Patrick, have to admit that I have always followed this path for speed options. I felt it quicker for MPEG Streamclip to work with a file on the HD rather than constantly back and forth to a DVD.

Perhaps I will test this properly one day to see if there is a difference!

Michael

With his own created dvd all you'll need to do is copy the folders right to your HD. No need to 'rip' it.

CaptM

It is not possible to burn a DVD with an 'unrendered clip'. Perhaps you you mean something else entirely.

There is another possible path here. Take the files and bring them into DVD Studio Pro. In DVDSP you can do a simple cuts only edit to replace the original with the revised scene. Since the files remain in the mpeg2 format, no decompression/recompression takes place with its accompanying problems.

x

You WILL loose quality... with anything you rip from a dvd.

Again, if you have your project file still (which you should... NEVER throw those away!) you can batch capture only the clips you used from the tapes and your project will be exactly the same as it was. No re-editing needed.

If that's the way you want to go, start a new thread about reconnecting media from tapes... or read up on it in the manual.

VERY easy... like I said, 2 hour sequence, 2 hours of tape -- plus 30 minutes setting it up and switching tapes.

CaptM

EDIT: -- interesting, Studio X... Interesting...

I guess I was wrong. I never occured to me that someone would burn a DVD of a project that way.

Does this mean, you had a 2 hour video with no chapter markers?

If you use MPEG Streamclip, you should be able to DEMUX the video and audio into a mpeg2 and aiff or ac3 files.

Drop those into DVDSP and do your simple edits.

x

It is always quicker to redigitize than to jump through hoops.

This may not help you at this instant, but...

Something I always encourge with new editors:
- Use unique Reel names (it is not that hard to type a few characters)
- do not capture "uncontrolled" if you can help it, i.e. have timecode to reference
- never think you will never need to go back into a project and reconstruct it
- if you have to redigitize, just do it. All the time spent researching a solution - you could have been finished

Form good habits.

Good luck.

Dave

G5 quad 2.5 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Xserver RAID, FCP, Kona LHe

Another work-around might be to play your wedding DVD in a regular DVD player and hook up your DVD recorder and re-record it onto a new master. Then you can manually cut out the unrendered clip. The audio might sound chopped but it's probably better than a red screen with the blips!

Crude, but fast and effective.

iMac Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

What about Cinematize: http://www.miraizon.com/ ?