I have a DVD with a video on it. The format is UDF. I need to bring the video (with full resolution HD) into my iMac for editing in FCPX.
When I drag and drop this file onto the iMac I then dropped it into Audacity it is converted to a file size of 480 instead of HD which it was filmed in.
Yosemite OSX 10.105
Audacity 2.0.6
DVD info:
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
If this is a video DVD (as in the ones you would insert into the living room dvd player of yore) then the video in it is NOT HD. A DVD has 480 lines so it seems what are getting is correct, unless what you have is a data DVD on which you happened to record some video file (which might be HD).
Audacity is an audio program. How are you using it to open video files?
oops, sorry...not Audacity I meant Handbrake.
The video is shot with a Canon hfs10 video camera. The video records to the camera and SD card then burned to a DVD.
Are you saying the DVD files are not what I need to get the real HD files? Are those files on the SD card or the camera's hard drive?
Thanks for jumping in so quick to help me...
greg
What Tom said; and please post a screenshot.
When you say "then burned to a DVD", how exactly did you burn it? Which software did you use?
Though more than anything I think the screenshot showing the contents of the DVD in the Finder may be most illuminating.
DDid you read the whole page I linked? Did you download and install the MPEG-2 playback component from inside Streamclip.
THis is not HD media. Unless you want low resolution standard definition media you don't want to use anything here.
WHat's on the SD card from the camera?
greogor wrote:
It is a church, filming the Sunday service.
The camera is hard wired to a dvd burner.
LOcation is meaningless. So is the day of the week. The DVD recorder can only handle standard def and creates mpeg2 files in a VOB wrapper When the disk is finalized. If your operator did not properly close the DVD it is possible you will not be able to access the files. Depends on the recorder's software. after you unpack the files using MPEGStreamclip You can edit them into a SD project but you will be disappointed if you attempt to,scale the clips up to 1080.
THe engineering of your recording setup could be dramatically improved with some expense and an experienced AV wonk.
I agree they need an improved setup. Due to lack of funds we have to work with what we have available, Canon camcorder that is 8 yrs old.
My experience is FCP & motion graphics and standing behind TV cameras. Never handled camcorders and DVDs. We will get an AV wonk from the studio, once we get a good camera.
Thanks to everyone here for your help, I learned some about the trials and tribs of camcorders and DVD editing.
greg
Yes and here is what is on the DVD inside the VIDEO_TS folder:
I downloaded streamclip and here is what was produced after I loaded the vob files and ran the processes://
NO, that's not the way to use the application. It is not a good process.
UDF is the format of the disc; it's not a video format.
You need to rip the disc. The best way is to use MPEG Streamclip.
CCan you mount the DVD, double-click it and see what's inside? Does the camera manual tell you what gets recorded to the disc?
Yes, here is what is in the Video_VOB folder on the DVD
TThis is an HD camera recording 1080 video. I do not know what it's doing onto a DVD, the camera manual will tell, but I don't think you want to edit anything on it. Use the SD card media.
Have to head out for work now, thanks for all your help guys. I will check later on tonight to see if you have discovered what I am doing wrong.
thanks again for all your help on this mystery...
greg
HOW TO DO IT?: UDF video format convert to a format for FCPX in full resolution?
