Capturing media from DVD

Is it possible to capture video and audio media from DVD, and if so how do I do it? I am fairly new to FCP, I have experience on an AVID symphony but am acclimating myself to FCP. Any help would be appreciated.

Either of the software titles above work well ... or you can simply connect a DVD player to your DV device and set FCP device control to Non-Controllable Device, then use Capture now. Or dub the footage to a digital tape format then capture from the tape.
-DH

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Capturing files from DVD-discs

Hi
I'm having problems capturing files from an existing DVD ”.VOB”-files. The video is OK - but the audio is missing.
What can I do???
Minibikini

VOB files are specially formatted muxed (multiplexed) MPEG-2 files. Try using MPEG Streamclip (freeware) to demux and convert the DVD's VOB files into whatever format matched your FCP Sequence settings.
-DH

Trim captured media from FCP in quicktime

i was wondering if there is any benefit to trimming media in quicktime that i captured in FCP. When i captured the media i left on handles big enough to build a bike from, and i was looking at cutting down the size of the media files. Is there a way to actually "cut" out the unwanted handles in final cut, or should i do it in Quicktime 7 pro?

Well, here's the issue. FCP is an editing application. You import material, you cut it down into smaller and/or re-arranged sequences and then export it as your final-- whether that is-- back to tape, to dvd, to computer playable file or any other possible medium.
It's simply a matter of not capturing more than you need, if you're concerned that you took in way too much footage. Finish up the project, archive what you have to and delete ALL of it from your drives. And drives are cheap these days, so what the heck, get a couple more. A terrabyte costs about 1000 dollars. That's cheap. Try buying a terrabyte 15 years ago! You would have had to sell your house and your kids.

Getting Media from DVD

APE7
I am working on a project for an actor friend for his Video Resume. He has DVDs from producers of the parts he has performed. These DVDs play ok in a player or on the computer but when I use Get Media to put them in a project the audio is all out of sysc in the project. Is there something I am doing when I get Get Media? I am having this problem with two out of three of the DVDs he gave me.
Thanks.
Cheerd! Phil

Thank you for the help, it worked. I used Prism Video converter because it seemed to have a better interface than Streramclip.
I had to fool around with the settings becasue I was working too fast. It is quite clear. use the DV-AVI settings.
My client and I are very happy and I learned new skills.
Thanks Again.
Cheers! Phil

Capture from DVD?

I'm trying to edit together a reel for an actor friend of mine, and he brought me all his materials on DVD. I've only edited straight from mini dv, or gathered audio from CD. I've looked through all of my manuals, and it says nothing of capturing straight from DVD.
I am editing on my Powerbook G4, through an external hard drive, and I can import the video from the DVD, but there is no audio. I know there's a better way to do this.
Do I need to import the files into imovie and go from there?
Any help would be much appreciated.

To share with those who might also be of the same confusion, I resolved this matter as follows...
From an similar topic posted much earlier, I found the program DVDxDV online and downloaded their trial version. However, unbenounced to me, when you actually download the trial version, their insignia banner is stamped across your footage, and it is really only useful in seeing if it is compatible with your machine. In other words, to really start editing, one must BUY the program for $25.
Being as broke as I am, I tried the old fashioned way, through trial and error.
For those who are broke, I remembered what I did in film school for a project. I connected a portable DVD player, to my VTR compatible machine (which was my DVX100A camera), then connected that to my hard drive, then to my computer.
On the menu of the VCR functions (of your camera), go to AV IN/OUT Setup, and turn the DV OUT to ON. Then, in Final Cut Pro, make it an UNCONTROLLABLE DEVICE.
From there, you should see what you see on your portable dvd player screen, in your log and capture window.
Thanks for the software help, but it might be advisable for those who are editing actor reels or small pieces from DVD's to go by the linking method.

Capturing media on a laptop with only one firewire input

So, this question may or may not belong here: I have a MacBook Pro with its single Firewire port. I have an external firewire drive for my scratch disk. But how do I capture media from my tape-based Canon HV40 onto the external disk with only the one firewire port? Is there such a thing as a firewire Y-adapter (i.e. two into one) or is that even possible? I'm thinking I may have to capture one tape onto the laptop's drive, then disconnect the camera, connect the external drive, drag the files there, and finally, after all is done, let Final Cut know that the scratch disk has been changed and the media is not on the laptop drive any longer but on the external firewire drive. Suggestions welcome, please.

I realize that the slower device on a daisychain will mean that the fastest speed is limited by the speed of the slowest device
My understanding is the speed of the bus will be restricted if you have the SLOWER of the two devices connected directly to the computer. If it is: FW400>FW800>Computer, each device should connect at their normal speed.
In any case, count yourself among the lucky as Canon cams often will not work when connected on the same firewire bus with other devices.
x

Re-capturing media...

I have recently editied a wedding video with a highlights sequence. I have since exported the project and removed the captured media and render files. I need to now export just the highlights sequence again. What is the most efficient way to recapture ONLY the media I need for that one sequence? BTW I removed the capture media from the finder menu from my hard drive not the delete unused media option from within FCP.

Michael - you are exactly right - the media must be present for MM to remove the unused media.
Everything else I am reading here is a bit inaccurate to say the least. Dragging clips from the sequence to the browser will still create instances of the clips with the same media start and end times as the master clips. Hence this does not remove the unused media from the clips, and never will, no matter what you do. Understanding the difference between the media start & end and in & out is fundamental to understanding Final Cut.
stilltoe - did you test this method on a sequence in which all the clips had already been made offline before you Media Managed? Did you actually look at the media start and end times of the resulting offline master clips? Did you initiate a batch capture and see how much media it was estimating it needed to capture? In my experience, MM uses metadata from the existing media quicktimes to verify how it is creating the timecode and reel info for the resulting clips. Running Media Manager on a sequence with clips that have their media offline will not remove any unused media from the resulting clips, really.
Anyway, if the original poster still needs to recatpure and really wants to remove the unused media before capture, and really has removed the media from his system, I believe the only 2 choices are to use and EDL, which really should work pretty well, though you shouldl read up a bit on the process, or to re-log clips one at a time, which can be easily done by option-dragging timecode values from the browser to the log&capture window.
Hope this helps -
Max Average

Huge wim files with sccm 2012 capture media.

So I'm making new image of two new HP models. 850/840 G2.
Win 7 and Win8.1
Image will have only newest win updates
Newest device drivers
Problem is that when I use capture media from SCCM 2012 R2, the WIM files are around 40-50Gb. And I'm a bit lost with this and don't know what to do.
I did all the things in same way like it was with G1 models. And then the WIM size was 9-11Gb.
I checked the inside of the wim file and there was hiberfil.sys files etc that are 16Gb as the RAM on the machine is the same ammount. Ram ammount was same in the G1 models also and this didn't happen. Also winsxs folder was under windows and that was
way over 10Gb.
Also one thing that is strange is that during capture, it captures 3 volumes. Disk should only have that 350MB and the windows installation.
Anyone have had this kind of experience?

Hi
I don't know exactly how I should go with the virtual machine thing .
This is just a small part in my work that I do, so I have done it the most "fastest" way for my self.
Basically I just need 2-3 images with machine drivers and windows update installed.
If making image trough virtual machine would require me to create driver package for each model and then notice that x amount of devices still don't get installed and I would need to create installation package of those missing drivers. That is something I
don't have time for...
Also when using driver package and installation for some special drivers from their won packages it feels that it takes long. And if i have my stuff already in the WIM file, things go smoothly much faster.
But if the virtualmachine trick is somehow superior, hit me with url. Thank you!
Strange thing is that some time ago all worked fine. And I was thinking that if someone has seen this kind of problem before.
It somewhow feels that it's capturing all the drives I have attached to machine. Volyme 3 of 3. And volyme is a disk? Not a partition?
I had usb stick (sccm capture media), machine harddriver with 350mb partition and the windows partition. Also external USB disk that it should save the WIM into.
Probaply next I will test the same machine with different harddrive...

Recommended DVD-R media for DVD Studio Pro

I've just upgraded my Mac to a dual processor 2.3 GHx G5, and I've been having trouble burning DVD projects to DVD-R media from DVD Studio 3. The drive will either spit the disk out or it will go through the burn process, and the "burn successful" will pop on the screen in DVD Studio, but the DVD will be blank. It doesn't seem to be consistently doing this, so I think it may be the media I'm using, but I can't find a list of recommeded DVD-R brands.
My SuperDrive is a Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A:

Not totally. RW discs are great for proofing and personal use. It's always a good idea to have a player that can play ±RW discs as it saves you having to use ±R media...
But yeah, you might have wasted the money, they aren't that much these days though... there are plenty of worse ahhhhh situations in dvd authoring,
-jake

Trying to reinstall CS5.5 Master Collection from DVD media on Windows 7 64 bit - setup.exe fails due to msxml3.dll error PDApp message [FATAL] PIM - Failed to Create XML instance : DOMDocument40 ADXML::initWithXMLPath Error:80040154

If anyone is able to solve this they are a genius (or I am doing something very stupid!)
I am trying to reinstall CS5.5 Master Collection from DVD media on Windows 7 64 bit PC but setup.exe fails due to a msxml3.dll error.
Following a big bundle of recent Windows 7 updates, I started getting 'bad image' msxml3.dll error messages when opening any CS5.5 master collection program (Eg Premiere / Photoshop / Illustrator / Dreamweaver). Following advice on some threads here I tried uninstalling and then using the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool to clean up install, then reinstalling from my original DVD media.
Whenever I try using run setup.exe from installtion disc 1 the installing fails due to 'Missing files'. I have also tried dowloading trial versions and runing setup.exe fro mthe downloaded files but i still get the same message.
I have searched the forum and others have experienced this error but none of the solutions I have found seem to be working for me - as many seem to relate to download installations whereas I am installing from original DVD media (which worked fine before on the same PC)
These are the FATAL messages from the PDApp log
12/11/2014 15:29:27 [FATAL] PIM - Failed to Create XML instance : DOMDocument40 ADXML::initWithXMLPath Error:80040154
12/11/2014 15:29:27 [FATAL] Setup - Could not initialize ADXML object
12/11/2014 15:29:27 [FATAL] Setup - Unable to initialize. Error parsing setup.xml file
The PDApp troubleshooting seems to indicate that this is caused by error in downloads but I am getting it with both original media DVD and downloads.
I have also tried using my logon (which has admin privileges) and under our main admin account - and I get the same errors.
Is a clean install of Windows 7 + CS5.5 my only option?
Any help / info / advice / solutions very much appreciated! I have spent the last 2 days trying to sort this out and seem to be getting nowhere.
Thanks.

Thanks for the reply kglad - much appreciated.
I have already tried that option (along with downloading files) as it was one of the solutions mentioned on other threads, but that also failed.
Any other ideas?

Capture from DVD-R?

Hello,
Can I capture video from a DVD-R?

If it's a DVD-Video and it has been finalized, then you have two options for getting the footage into FCE for editing:
Option 1: This is the hardware method - connect a DVD player to a qualified DV device (DV camcorder, VTR or converter), then connect the DV device to the Mac via Firewire and use Capture Now.
Option 2: This is the software method - use a program like MPEG Streamclip or DVDxDV to convert the DVD's VOB files into an editable format that FCE can work with natively.
-DH

No Boot from DVD or USB HP Media Center

Hi, I have a HP Desktop Media Center M7370 NL. I want to install Ubuntu but it does not boot from DVD (or USB) though the boot order is CD first. It just passes the DVD and goes through to Windows 7.
Any ideas?

Jeroen63, welcome to the forum.
I suggest that you visit www.ubuntuforums.org for help with your problem. They are the experts on Ubuntu and will be able to help you. I have used Ubuntu for years, but still go to their forum when I have a problem.
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Capturing Video from a Camera that only has a USB port

I have read a number of posts from people who have been frustrated because they can not 'capture' video from a video camera that only has a USB port on it. Unfortunately, Premier wants to see a Firewire connection; otherwise, it won't connect to a camera. However, it is still very easy to import your video clips from such a camera into Premier Pro:
1. Turn on your video camera and connect it to your computer via the USB connections.
2. In Premier, go to the Media Browser.
3. In the Media Browser, you will see all the drives on your computer. Amongst those drives will be a drive that was created for your camera. (It will be identified as X: (Removable). Double click on that drive and you will see all your recorded video clips in the column just to the right.
4. Highlight any/all clips that you want to import. Then, simply drag those clips/files up into your Project Organizer (normally, in the upper left corner of the page)
That's it.
You'll probably find this method of importing your clips/files off of your camera easier than if you did have a Firewire and utilized the 'Capture' function.

And a bigger problem will be that that camera (with its card or HDD) will have to be connected, whenever one wishes to edit, and it cannot be overwritten to).
As has been mentioned, the Project file does NOT contain any Assets, with the exception of Titles created in PrPro's Titler. This ARTICLE will give a bit more background on what is in the Project file, plus a bit more.
The same sort of problem can arise if one Imports a VOB from a DVD-Video disc, without Copying the VOB's over to the HDD. First, that DVD must be inserted for each editing session, and things will be horribly slow.
Good luck,
Hunt

Capture Video from Panasonic AG-HMC40

I am having trouble capturing video from my camera - Panasonic AG-HMC40 HD camera
I keep getting a message: Capture Device Offline.
I am able to capture from iMovie and Final Cut X....
Does anyone know the correct capture settings?

You don't have to capture. You ingest.
IE: Copy files from your camera memory card onto your hard drive using the media browser.
See extract from Adobe Help below:
Import assets from file-based sources with Media Browser
You can import assets into Premiere Pro directly from tapeless media. However, it is more efficient to transfer tapeless media contents to a hard disk before importing. Also, playback performance is much better from a dedicated internal hard drive or RAID than from a camera or memory card reader.
Use the Media Browser, instead of File > Import, to import files from tapeless sources. The Media Browser assembles the relevant files into coherent clips, and does not import irrelevant non-media files sometimes found in the folders of tapeless media.
(Optional) Transfer the entire contents of one or more P2 cards, Sony Compact Flash cards, XDCAM media, XDCAM EX SxS cards, hard disk camcorders, DVDs, or AVCHD media to a hard disk. For information about transferring these media, see About transferring files.
Note: For XDCAM EX, copy the entire BPAV folder and its contents, not just one MP4 file at a time.
If the Media Browser is not already open, select Window > Media Browser. Note: You can dock or group the Media Browser like any other panel in Premiere Pro.
Browse to the folder containing the media files. The Media Browser shows a thumbnail or icon (depending on the format) and shot name for each shot in the folder. The Media Browser automatically aggregates spanned clips and shot metadata from the subfolders into single clips for any of these formats. The Media Browser shows different sets of metadata for different formats.
(Optional) To preview a shot before importing it, double-click the shot in the Media Browser. Premiere Pro plays the clip in the Source Monitor without importing it into the Project panel.
Either select File > Import From Browser, drag clips from the Media Browser into the Project panel, or drag clips from the Media Browser into a timeline.
The asset or assets are imported into the Project panel as whole clips.

Need Video Capture Card and DVD Burner Quick!

Here's my situation. I've created some movie titles in iMovie and have no way to get them from my Macintosh to my DVD/VCR to incorporate them in a tape I'm making. I need it like NOW as a lot of people are waiting for copies of the tape!
For some time I've wanted a device called a video capture card. It has the ability to play videos on your computer and you can print out images from them. What I want to do is make DVDs of my VHS home movies. I did learn you can't just walk into any local store and buy such a device; it must be ordered.
Desperation is a great motivator and finally (duh) I decided to look at a site specializing in Macintosh products, instead of studying every capture card online. Surprisingly, they offer three models: one cheap ($50-some), one at twice the price of the first, and a third at ten times the price of the second! That's quite a jump! Here's the middle one, which they claim is the best on the planet: http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~197329.asp
So, as I understand this, I somehow connect this device to my computer (Power Mac G4), hook a VCR to it, and then I can play videotapes on my computer. If I'm in a desperate hurry to burn DVDs I suppose my friend's DVD player will also connect to this device, or am I wrong in this?
Even if I am right (that a DVD player/burner will connect to this) I still don't see how that gives ME a DVD burner with which to transfer my videos to DVD! My combo player will make videos from DVDs but not the other way around! So do I have to run out and buy a DVD burner, and should it be any special kind since it will be used with a device connected to a Macintosh? I need this ASAP so thanks for any advice, or clarification to my understanding of how this process works!

Cornelia,
Lennart's links are very good and informative. But one thing you should know is that an external DVD burner will not play a DVD - it only burns them. Since you want to view the DVD and pause at a particular scene and print it, you'll need some way to view your DVD. You also need a way to convert the iMovie project with the imported VHS footage, to a burnable format. iDVD can do that, but I noticed you have OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). If you don't have iDVD you'll need to buy it from the Apple store.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70901/wo/u13Sbz1 DQJRc2kZnHbi1QKZybZA/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.0.3 or you can buy Roxio Toast 7, but toast is much more expensive. For Toast go to: http://www.roxio.com/
You also need a media player so you can view your final DVD. I did some quick research and found out that none of the free media players allows you to print - which is what you want to do. There are quite a few free media players available, like Nice player and Xine Player, but you need Panther or higher to use them. Because you're running OS X 10.2, the only free media player that you can use is VLC media player. To download a free VLC player go to: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You do need QT 6.5.2. or higher. So you may need to update your QT.
You can't print a paused image, but you can take a snap shot of the still image, then print that. Snap Shot=CommandShift4. This will allow you to select the paused picture in the screen, or if you like just a portion of that paused picture. It will save on your desktop as a picture. Double click on the Picture, then print that.
Then it sounds like after you've burned the DVD with your titles, you will need to connect a VHS recorder to a DVD player and record your DVD on to VHS tape.
Good Luck,
JAM
iMac G5 2.0 GHZ 1.5 RAM, 250 internal HD, 160 ext. HD Mac OS X (10.4.1)

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