DVD Capture

I'm updating my reel and alot of my projects have already been mastered to DVD and deleted from my computer. In the past I have capture the dvd through my DV deck and captured the dvd. Is there software that enables just putting the disk in the computer and capturing straight from disc. These disks are not Protected, and are copyrighted through me.

NICE ONE!!! I was just going to ask that same question! Didn't know about this one but it works fine!!!
thanks a million
Alex

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  • One Step DVD Capture Video TIme

    I've just recently run into a problem with One Step DVD and would like to know if anyone else has had the same issue. I normally don't use One Step DVD but my father uses it because it requires little if any computer skills when it comes to iMovie or iDVD.
    He recently came to me with a problem that has cropped up with the One Step option. When he goes to use it the the very first step in the process is capturing the Video from the camera. The camera rewinds the tape as is the norm and then the computer starts to capture the video with no problem. The problem is with the capture time/available time that shows up on the screen. For some reason the available time consistantly shows approximately nine minutes when it is a full hour long tape. I've tried finding if there is some setting that is throwing it off in the preferences and can't seem to find anything related to it. I've also tried dumping the preferences with no result. I've also tried a number of different video tapes with no change. Recently I took it home and tried it on my system where it gave me a available capture time of 17 minutes even though there is an hour of footage. Today I took MY video camera up to my folks house and hooked it up and gave it a shot and of course it gave me an available capture time of 9 minutes. So I'm at a loss here folks. Any help would be appreciated. I personally think it's the prog but I'm open to suggestions. Below are the cameras and systems I have tried this on. Remember I've tried both cameras with each computer with the result of the available capture time not matching the amount of footage on the tape.
    My Father's setup
    Mac Mini 1.6 Ghz
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    My Setup
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    2.5 Gb ram
    OS 10.4.8
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    Hi Wayne,
    I honestly have no explanation why iDVD / OneStep is showing only 17 mins. left of capture unless you don't have enough available HD space to capture to.
    3 suggestions only:
    1. Make certain you have plenty of available HD space for this process. I recommend no less than 20GB of available HD space for each hour of video.
    2. Before launching iDVD/OneStep, drag and drop the plist for iDVD to the trash. Looks like this:
    com.apple.iDVD.plist
    3. After trashing the plist for iDVD, connect your mindv camcorder via firewire and relaunch iDVD while the camera is powered on. In most cases, iLife apps will default to the correct settings on its own (provided your mac sees the connection under system profiler).
    Good luck & hope this helps
    SDMacuser

  • DVD capturing - What setting on Easy Setup?

    Hello,
    I'm caputuring video from my DVD player which is : connected RCA to a Canopus converter box : out firewire and into the Macbook.
    When I capture the video, I get the message saying "Audio/Video rate may not match sample..." after I'm finished capturing.
    I have no idea which setting in Easy Setup to choose from.
    It is currently set at: DV - NTSC 32 kHz
    Any suggestions?

    If you are capturing via a box like the Canopus ADVC-110 (any model, actually), you should use the DV NTSC DV Converter easy setup. (Assuming you're in the US, that is.) Select this easy setup BEFORE you create a new sequence and/or try to capture anything from the Canopus. Also make sure that the Canopus box itself is set for NTSC, not PAL.
    You should NOT use the DV NTSC 32KHz easy setup.

  • Problem with dvd capture Prem Elem 10 Trial version

    When I capture video from a dvd, it only captures some files, not all using the Trial version. 40% of video did not capture. Why does this happem?

    With a DVD-Video, you are only concerned with Importing the VOB files, which contain the spanned MPEG-2 Video and Audio. This ARTICLE goes into much more detail, and also lists some cases, where Import will not function properly.
    Where did this DVD come from, and what software/hardware was used to produce it?
    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • Dvd capture - Dvd home movies captured to HD

    HI, I have several home that was from old vhs tapes. A while back I captured them and burned them to dvd as movies.
    Now I would like to take these DVD's and burn them on a hard drive. My feeling is I will get a 500 gig hard drive and burn all of the home movies on the drive. Seems like a better soloution then saving them to DVD.
    So my question is how do I play the dvd into my computer and the save it on a hard drive for later viewing?

    This is a suggestion posted by AppleMan, who seems quite knowledgeable regarding iMovie 9:
    +I have found I get the best results when I use MPEG Streamclip (which is free). You also have to install the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component which costs about $20. Once you install the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component, you don't have to interact with it, but MPEG Streamclip needs it.+
    +Insert your DVD in your drive. If DVD player runs automatically, shut it down. You should see your DVD as an icon on the desktop. Open it is a finder winder. You should see a folder which has VOB files.+
    +Open MPEG Streamclip and drag these VOB files into Streamclip. If it offers to fix timecode breaks, say yes. You can do the VOB files one by one if you want to deal with shorter clips. Or, you can drag all the VOB files at once and create one long clip, or use streamclip to separate them into smaller clips.+
    +In Streamclip, select File/Export using Quicktime and choose Apple Intermediate Codec. You may want to check "Deinterlace" in this step. Try deinterlacing and see if you like it. It depends on your final target media as to whether this will help.+
    +Now you should have MOV files in Apple Intermediate Codec which can be imported into iMovie.+
    +If you want, you can create a folder under iMovie Events and export these clips from MPEG Streamclip directly to that folder. The next time you open iMovie, it will generate thumbnails.+
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  • DVD Capture Using AJA via HDMI cable?

    Has anyone captured footage off a DVD from a DVD player via an HDMI cable into an AJA io HD? Nothing seems to be happening on mine when I try and capture in FCP. I need to upscale the footage to Pro Res 422. Is there a compatibility issue between my DVD player and the AJA?

    HDMI has the ability to interfere with the recording of any encrypted source. The player you are using might be set (by the manufacturer) to tell HDMI to block the recording of anything.
    MPEG Streamclip can be used to convert any non-encrypted material.
    Message was edited by: Shawn Birmingham
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  • DVD Capture Capabilities

    Can I use the DVD player built into my iMac to capture excerpts from movies? I'd like to create a little spoof of trailers. If not, I have a Sony DVD Player/Recorder and VHS Player/Recorder that I've used with ADVC-300 to convert analog to digital. I tried to use that but the images are way too dark to see. Suggestions? I've only been using an iMac about a year so keep my instructions simple
    thanks.

    Betting these movies are copy protected. That's why they appear dark coming in through the Canopus.
    And you don't want to mess around with copywrite busting software. Do you?

  • DVD Capture or screen capture

    We are trying to capture a car chase from an indenpendent format. Is there a way to capture the video from the computer screen or DVD when it is playing

    For video screen capture, Camtasia gets high marks. There are a couple of articles on working with the TechSmith CODEC's in PrPro. Jeff Bellune contributed to most of those. This ARTICLE, though a bit long in the tooth now, might also have some good tips.
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    Hunt

  • Dvd capture to final cut

    how do i capture from the dvd player to final cut?
    G5 Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    To use footage from a non-copyright DVD-Video you have two basic options:
    1. Software - use a program such as DVDxDV or Cinematize to convert the disc's VOB contents into an editable format for importing into FCP.
    2. Hardware - connect a DVD player's outputs to your DV device's inputs then capture in FCP as you would any other non-controllable source.
    Keep in mind that DVD-Video footage is highly compressed so quality-wise, you'd be better off capturing from the original source tapes.
    -DH

  • DVD Capture to make new DVD

    Hi all,
    I had the local TV station put the morning show on DVD for me that had interview clips of our Junior Achievement company. I would like to be able to cut those clips and burn to another DVD for the kids. What I got was a Video TS file.
    Is there an easy app out there that I can do this with?
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    Colin--
    If you are just trying to make a copy of the original disc (with permission of course), do the following:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
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  • Mpeg2 to capture to mp4 imovie to DVD

    I just purchased a VHS capture software to archive my old home movies. The software (roxio easy vhs to dvd) captures the video in mpeg2 for burning to DVD. it has the option to import to iMovie, which in essence just converts the file to MP4. Am I correct in assuming that in order to burn to DVD (in any program) that my new file will have to be converted back to mpeg2 to create the VOBs? I plan on converting the videos myself to mp4 via Handbrake before importing to iMovie. Am I better off just not importing to imovie at all and just burning the mpeg2s directly to DVD?
    Any advice on how to go about this process?

    Hi
    I don't think that You can go directly from .mpeg2 to DVD as there is more than encoding to this.
    A DVD made on DeskTop/Finder will be a Data-DVD. To get a Playable DVD one has to do a Video-DVD and then You need it structured as this and the .mpeg2 code on the DVD is not (If I understands it right) exactly as the .mpeg2 You get from Your converter.
    If Your converter can send directly to iMovie - then I would use iMovie HD6 and from this Save and from within iDVD import this movie project = NO Quality loss this way. Via iMovie'08 to 11 there is a significant loss due to not handling interlaced video OK.
    Still if iM'08 to 11 is the only possibility - Then here do not Share to iDVD - BUT - Share to Media Browser and as Large and in iDVD import from Media button / Movie - and here drag and drop Your movie into the Menu window in iDVD. Now iDVD will render instead of iMovie - and does this so much better.
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  • I am trying to make a DVD of my old home movie with a new iMac

    I have been un-sucessful at creating a DVD of some older 8mm tapes.
    I pick-up the Roxio VHS to DVD capture software.
    I connected my Sony Video 8 VCR and captured the 120 min Video.
    I am not sure what to do next.
    Roxio captured the video, but put it in Quicktime format (.MOV)
    Should I import the file into iMovie?
    Should I import it into file conversion software?
    Do I need a burner Software?
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Carl
    [email protected]

    So if the video is now in a .mov file, yes, you can import it into iMovie to edit if you'd like, add titles, or whatever. When finished, please use the export using Quicktime function under Share in file menu and use the highest quality settings you can under Options (depending on the size of your video - is it widescreen (probably not coming from VHS), etc. - you may need to experiment for the best settings. The other options in Share are not as customizable. These are what I use (but that is with video shot in full HD):
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    Edit: is yours one of the brand new iMacs? If so, you don't have a Superdrive/optical drive built in, so you'll need an external burner.

  • How to capture HD in CS4?

    Before I ask my question, I'm going to apologize in advance for being a ignorant, uninformed Forum member.  So, that being said, please don't flame me for asking such basic questions and not already knowing about HD. 
    I dumped my old DVStorm card back when Canopus was bought by Grass Valley and "they" stopped support for Premiere drivers and started pushing their editing software.  Since I shoot in SD, I didn't see the need to purchase another capture card like Matrox, if I could use a standard IE1394 connection with my JVC DV deck to capture my SD DV footage from DVmini tapes.   Alas .... now HD is really cranking up and my last camera purchase is HD capable.  So.... here goes the questions...
    Do you have to have a HDMI input into your computer to 'capture' HD?  [I shot some HD (1080i) test footage with my Sony and tried to import it into PPCS4.   Since I know my JVC DV deck won't read HD, I hooked up my Sony cam via a DV (IE1394) cable.   Although PP will let me control my camera in VCR mode (fast forward, rewind, etc.) it won't 'capture' the HD footage.   If I set my camera to 'convert' the HD footage to DV widescreen, PP will allow me to capture the footage, but if I'm going to have to 'convert' HD to DV widescreen, why not just shoot it in DV widescreen?]
    Am i just doing something wrong when I try to capute HD footage in CS4?  I created a new HD/1080i project, then use PPCS4 capture.
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    Thanks,
    jd

    Personally, I would suspect the problem is your system and hard drives are not fast enough to capture HD.
    SD to DVD capture daterate requirement is about 7 Mbytes per second, which most consumer level computers can JUST handle.
    Depending on resolution, framerate, and capture card, HD requires a bare bare minimum of 15 Mb/sec to as much as 300 Mb/sec
    Any computer less than a workstation is normally not capable of handling even the bare minimum, unless, you install 2 identical hard drives connected a RAID controller, which will increase the datarate by at least 50-60 % or more depending on your computer and the controller you get, and which hard drives you get. The black Western Digital is the best on the market for this, and quite affordable, as are RAID controllers for them.
    You're lucky you could not even attempt to capture HD with what you have because that could very probably have caused your capturing hard drive in to safe slow mode that you can never recover it from, you can only hope to get whatever files off it that you absolutely have to save, and then toss that hard drive on the scrap heap.
    steve

  • DVD to MP4 or M4V

    Been searching discussions for information on converting DVD's to either MP4 or M4V format. About the only free source I can find is HandBrake. Is that the best one?

    This is a far shot but depending upon who you had do your original transfer from film your best bet would be to get the original pre-DVD capture from them (they may no longer have it). Even compressing to DVD is using a lossy process vs. original raw format (which will be huge files). I don't do much video work but we recently had a home DVD re-edited by somebody and from what I understand he just converted it all back to Quicktime format before re-encoding it a second time to DVD, vs. editing the original mpeg2 VOBs. I compared sections from the two versions and maybe I would have noticed more difference if it hasn't been from a 1980s videocamera originally.
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  • DVD wont be recognised on iMac

    I was given a happy snap holiday dvd, It plays on my sony dvd Player and looks great on the TV. I need to copy it and found that my iMac cannot recognise the disk. I think it has not been finalised. Can I play it though my dvd player, connected somehow to my iMac, download it to the hard drive then with iMovie burn it onto a dvd that will play on a computer ????

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