DVD-Video disk copy

My sister-in-law has 16 VHS tapes (copied from Super-8, I believe) dating back to 2000 with family footage.
Using a Samsumg combo-deck to save the footage while I am visiting. The tapes dub to MPEG-II (according to spec sheet) just filne and the created DVDs play in the DVD player.
But I want to copy those DVDs single-shot using MBP-style software so she does not have to re-play all 16 tapes (even partially filled, some) to make a set.
But their PC and my MBP do not recognie the disk as even containing material. DU does not see it as a mounted volume, and making a DU "new disk image" results in an "input error".
I tried handbrake, and MPEG stream (Klaus1 recommended) and those do not reconize the Samsung-burned disk.
Since we are getting it saved (the tape footage is degraded, clearly), we have accomplished task 1. But she is very busy and does not have housrs per day to spend hooking Firewire cables to slowly transfer play-out from the DVD to iMovie or oter movie software.

iDVD can be purchased as part of the iLife '09 or iLife '11 suites still available from many retailers including Amazon. Other options can be found listed here:
http://alternativeto.net/software/idvd/?platform=mac
Regards.

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Field order on DVD Video disk projects - cannot output ".VOB" with upper field first,,

Can anyone help ? - in Australia most DVD players (PAL) display the best video image in terms of picture quality and motion smoothness when the "VOB" files created on the DVD Video disk (for PAL), are Upper field first. I can only get "VOB" files with Lower field first from Premiere Elements 9.0.
I have spent many hours experimenting, and then 90 minutes talking to Adobe support who were very helpful - but unable to resolve the issue.
My Premiere Elements 9.0 has been updated to 9.0.1, but I am still unable to obtain VOB's with Upper field first. The resultant DVD's are not easy to watch.
(MPEG files can be created with Upper field first from the "Advanced" button - but there is no Advanced button on the Blu Ray/DVD option in the "Share" tab.)
Thanking you, Dave.

Hi Steve, Yes - the output VOB's are lower field first, this can be observed
as "fuzzy" picures when playing the resultant DVD on a DVD player - the
motion is slightly jerky as well making for a video that is rather hard to
watch for too long - like trying to read without glasses (if you need them).
The input files are 720x576 16:9 PAL - Upper field first.
I have verified that the output VOB's are lower field first, using other PC
based video players and viewing the "properties" of the file.
Also, after spending about 90 minutes on the phone to Adobe support, and
exhausting all possible variations of project settings with them - they
confirmed the VOB's are output as lower field first in PAL format and were
of the opinion that one could not output PAL Upper field first VOB's using
Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1.,
This is rather disappointing as from what I understand the Australian
standard is PAL Upper field first (720x576) 25fps. They suggested that I put
in a submission to the "Wish List", which I have done - no response yet.
Thanks, Dave.

How do I download a home DVD video disk (-R) to iMovie where I can then edit? I can download from a camera, but not from the disk.

How do I download a home DVD video disk (-R) to iMovie where I can then edit? I can download from a camera, but not from the disk.

iPhoto pulls off new videos from my iPhone 5 just fine. Does iPhoto automatically come up when you connect your iPhone? If it does, you should see your iPhone under "Devices" in iPhoto and then can select the videos to transfer (select, then Import Selected), though that should happen automatically.

DVD Video Control

I remember trying to control a DVD-video disk in MX 2004
(using something in the Goodies folder). I didn't have much luck as
the video play back was stuttering. Does anyone know if v.11 is any
better as controlling a DVD-video disk?

In April Allen Partridge published a list saying: "The
following legacy issues were all FIXED in Director 11...
FIXED ** 25. Crash is happening while tried to change
location of DVD asset to some invalid location. ** FIXED".
I guess this fix addresses just one of the problems of DVD
Event Manager from the Goodies folder.
To say the truth, I have not enough tested DVD-Video with
Director 11, and thus cannot directly answer your question. Certain
features of my project other then DVD keep away from 11.
I do not use and do not like the DVD Event Manager, as it is
restrictive and buggy (at least it was buggy with MX 2004).
Currently, it is much more effective to learn to control DVD-video
directly with lingo, tracking DVD events with DVDeventNotification
handler and using the relevant metods and properties. A good way to
learn the tricks, I think, is to read about similar events, methods
and properties in the documentation to OnStageDVD Professional
Xtra, from the Visible Light. A complimentary way would be to print
out the code of DVD Event Manager of Director.
The OnStageDVD Professional Xtra, in my experience, is more
reliable than DVD cast member of Director. However,the Xtra is for
Windows XP, NT and 2000 only (though Vista was mentioned in their
plans). And it is not for Director 11.

Copying home DVD videos, editing, and creating new DVDs

Here is the situation:
I have the 17" and this is my first Mac to own. I am computer literate with most my experience on Windows and Linux.
That being said, I am trying to edit home videos; but they are already on DVDs. I got a LiteOn DVD/VCR combo recorder for my entertainment center. I have a camcorder that uses Hi-8 media and it is only able to use S-video/composite outputs (no USB or Firewire). I am using the LiteOn recorder to archive all my videos to DVDs because it has composite inputs. The LiteON has hardly any editing capability. So I want to take the "simple" DVDs I made, copy them to my HD, edit them (to cut out junk, create better menus, and give it as nice touch), and create new DVDs to distribute to my family and to get rid of old tapes.
So in short, the process I want to do on the Mac is:
1. Copy my family home DVDs
2. Edit the video.
3. Create more "creative" DVDs for my family.
I have been looking around the website and reading posts and I don't see how to do this. I did try to create an image on disk utility, but it failed for whatever reason (maybe I am missing a step). How can I accomplish the three steps above?
Please help.
Thank you, Michael

If these are true, standard video DVDs that the drive creates, there are a number of utilities that can extract and convert the videos for use in editing applications. A couple of utilities that people have reported success with are DVDxDV, Cinematize, and MPEG Streamclip (MPEG Streamclip is freeware but requires that you have Apple's QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component), and there are no doubt others.
Once extracted, you can use iMovie to edit the clips and iDVD to burn them to a new DVD. Then you can use Disk Image or a third-party application such as Roxio's Popcorn to make additional copies.
Hope this helps.

Havind I- DVD, burned disks/movies copied onto lots of DVDs.

I made a DVD for the company I work for. They would like to make several copies and send it to other departments. They are asking all about layers, capacity and other things and speaking a foreign language!
Can a company who copy DVDs for companies just take the DVD I have made and whizz is through their machine or can i movie projects that are burnt, only be burned again from scratch rather than copied. It has chapters and all the other bits that IMovie / IDVD can use etc.
Also, some people have had difficulties playing the DVD on combi tv/dvd players and some other players. Currently use DVD/RW+ disks but having read some posts may switch to DVD- (which i hear are even worse for compatibility as many machines dont play DVD- at all!.
Help - what if they can burn it and then it doesn't work, I will look very bad!

yepp, you can use your "master" to copy as much copies you need, including all chapters etc...
using your Mac, read...
HOW TO copy previously-burned DVD-R video discs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
… and for sure, a commercial copy center can do that too... RW+ is a little exotic, but.. anyhow... (ANYone could erase your disk! it is reWritable...!)
for best compatibility, use dvd-r; + is little/not supported on older standalones; same wir -rw media.... keep away from dual layer -rw, these are just supported by the latest standalones and computer drives....

I am trying to determine the new project preset for multi-camera video shot as follows: 3 Canon camcorders, main shot is DV (tape) (720x480), b-roll is DVD (mini-disk) (720x480), additional b-roll is AVCHD (1920x1080). Film is from a wedding, DV contain

I am trying to determine the new project preset for a multi-camera video shot as follows: 3 Canon camcorders,
Main shot is DV (tape) (720x480, 29fps) - ceremony and reception
b-roll is DVD (mini-disk) (720x480, 29fps) - bride preparations
additional b-roll is AVCHD (1920x1080, 29fps) - groom preparations and misc all day ceremony and reception.
Film is from a wedding, DV contains main footage so I assume it will need to be the base. I am planning to use the preset for DV-Widescreen. Is there a better option? I'm concerned about playback as the three appear to have different PAR. I'm using Premiere Elements 10 on W8.
Ultimately this will be burned for two formats - one for a DVD that can be watched on a widescreen TV, second for a short clip trailer to go on vimeo.
(And no I won't be doing this again for a wedding that I shoot.)

VDRAVES
Please review since I am not sure how you obtained Video 3 tall when you scaled Video 3 with Constrain Proportions in effect.
Before
After
It becomes a zoomed in effect to get rid of the black borders. But, there is no tall and thin involved anywhere.
And, after the Scale increase, you can always click on the screen and move the image around a bit
(without overdoing it to get black borders again).
After and an adjust
Please let us know if you are OK with the information above.
Thank you.
ATR

How do I create staging area after having copied Apps R12.1.1 DVD to disk

Hi!
I have copied all DVDs for Apps R12 to our filer. Now I would want to create the staging area using autostage.pl, but it only stages the startCD, then it asks me to insert the DVd named "Rdbms Disk1", but the DVD is already on the filer. Giving it the path to the copied DVd on disk does not work...
I don't have access to the physical machines to mount the DVDs since the servers are in a hosted data center...
Any ideas?
Regards,
Helmut

Hi,
I never tried this before, but you may try to pass the root directory name where all the media files were copied and see if it works. If this does not help, then I believe you need to create the stage area directory from the DVD-ROM drive.
Oracle Applications Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install
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I bought win 8.1 to unstall, but my dvd player/disk wasn't recognized. I then copied it to flash drive in the ISO mode and it still wouldn't work ...any help?

I bought win 8.1 to unstall, but my dvd player/disk wasn't recognized. I then copied it to flash drive in the ISO mode and it still wouldn't work ...any help?

If you are trying to install Windows on your Mac, that way won't work.
Read the entire manual before proceeding > manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.pd f\
The Boot Camp setup assistant is located in your Applications > Utilites folder.

Old family videos on DVD-R disks

I have a new Mac iOS 10.10.2.
Cannot access/read old DVD-R disks of family videos on the Super Drive.
I may have 'Finalized' them incorrectly when they were created but I can view them on a very old cheap dvd player.
Need to access them in MAC so I can re-edit, create new and burn copies for family.
I have Roxio Toast 12 Pro and Elgato Video Capture.
I do not have Final Cut.
Is there a CODEC poor RIPPER that would read these disks ?
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Michael

I don't know how new you are to Streamclip but there are 2 DVs and the one you want is got via QuickTime as Tom said.
When you drop your DVD files onto Streamclip and go up to the File Menu you will find "Export to QuickTime" and "Export to DV".
The second one, I believe, is for iMovie but for FCE you click "Export to QuickTime" and in the window that opens you alter the "Compression" setting from "Apple Motion JPEG A" to "Apple DV-PAL" or "Apple DV/DVCPRO-NTSC" as appropriate.
You can usually leave all the other settings alone, click "Make Movie" and wait !

How do I copy a DVD-video to my iPhone using Toast 10?

I apologize if the answer to this question is already out there. I tried searching for answers without luck. I want to take a DVD-video I own and get it onto my iPhone using Toast 10. I am sure this is suppose to be simple but obviously, I can't figure it out. Yes, I read through and searched the .pdf user manual for Toast 10 as well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Patty

As long as it is your DVD that you hold any copyright and there is no encryption on it then Toast 10 will convert it.
If it is a commercial DVD that you purchased and it is encrypted then neither software mentioned here will work and the Terms of Use of this site prevent any further discussion of the topic as it is illegal to use software to break DVD encryption.

HT1152 Can I copy a video disk to a hard drive useing superdrive if so what app is needed.

I am trying to use my Superdrive with my MacBook Air to copy a DVD movie to an external hard drive ???
Can someone direct me to an appropriate app or method to achiev this.

Andynorthstar wrote:
I am trying to use my Superdrive with my MacBook Air to copy a DVD movie to an external hard drive ???
Many -- perhaps most -- commercial movie DVDs are protected against copying. Breaking this copy protection scheme is illegal in the USA, where Apple, which hosts this forum, is based. Advice on how to perform illegal acts is also illegal, so, if Apple allowed such advice on its forum, it would make itself liable to prosecution. That's one of the reasons neither Apple, nor any other major corporation (Microsoft, Sony, etc) will allow such advice on the fora they host.
When you buy a DVD, you don't actually buy the movie. You buy a licence to see the movie under certain conditions. If the licence allows you to make copies (some do), and the DVD is not copy protected -- then nothing is simpler. You just copy the VIDEO_TS folder to any location on the external drive you choose, then you view the movie with DVD Player. File > Open DVD Media…, navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder, select it, click the Choose button, then press the spacebar to start watching.

How does one copy a dvd using disk utility?

How does one copu a dvd using disk utility?

By following the instructions in the os Help menu and Disk Utility "Help."

Getting Ripped DVD Video and Audio Into Encore

Do you have previously authored DVDs that need rework? Do you want to add menus with greater impact and functionality? Do you want to add some additional program or supplemental material? Does a client want their product demo DVD to be updated to reflect the capabilities of the new and improved version, but the source files no longer exist? Using Adobe Encore DVD and a freeware utility called DVD Decrypter (DVDD), you can accomplish this quickly and easily.
Disclaimer: I do not support the illegal copying and/or distribution of copyrighted works. The authors and distributors of the software I use have made it clear that they do not support illegal copying. This guide is intended solely to assist you in ripping and copying DVD video to which you have the legal rights. Any use of this guide to infringe the copyright of someone else’s intellectual property is prohibited.
This guide is based on Adobe Encore DVD 1.5.1 and DVD Decrypter version 3.5.4.0. Let’s Begin!
Place the DVD to be ripped in your DVD drive and launch DVDD. If you have more than one drive (e.g., a DVD-ROM and a DVD burner) make sure the one with the disc is selected in the Source dropdown list in the main program window. Now we need to set up DVDD to extract video in a way that is “Encore friendly”. This is the toughest part of the whole exercise. Click on the Tools menu item and choose “Settings…”.
Settings
General Tab: You can leave these set at their defaults if you like. Personally, I specify a custom Default Destination. I put my ripped video assets all in one place anyway, and having a default destination means I have one less thing to do when I rip a DVD.
IFO Mode Tab: Make sure that “Select Main Movie PGC” and “Enable Stream Processing” are checked. “Uncheck Suspect Cells” is probably a good default safety check. If your hard disks are formatted as NTFS, set File Splitting to “None”. I leave “Copy IFO File” checked with the default sub-items checked. Make sure that “Patch M2V Timecode” is unchecked. The items in the Create Additional Files section are purely optional. The author of DVDD has been kind enough to list which programs need which files; notice that Encore DVD isn’t listed as needing any of these extra files. I do keep the “Stream Information” box checked. DVDD generates very informative file names, but I like to keep “Include PGC Number” under File Names checked. Be advised you will get some lengthy file names after DVDD is finished ripping.
Stream Processing Tab: Since we enabled stream processing in the IFO Mode tab, we need to tell DVDD how to process those streams. To save yourself time and confusion later, check the “Convert PCM to WAV” box. Earlier versions of Encore required a Demuxed audio stream and a Raw video stream. Encore 1.5.1 can accept either type of video stream (Raw or Demuxed) but it does still require a Demuxed audio stream. However, I still recommend using Raw video and Demuxed audio, if only because it seems to be somewhat faster to process in DVDD. This workflow is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of Encore.
So let’s set up the Stream Processing tab now. In the Demux box, enter “0x8? 0xA? 0xC?”. This ensures that all audio streams in the selected PGC, whether AC3, PCM or MPEG will be set to Demux. In the Raw box, enter “0xE0”. This ensures that the video from the selected PGC will be set to Raw.
Additional Notes about the Stream Processing Tab:
1. For those of you asking the question, “What the heck is a PGC?” it’s just DVD-speak for the titles in a DVD project. And I’m not talking about the opening or end credits, either; I’m talking about the titles that result, for example, from the timelines you create in an Encore DVD project. There is a subtle difference between a PGC and a VTS (title set), but that's not important right now.
2. Happily, recent versions of DVDD create a WAV file after ripping that will import directly into Encore. Versions prior to 3.2.0.0 would create a WAV file that had to be imported to, and exported from, a sound editing program like Adobe Audition, Goldwave or SoundForge before Encore would recognize it.
Events Tab: For convenience sake, I recommend setting “Set Program Mode” in the Startup section to “IFO”. That way, whenever you launch DVDD, it will look familiar to you. You may safely ignore all of the other tabs in the Settings dialog.
Ripping
1.Under the Input Tab of the main program window, select the PGC you want to rip. You can only do one at a time.
2.Switch to the Stream Processing Tab. Verify that Enable Stream Processing is checked.
3.Check or uncheck any or all of the video and audio streams that are listed. Highlight each one to verify that all audio streams are set to Demux and the video stream is set to Raw.
4.If you didn’t select Default Destination in the General Settings Tab, then you need to tell DVDD where to put the ripped files now.
5.Click on the big DVD-to-Disk icon.
6.DVDD will announce, quite loudly, when it has finished. At that point you can rename the files or import them as is into Encore.
I hope you find this guide useful and that it helps you get the most out of your investment in Adobe Encore DVD.
Guide © Jeff Bellune 2005

OK, I can't tell you what we are doing, you'll have to trust me that it's for a very good cause. I'll simplify the use case as an example. If I can do the following we'll be OK:
1) Read video/audo files from a DVD that we created
2) Open these files with the QuickTime Player, click on Export to Apple TV to create an output file.
I'd rather not do an interim conversion of the video data (like use a 3rd party app to convert to mp4 first and then read into QT, but I'm considering a conversion to DV) because that could seriously hurt the apps effectiveness. I also can't use another app (MPEG Streamclip, HandBrake, VisualHub, etc.) to do the conversion.

I asked this question before but I can't find it now. Anyway, I'm trying to import a DVD video that was made on a MAC and use it on a new iMovie project.

I asked this question before but I can't find it now. Anyway, I'm trying to import a DVD video that was made on a MAC and use it on a new iMovie project.
How do I do the importing.

If the video is already on a DVD:
You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A/quicktime-mpeg-2-playback-component-f or-mac-os-x
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
And from the TOU of these forums:
Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it. See this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3381
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

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