Importing DVD Home Movies

Before I got my Powerbook, I burned all of my VHS home movies onto to DVDs, using a Sony DVD Recorder. Is there a way I can import these DVDs into iMovie so that I can edit and reburn them?

get for 20$ the Apple mpeg2 plugin
and for free the tool Streamclip
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml

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  • Bringing in DVD home movies into QT question

    My mini-DV tape camcorder is on the blink, so today I purchased a Panasonic mini DVD camcorder that doesn't have firewire [it has USB 2] and since my old Mac only has USB 1.1 and firewire I have a question.
    My question: I've read that QT pro can bring dvd home movies in. How does one or what does one do to bring in a DVD home movie to QT pro? My purpose for doing this in the future is to share clips from the home movies via email to family and friends [I know they will be small and compressed but family and friends still really enjoy seeing them in an email].
    Further information: my old Mac also has a [firewire connected] Lacie DVD burner that can read and burn to most any DVD format [dvd-r, dvd+r, and even can accept mini DVD's and read them]. The Panasonic mini DVD camcorder I bought today is the model number VDR-D230.

    I made and finalized my first mini dvd movie on the camera today to test it in the Lacie external drive connected to the Cube.
    Concerning the comparison between Handbrake and Streamclip. Does either allow one to record only parts of the dvd home movie on the fly and exclude other parts. From using Handbrake, I think the last time I used it, that Handbrake basically converted an entire dvd to QT (or mpeg which is readable by QT). I may be wrong about Handbrake because I can only remember using it twice. Is Streamclip better at this, meaning can Streamclip allow me to record only parts of the dvd home movie on the fly to a format that QT can recognize, or does it work in the same fashion as Handbrake when it comes to this area. Also, I should mention that the Panasonic dvd camcorder does come with software called ImageMixer 3 - but after reading about ImageMixer 3 in the manual it requires a 1ghz G4 mac, and I'm only at 450 currently (I could upgrade my cube's processor to a dual g4 (costs almost as much as buying a mini mac or better yet even a single g4 (1.8 ghz speed for $249). I probably won't go the route of ImageMixer 3 since I just bought a $400 camcorder but it was an idea that crossed my mind (until I read about it's requirements) - I am wondering if ImageMixer 3 is good software though.
    I did notice you said one can buy a plug in for QT that allows it to see dvd movies. I wonder how that works. I know with my prior mini dv tape camcorder qt would allow me to play the tape (while connected via firewire) and make a movie on the fly and could choose (as it played) when I'd click record and stop (while in qt). Does the plug in for QT for around $20 that allows it to bring in a dvd home movie allow QT to work in a similiar way? If so, for $20 it's a no brainer and I'll dish out the $20 right now.
    By the way, I'm not looking at doing in major serious video work here or looking for high quality video. My reason for doing this is to get a low quality small short clip into an email that can be viewed, amuse the parents and friends, and is small enough to email (like qt sharing did with my prior mini dv tape camcorder that went on the blink).
    As a follow up to finalizing my first mini dvd on this camcorder. I made a mistake by following the young salesman's recommendation to use the mini dvd-r dual layer disks. When I inserted it into my Lacie which I thought could read anything [and it can read and burn cd, dvd-r, dvd+r] I quickly learned it could not read a dual layer mini dvd disk. Thankfully, I have 2 dvd players connected on top of my tv [one is a dvd burner) and did a copy of the mini dual [I tested and both of them could read the mini dual - the must have been manufactured after the Lacie was]. I know this is not the best solution, since I think the mini dual was converted into an analog signal and then recorded to another dvd [but it was a workable solution to get the dvd to be recognized and pulled into my Mac]. I'll buy some mini dvd's tomorrow for the camcorder that aren't dual layer and test in the Lacie (they should work - I hope). I know it's definitely not advisable [or would work] to try to insert any mini dvd into straight into my Cube [always use the Lacie drive with mini's since it's tray loading, eh].
    p.s. I was just informed by Handbrake of this update [dunno if the update changes anyones thinking on Handbrake], but here's the link
    http://handbrake.m0k.org/

  • How do I import a home movie into I movies from a video camera when it says format not valid

    How do you import a home movie straight from your video camera to i movies when it advises format not recognised.

    iMovie
    http://www.apple.com/support/imovie
    http://www.apple.com/support/ilife

  • Pulling still pictures of of a dvd home movie

    Do I need a 3rd party software to pull still off of a dvd home movie? A friend gave me a movie dvd of her wedding and wants me to print stills from it. She lost her wedding albulm.
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    Snapz Pro X will let you make screen grabs of DVD screens as will the VLC Media Player (as has been noted here).
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  • Can I download DVD home movies into imovies?

    Can I download DVD home movies into imovie to edit and create enhanced DVDs?

    Yes.
    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://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
    (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.
    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.
    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.

  • How can i import my home movies i had put on DVD?

    Does anyone know how to import a dvd of home movies into imovie?

    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.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
    which is free, but you must also have the  Apple mpeg2 plugin :
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
    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.

  • How can I import a home movie from DVD

    I have a home movie on DVD I'd like to get in imovie...can this be done?

    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 onwards, 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.

  • 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.+
    Post back if this does not help you.

  • How do I convert my DVD home movies (NTSC format) to mpeg 4 format??

    3 yrs ago I had my home movies (super 8) onto DVDS (NTSC format.
    I would like to convert to mpeg4 so that I can import into imovie and Quicktime player 10
    I just installed Snow Leopard 10.6

    I would recommend that you convert the DVDs to Apple Intermediate Codec, then edit your movies, then share the final movie in mpeg4 (h.264). This will preserve the most quality. However, the method I will describe will also work to convert your DVD directly into MPEG4.
    1) Download and install the Apple MPEG2 QuickTime Component ($20) - available online from Apple.
    2) Download and install MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 (free).
    3) Start MPEG Streamclip
    4) Insert your DVD into your Mac. If DVD Player or Front Row starts automatically quit those.
    5) Open a Finder window. Navigate to your DVD to the Video_TS folder.
    6) Drag the .VOB files from the Video_TS folder and drop then into MPEG Streamclip.
    7) If MPEG Streamclip offers to fix timecode breaks, say yes.
    8) Use FILE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME to convert the files to Apple Intermediate Codec (or h.264 if you prefer)
    9a) Optional: You can deinterlace your footage in this step, if you like
    9b) optional: If you know the date and or time of the footage, name your file
    clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss
    (let mpeg streamclip provide the extension). This will provide metadata that iMovie will use to put the event in the right year and month.
    9c) Optional: If you don't want to make one huge clip out of your DVD, you can make smaller clips by using MPEG Streamclip. Move the cursor to the "in" point of the clip, and press i. Move the cursor to the "Out" point of the clip, and press o. Then do steps 8 through 10 and repeat until you have done this for all clips you want.
    10) Save the resulting file in a place where you can find it, like your Desktop.
    11) Open iMovie.
    12) In iMovie, choose FILE/IMPORT/From File and choose the file you saved in steps 8, 9, 10.
    13) iMovie will generate thumbnails and you can edit.

  • Import a home movie from CD

    I received an old home movie that had been burned to a CD.  How do I import that into iPhoto? Thanks.

    If the movie file is on a CD disk just drag it from the disk into the open iPhoto Library window.
    If the disk is a video DVD disk you'll have to rip the DVD disk with Handbrake to obtain a useable copy of the movie and import that into iPhoto. But only if the DVD video disk isn't copy protected.
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  • Compress dvd home movie into one vob?

    I have created a home movie in imovie and then transferred it back to my camcorder and burned it onto a dvd. There are 5 vob files containing the entire movie. Is there any software to "join" all of the parts to upload to the internet?

    ladybug-1969 wrote:
    I have created a home movie in imovie and then transferred it back to my camcorder and burned it onto a dvd. There are 5 vob files containing the entire movie.
    sure, a vob for the menu, a vob for the autostart (even when empty), a vob for the first 20min of project..
    vobs are part of the videoDVD standard, a delivery file .. no 'format' for further processing.
    plus, any re-and-back-and-forth-conversion doesn't add any quality to your video, these formats are all lossy.
    upload your iMovie (in case you use iM08/09, this is just a click away, Share).
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    but converting backwards from DVD?? is .. sorry .. nonsense.
    esp. when it is a iMovie project AND the video exist on tape!
    import tape - upload.
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  • Itunes 12 can't import shared home movie to iTunes library

    HI. I am trying to import, or add to my desktop iTunes library, a shared home movie. I have file sharing turned on with both my laptop and desktop. I can see, from my desktop, the shared home movies, and I can even play them, but I cannot find an option to import them into the desktop library. I use my desktop to sync my iPad and ultimately I want to add the movies to my iPad. How do I import a shared home movie from my laptop to desktop, not just see it and play it from sharing?

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  • How can I import my home movies (.dv) into iTunes?

    I'm getting frustrated with the lack of information about converting movies with all the recent upgrades. I have many short home movies in a variety of formats (.dv, .mov. Mp4, etc) - how in the world can I get them into iTunes (and ultimately on my iPad) so I can share them? It looks like Quicktime Pro is no more and Quicktime 10 is grayed out under all the share options? I'm at a loss - do I need to go back to the original iMovie files and save as something else??? Thanks much!
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    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.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
    which is free, but you must also have the  Apple mpeg2 plugin :
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
    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.

  • HT1347 How do I import a home movie on my computer to iTunes?

    I am trying to import a home made movie on my computer desktop into iTunes.  Any suggestions? Thanks....

    You need burn software to do so. Do you have iLife 09 or 11 installed? If so, you have iDVD which is perfect. What app did you use to edit/put together the movie?
    If you don't have iDVD, then take a look at Roxio Toast ($$) or Burn (free) or google for other apps.
    FWIW, I've never parked a home made movie in iTunes, so I have no idea if there is anything you can do with it there. My guess is you need to get it into the burn software. And, if you still have an older version of iMovie, it may still have a burn option within.

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