One good use for a PC

Found one good use for my vaio laptop.
I had a problem that went like this:
Adventures in Sony Mini DVD land....
Original Message ( Posted Oct 11, 05 7:49 am )
OK...
I've read & digested all the good advice 'round here regarding getting DVD into FCE.
SCENE 1, Act 1:
Customer gives me Sony Mini DVD's recorded on an NTSC cam, and wants an edit deleiverd in DVD NTSC. I live in a PAL country. And I own a cheap camera that doesn't appear to have any kind of NTSC playback or recording option. I use this to digitize. So recording the analogue output of my DVD player is out.
Paid my money and got DVDxDV..
YAY! working well EXCEPT!!!......
SCENE 2: ...these DVD's are dual sided. the contents of side 1 show up as what I assume are chapters. These I converted to NTSC for Final Cut and everything is rosy. However the final chapter thingy seems to be an fast forward silent montage of the contents of side 2 of the disc.
The other side of the disc placed upwards in the DVD tray gives me no joy in either DVDxDV or in Macs DVD player. The superdrive won't touch it.. Both sides play on my domestic player.
Anyone got any experience/advice/ideas/condolences to share?
Tearing my hair out, and if you've seen my picture (think Yoda but pink) you'll understand why that can't be a good thing...
Pete
Then..
UPDATE:
the superfast forward montage thing is stills captured to the disc.
I used disc utulity to make a new disc image (.cdr) which has a ts_video folder and a DCIM folder which has stills in it.
No idea of whether or not I'm getting anything from side two in amongst all those chaptery thingos I converted.
Now I have a Video TS folder I might try opening THAT with DVDxDV.....
+ + + + +
Well no joy with side 2 till I had this flash...
Sony Laptop, sony proprietary stupid format. Maybe if I...
Then bingo! The vaio recognized the files, I copied them to a cdr, and i carried the disc over to my uncooperative mac.
So the whole thing is laid out here for anyone who ever gets lumped with this kid of edit job.
BTW Google was totally useless on this topic (where the dual sided version of these dumb sony 8cm DVD's was concerned)
So, as it turns out, this info could be worth somethin'...to someone...

Thanks for the feedback Master Y.
PCs do come in handy. I use one every day for various duties.
I still love my Mac, even thoug hit's done quite a few laps.
Al

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