Original DVD material for FCP use?

How do I copy/download or prep my original content material from my DVD on to my G5 so it can be used with FCP?

If your original material is on DVD-Video, you'll be working with highly compressed files that will need to be demuxed and converted into a video format that matches your FCP Sequence settings. You can use MPEG Streamclip for that purpose.
Or you can connect a DVD player to your DV device and set FCP's Device Control to "Non-Controllable Device" then use Capture Now as you would with any other non-controllable source.
But if the files are already in an editable format on a data DVD, just copy them to your media drive then import them into FCP.
-DH

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Kind regards,
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Run the tutorials and be prepared to be frustrated and confused. it's a big application.
Play with a few simple projects.
Then you MUST do the tutorials again. They will make much more sense the second time because you now know where the menus are and understand of the basic interface language.
Look at your budget. Decide what you want to spend and what you want to learn. The APTS books are great and come with several interesting and challenging editing tasks. The second volume for FCP5, "Advanced Editing Techniques", just hit the shelves. It's fabulous but it's all about the craft of editing. It's not about how to run the application. So if you're making films and never went to school, that's the book you want.
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Mpeg Streamclip DVD settings for FCP...trying to preserve quality

I'm very new at editing, so please bear with me!
I am creating a director's reel for myself using footage on DVD. I'm ripping the DVDs with MPEG Streamclip to DV NTSC then importing to FCP and finally exporting to DVD.
My problem is--there is an egregious quality loss through this process. Basically is there a better codec than DV NTSC to use in MPEG Streamclip?
I'm having to render my clips in Final Cut which leads me to believe I'm adding an unnecessary step of compression/de-compression. Also, the DV NTSC quicktime doesn't look so bad until I put it in Final Cut...then it looks awful. Am I messing up an import setting?
Finally-- When I load my clip in final cut it loads it anamorphic and I'm having to right click my clip after I load it to the bin, search it's video settings, and de-click "anamorphic" in order to get the right aspect ratio (16:9)...am I doing something wrong there?? Is that messing with the quality?
I realize that this is a basic question, but I literally have spent 3 hours searching for an answer and haven't found one, so please forgive me if it's repetitive! And obviously I'm stuck using the DVDs...I have no option to get the uncompressed original footage. Thanks!!

razini wrote:
I'm very new at editing, so please bear with me!
No problem, we all were at one time. Welcome to the family.
razini wrote:
I'm ripping the DVDs with MPEG Streamclip to DV NTSC then importing to FCP and finally exporting to DVD.
My problem is--there is an egregious quality loss through this process. Basically is there a better codec than DV NTSC to use in MPEG Streamclip?
Shouldn't be. But transcoding form MPEG2 to DV can get messy. I use DVDxDV for unwrapping MPEG2 form DVDs.
razini wrote:
I'm having to render my clips in Final Cut which leads me to believe I'm adding an unnecessary step of compression/de-compression. Also, the DV NTSC quicktime doesn't look so bad until I put it in Final Cut...then it looks awful. Am I messing up an import setting?
You should not be rendering in FCP, this suggests your sequence is not set to be plain ol' DV.
razini wrote:
Finally-- When I load my clip in final cut it loads it anamorphic and I'm having to right click my clip after I load it to the bin, search it's video settings, and de-click "anamorphic" in order to get the right aspect ratio (16:9)...am I doing something wrong there?? Is that messing with the quality?
If your clips are not anamorphic, your sequence is set incorrectly. Start with a new sequence and make sure it is set to DV.
razini wrote:
I realize that this is a basic question, but I literally have spent 3 hours searching for an answer and haven't found one...
Yeah, video is like that.
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I intend to extract the video (no issues with copyright) via DVDxDVPro but am unsure if the DVD has been encoded in NTSC or PAL. The footage it contains is from both the States (NTSC) and South Africa (PAL) so how do I tell? I don't want to go through a standards conversion if I can help it.
I am keen to try to retain as much quality as possible (client can't provide tape) so also any thougts on the best output from DVDxDVPRo for FCP editing?
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Michael

Hi Thomas, that's it!
Thanks for this - it clearly shows the TV standard and the resolution plus 4:3 etc., so everything I needed for confirmation.
Glad I cheked because it was in Pal - thought the conversion in DVDxDVPro looked a bit ropey.
This realy baffled me - seemed so simple but couldn't find a way to tell the standard. Learn something everyday...
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Professional DVD Recorder for FCP??

Is there a pro DVD recorder/player that can be controlled like a deck (9-pin/FW or both) for input and output of Final Cut Pro? I often need to capture offline clips of sports events that are 3 to 4 hours long. I've been using Amerisoft's DVD ripper, but I have to capture the each long title of the DVD and I only need a few seconds at a time. Setting up output and doing crash records to Dbeta or similar is also quite laborsome. It would be nice to be able to control a DVD player within FCP and capture the clips like you can from a tape.
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Is there a pro DVD recorder/player that can be controlled like a deck (9-pin/FW or both) for input and output of Final Cut Pro?
No....no such thing exists.
Why are the sports events master footage on DVD?
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David,
I have seen no visible loss of quality using the DVD player on the Mac, and furthermore the capture from the GUI gives results that are very good at preventing any pixelation. In my experience, any loss has taken place in the compression to produce the DVD (video) in the first place.
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I've got some instructional dvd's that I want to take with me to university. But the only problem is i don't want to take the actual dvd's with me. I've tried using Handbrake to copy them off, but the dvd's have different tracks.
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Thanks
Chris
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Thanks

Cheers guys all sorted now.
Used disk utility to create an image and then extracted it and dragged the video_ts into dvd player.
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I have a more Pro tools background and have used Lacie USB drives in the past, but should I be looking at Ext. Firewire drives for editing video?
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i read recently that the UK was about to vote in a (for lack of a better word) legislation that would allow the "legal" copying of cd's and (more importantly) dvd's, for home use only.
i think this is a wonderful idea, and i have very strong feelings and opinions regarding this. but my question is, is there something in the works like that in the US?
i applaud the UK for their foresight in seeing that the "old" laws do not work in today's age, and would hope that the US sees the need for something like this here.

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Legislation allows you to make a back up copy of content you have purchased yourself for your own use only, I believe this applies in both the UK and the US.
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Has anyone used specific s/w for ripping DVD's to edit in FCP?
So no one ruptures a nut, we are recording to a DVD recorder for internal use video.
Handbrake? iRip?
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When LaCie told me to reformt at HFS+ 64KB they said that this was the feedback they'd received from Final Cut users. Can anyone confirm that this remains the preferred formating for FCP use, that 64KB is preferable for: "Faster manipulation of larger files or streaming video"?
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Mac OS X Disk Utility does let you set the block size, but only for RAID sets.
From the Help file:
"To optimize storage performance of a RAID set, you can set the storage block size used by the disks in the set to match the size of data stored on the set. For example, a database might store small units of data, so a small block size might be best for the RAID set. A video processing application might require fast throughput of large amounts of data, so a larger block size might be best for the set."
Options are 16k, 32k, 64k, 128k and 256k blocks.
Regular HFS+ has a 4k block size.
More information on the history, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus
Silverlining FAQ: http://www.lacie.com/uk/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10140

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