Hey everyone,
I am currently trying to put all of my parents old home videos onto my mac so I can edit them together. however, I have run out of space on my harddrive and do not want to buy more storage. Do any of you know if it is possible to burn the files to DVD then rip them back onto your system at a later date? I have tried, but I just get the VOB files which final cut pro doesn't recognize.
Thanks for your help!
Yes.
But it has nothing to do with Final Cut.
If you want to burn the data to a DVD, do it as data, not as video. ie: burn the .dv files to the disc.
When you burn a show as video (one that will play on your DVD player) it gets highly compressed and turned into .vob files, etc.
Make sense?
If you've already made DVD Videos, it is still possible to rip them back and edit them but there is a loss of quality.
Thanks Chris, I will have to decide how to tackle this project. Not too sure what I will do.
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Alright, forgive my ignorance but I've had a mac for almost two years and have never had to do any type of video work on it. Well the time has come... what I've got is an avi clip that's about 1/2 hour long and I just want to take a short scene in it (about 30 seconds worth) and save those 30 seconds as either an avi or mpeg... preferably mpeg so is smaller and can be sent through email. Quality isn't really necessary.
I haven't got any fancy tools on this thing, just iDVD and the standard Quicktime.
Thanks
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I think the easiest way to do it is to shell out $30 and get Quicktime Pro.
Use that to do the cropping and then use a free program called MPEG Streamclip to convert the file to the format you want.
Or.... get MPEG Streamclip and convert the file to a .dv file and then import it to iMovie and crop it to the length you want. Export from iMovie and then use MPEG Streamclip to compress the file for emailing.
chris Wrote:I think the easiest way to do it is to shell out $30 and get Quicktime Pro.
Use that to do the cropping and then use a free program called MPEG Streamclip to convert the file to the format you want.
Or.... get MPEG Streamclip and convert the file to a .dv file and then import it to iMovie and crop it to the length you want. Export from iMovie and then use MPEG Streamclip to compress the file for emailing.
alright sweet, i found an app for my PC to do it in the meantime
thanks a bunch, merry christmas!