[MacDV] Re: Importing Widescreen MP4

sb videovideo at mac.com
Mon Jul 7 11:06:26 PDT 2008


Why don't you use MPEG Streamclip, free download, to rip the DVD to  
Quicktime DV?

Then you can edit in FCE.

regards,

sb


On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:

> Hi Guys and Gals,
>
> A client wants me to do some minor editing on an existing DVD. This  
> is not a commercial, protected DVD, even though the seven minute  
> video it contains is very "cinematic" and professional. It's  
> widescreen and 24 fps.
>
> I used the latest version of Handbrake to extract the video. I used  
> the default settings, which use H.264 to create an MP4 file. This  
> extracted video looks beautiful when played using Quicktime. The  
> widescreen video exactly fills a widescreen player.
>
> Then I tried to import this MP4 into FCE. Didn't work, and the error  
> file was very cryptic. So I switched to iMovie HD. This app imported  
> the MP4, but did not recognize the widescreen format. The imported  
> file has black bars at top, bottom and right side.
>
> Does anyone know the secret to importing widescreen MP4 into a good  
> editing program and preserving the widescreen format all the way to  
> export of the edited version?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve R.



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