[MacDV] Editing from DVD

Thubten Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Fri Feb 7 11:18:18 PST 2003


What about passing the analog output from the DVD Player into a DV 
camera or deck that allows the signal to be transcoded and passed 
through and out the 1394 port and into the computer as a new DV stream 
for editing in iMovie or FCE or FCP?

k

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:01  PM, Ken McNamara wrote:

> I know this is not recommended - specifically, editing from an MPEG2
> file.
>
> But, has anyone tried capturing from the analog DVD player - then
> editing and outputing that material?
>
> I don't have any intention of doing this for serious work - but I keep
> getting the question from friends who want to write there analog
> material to DVD for storage.  I've always told them you can't edit the
> result (and be satisfied with the result).
>
> Thoughts?  Experience?
> -- 
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