[MacDV] Re: Importing Widescreen MP4

[sb]

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.