[MacDV] Re: Importing Widescreen MP4

[Steve Robertson]

MPEG Streamclip looks great. If I had to extract video from DVDs very  
often, I might justify spending 20 bucks on Apples MPEG 2 Playback  
Component. But I'm Scottish. I hate to pay that when I might only use  
it once!

Steve R.

On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:06 PM, sb wrote:

> 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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