[MacDV] Re: Importing Widescreen MP4

[sb]

Ah, I'd forgotten that FCE doesn't come with the mpeg2 license.

Maybe you should think of it in terms of being paid an hourly wage.
$20 instead of all the xtra work and quality loss of using other tools?
Also, you said "a client wants..."
can't you charge the client the $20?

  regards,

  sb



On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Steve Robertson wrote:

> 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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