[X4U] Video Editing DVD help

[Nick Scalise]

On Wednesday, February 09, 2005, at 06:15AM, aashram <amar at aashram.com> wrote:

>I have dvds of family events that I want to redit.
>I want to use iMovie. What is the best way to get the footage off the DVD into iMovie to Redit
>Ideally I do want to loose much quality.

I like using the combination of MPEG StreamClip and Apple's MPEG2 component for QuickTime.

Apple's MPEG2 component gives MPEG StreamClip access to MPEG2 decoding. Then MPEG StreamClip will convert your DVD to DV.

MPEG StreamClip: Free
<http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html>

QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback Component: $20
<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/>

However, no matter how you convert, the footage you re-import to iMovie will never be as good as the original DV, as it has been compressed.

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Nick Scalise
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