DVD to Quicktime mov

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Hi i searched the forums and all i could find until now about this topic, was that you can pull the vob files from the DVD directly into final cut. I tried it and copied one vob file to the harddisk and pulled it into FCP6 but there was no audio and no video, so it doesn´t work.

Its from a DVD that i bought and i want to use the material to practice trailer cutting.

Doesn´t it work because of the copy protection?

right now i use handbrake to convert the files into mp4 and then use quicktime to convert it to DV Pal mov, it works kinda, but it takes ages: 4 hours for 45 minutes.

So if anybody knows a better and faster way... any help is greatly appreciated.

If you think that an external converter is the only way (so to capture it directly from a DVD player) it would be great if you could propose a model.

thanks,
Marcus
 
#7 DVD into FCP

Shane's Stock Answer #7: Importing DVD footage into FCP

To start, I will state that trying to capture any DVD you bought or rented, be it a Hollywood movie or exersize video, is illegal. I will not give you any tips on how to bypass copy protection. It is there for a reason.

To capture footage from a DVD, you have a couple options.

1) Route the DVD player to your DV camera or deck via the RCA cabling. Then you can put the footage you want ontp DV tape and have the benefit of timecode in case the need to recapture comes up.

2) You can get a great application called DVDxDV (www.dvdxdv.com). This opens up the DVD and allows you to convert the video to DV/NTSC footage. And it allows you to only convert what you want by allowing you to mark in and out points. The free version puts a big watermark across the center of your footage, but if you pay $25 for the standard version, that goes away.

Or you can use MPEG Streamclip. This is free. Not as reliable, but free.
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thanks i will try those out right now. But isnt it legal to make copies of the DVDs you bought? So to do that you would also have to bypass the copyprotection.
 
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