Need Help: Is it possible to import footage from dvd, & VHS into fcpx?

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Vince27

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hi - & thank you in advance for your help -

a potential client wants me to do a huge editing project, but all of his footage is on dvds & VHS tapes - how do you import footage from dvds, & VHS tape??

i surfed around looking for answers, but can't seem to find any... there must be a way to get this footage into fcpx... no?

thank you!
 
for the vhs part of the question, you can get a vhs player, or a vhs deck and a capture card or interface from blackmagicdesign.com or aja.com.

as for the dvd part, that's a touchy subject and somewhat related to piracy. i don't think you would get any instructions on this forum, and it's not related to fcpx.
 
You can also go cheaper. get Elagato EyeTV or something of that sort, it will give you RCA inputs via USB. Like $100. Hook up to your VCR to your Mac that way, use their software to capture, then use something free like MPEG stream clip to convert to ProRes, then edit in FCPX
 
hi - your mis-understanding about the dvd footage, it's the guys personal home movie footage (stored on dvds) - so I need to figure out how to get the footage from the dvds into fcpx so i can edit the footage for him...

I used to work on Pinnacle, & this was very simple to do, all you needed to do was put the dvd in, & then import the dvd footage right in, but it appears you can't do this with fcpx - so I'm just trying to figure out how people are importing footage that is stored on dvds... there must be a way -
 
i understood the first post, but the answer could be used on any dvd, for any purpose including piracy. that's why it's a touchy subject somewhat related to piracy. good luck using google.
 
Put the dvd in.

Start the (free) Mpeg Streamclip, open the dvd there.

Export to Quicktime - Use for instance Prores setting. Voila.

About the VHS: as been said: you will need a capture card from Aja or black Magic (or Matrox?) and an application that can use the device to capture. Or you could go from a VHS deck to an some older DV-camera that has composite input or something, and use it to first capture to DV, and then connect the DV-camera to your computer and capture straight in FCP X. But the first way is easier though.
 
Well, if you have a miniDV cam you can connect a dvd player and a vhs player (there was a home combo unit on sale some years ago) to the cam and capture as it was a dv material. That is how I do it with my dvx100a
 
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