Re: AVID Importing AVI clip from DVD

One warning, however. Not all miniDV (or Digital-8) cameras will do this.

As proof: I have a Sony miniDV which will, and a Canon which won't.

Also, in Europe many camcorders have the analog input disabled, though some can be hacked to do it.

However, I agree with Mr O'Moose :-) that if it works on your setup, it's a great way to convert.

HTH,
Gino

On 10/11/2005, Anon O'Moose managed to type: 
You're working too hard on this.  Plug your DVD player into a miniDV
camera set to VCR mode.  Capture via firewire and tell Avid this is
not a tape deck capture or else it will error out telling you you have
no tape or machine control.

Play the DVD, capture onto HD as DV25 and save yourself the VOB to AVI
issues.  Besides, VOB and that giant AVI file are going to take up a
significant chunk of HD space and, in the end it won't really look
much better than a straight capture anyway.  You can make it even
better capturing via component inputs through a Mojo, etc.

Unless you get VDub and all your settings perfect, the DVD playout
through a real deck or camera is the best way to go.

Sean

On 27 Sep 2005 05:37:20 -0700, "Peter Verhooven" <usenet4me@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Odds are that the original DVD was created using AC3 audio which Avid (like
most NLEs) won't natively import.  I know tools exist to do this so I'd
suggest doing a search on www.videohelp.com for a ripper that will work in
this situation.

Mike 

Well for now I found VirtualDubMpeg2 which seems to work.  But yes I do
have to save the sound separately as a .wav and import that also into
Avid and mix in the audio.  Hopefully I won't have sync problems. I
haven't tried yet.  If I do is there yet another application to help
with the syncronization?  Oh one other annoying thing is that the audio
comes in very low so I had to bring into Audacity and increase the
volume.  That's is a major hassle but that's all I have for now.



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