Mac assistance needed please

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

My husband has just become a Mac owner, and therefore needs to find new ways of handling his vidding files.

On his PC, he just ripped raw vob files with SmartRipper and used them directly in Vegas. He also ran AnyDVD to region crack the DVD drive, as we have both region 4 and region 1 DVDs.

Question 1 - is there a region crack for Macs?

Question 2 - for anyone here that uses Final Cut or Final Cut Express... what do you use to rip and encode your source?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Comments

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

MactheRipper is my ripper of choice. It can handle multiple regions okay. It'll just rip you straight VOB. Final Cut can handle that.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I've downloaded that one! Hopefully it'll sort out all his issues :o)

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tips! I'd hate to risk mucking up his drive - the machine cost a fortune. Most of our DVD's are region 4 so we've set his drive to that. I guess I can always rip and convert the region 1's for him on my region-cracked PC :o)

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I use MactheRipper to rip into a .vob and then MpegStreamclip to clip and convert into a .dv file. My version of FCE (1.x) can only handle .dv files.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks! I suspect his version of FCE is the same.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

VLC will play dvds region free it's better than the DVD player anyway. Mac The Ripper, Media Fork or MPEG Streamclip are good for ripping to all sorts of formats (mp4, avi, vob files).
I use iMovie to vid on my mac, it's basic but it is good.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

I did see VLC pop up when I Googled the topic, so glad to know it works well, thanks!

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

glad to see so many macheads here. don't forget mac_vidding_101 for mac questions.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

I use Handbrake to rip discs, and I've found this thread on vidding on a mac (http://sweeney32.livejournal.com/1604.html) incredibly helpful for a lot of the mechanics of mac vidding.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a fantastic tutorial, thank you!