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cosmicviolet.livejournal.com

Hello, I have a few questions about the best way to decrypt and rip DVDs. I've been ripping DVDs for years, but only to back up discs, not to use the footage in vidding. I used to use DVD Decrypter to rip the discs to VOBs, encode them as mp4 and then move the big VOB files to my external drive in case I needed them again. But DVD Decrypter is pretty old now and can't crack the copy protection on a lot of the newer discs, so I started looking for a replacement, but it doesn't look like there is a free option out there that is as good. Then I discovered that with a little tweaking, I could rip the discs straight through Handbrake as mp4s and skip the step of having to decrypt and then re-encode. Yay! But I want to create the best footage possible for vids, and according to what I've read, I should be making VOB files and then saving them as DV in MPEG Streamclip. So what I'm wondering is, if I'm converting them to DV anyway, couldn't I just use the mp4 files I made with Handbrake, or would there be a huge quality loss in doing that? I will make VOB files if absolutely necessary, but I'd prefer not to. Also, if anyone can recommend a good decrypter that's more updated than DVD Decrypter, that would be great. I'm a fairly tech-savvy person, but new to vidding techniques, and the amount of stuff you need to know seems a bit overwhelming. Thanks!

alba17.livejournal.com

I hope someone can help me with this. I've searched and searched for answers but I'm not coming up with an obvious solution. For the first time, I'm trying to vid using the digital download that comes with commercial DVDs and Blu-rays. I'm making a Captain America vid with clips from both movies. I converted the files to .mov (I use Final Cut Express) and made clips with MPEG Streamclip. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to handle the weird frame size for the second movie (from Blu-Ray). It's 1280 x 532. I converted the Blu-Ray clips to 720 x 480, the size of the first movie, but they're still a different size from the first movie when I put them into FCE. When converted, they take up the whole frame, while the Cap 1 clips are letterboxed. In the past, when I've had different size sources, I just manually adjusted the frame in the Canvas and it wasn't a big deal, but I can't seem to do that with this. If I scale the Cap 1 clips up, it cuts off too much material and I just don't see how it would work.

I guess I have two basic problems:

1) How can I make the two sources match in frame size?

2) How do you handle Blu-Ray digital files with this weird frame size? Even I were making a vid with just Cap 2 clips, the natural size is so short and wide. It only takes up the middle third of the screen. The other weird thing is when I check the size of these clips in Quicktime, it says it's 720 x 480, even though I exported them to an HD frame size.

I'm so confused and frustrated.

cosmic-llin.livejournal.com

Does anyone know why MPEG Streamclip might have suddenly stopped opening avis on my Windows laptop? I recently did a lot of clipping with it and it worked great, went back a couple of weeks later and suddenly those same files come out as audio only. I've tried a bunch of different codec packs and nothing seems to help.

Has this happened to anyone else? Any suggestions of alternative clipping software that's good with avis?

fifmeister.livejournal.com

So, this has been my weekend. On Friday, I finished the vid I've been working on for the past couple of months. I exported it out of iMovie in DV format and then transferred it to MPEG Streamclip and exported it from there in MP4 and MOV formats. Problem was, the smallest file size I could get while still keeping the quality high was 97 MB. (Erk!) The vid is a little over four minutes long, and the frame size is 854 x 480, which may be part of the problem--I couldn't figure out how to downsize it in MPEG Streamclip without destroying the aspect ratio.

I know I've downloaded plenty of fanvids in the past that were great quality, comparable length to mine, and yet had file sizes of only 20-40 MB. So on Saturday, I spent practically the entire afternoon scouring tutorials, LJ vid communities, and pretty much any other place I could find that might help me figure out how to compress my vid.

During my search, I saw ffmpegX favorably mentioned a number of times, so I downloaded it and gave it a try (actually, many tries). Using that program, I was able to compress the vid to about 37 MB, but the vid ended up so dark I could barely see what was going on. None of the tutorials or posts I saw about ffmpegX mentioned this problem, so I'm at a loss as to how to fix it.

I should mention that I actually couldn't get ffmpegX properly installed--I located all the different components, but when I tried to install, I got this error message: ##sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file. I was still able to use the program (to my surprise), but I'm wondering if the darkness issue might have something to do with those missing components that apparently didn't get installed.

So, all that to say, my question is: can anybody help me figure out how to use ffmpegX to get my vid compressed while still keeping it nice and bright, or alternatively, can anyone tell me how to export it out of iMovie or MPEG Streamclip without ending up with a huge file size? Any help would be appreciated, because I'm still obviously very new at this and it's driving me nuts.

Sorry for the tl;dr. :(

giandujakiss.livejournal.com

Hi there. I'm using Windows XP and Adobe Premiere, and I like to use .mov files as my source.

My computer died on me and I'm currently trying to replace all my vidding software on my new computer, but I'm having trouble with MPEG Streamclip.

On my old computer, I had MPEG streamclip, and QT Pro, and I had no trouble opening MPEG-2 files in MPEG Streamclip and then converting them to .mov files.

On my new computer, I downloaded MPEG Streamclip and installed QT Pro, and then I bought the MPEG-2 plugin. (On my old computer, I had an earlier version of QT where you didn't need a plug-in - buying Pro was sufficient.) But now, although I can open MPEG-2 files with MPEG Streamclip, the program crashes whenever I try to edit them - like, when I try to export to .mov, or when I try to demux. The program seems to work for other kinds of files, though, so the problem may just be MPEG-2.

I've tried using an earlier version of QT - the earliest I could find was 7.1.5 - but no luck. MPEG Streamclip also doesn't work if I use QT Alternative.

Anyone have any ideas? Or, alternatively, another program that can edit MPEG-2 and that I can use to convert files to .mov?

Thanks!

alba17.livejournal.com

I can't import a clip into IMovieHD. My previous vids (not many - I'm a newbie) were done on IMovie6, which always imported clips, eventually. Normally I import .mov files with DV/DVCPRO compression from MPEG Streamclip. This clip, I've changed into different compressions, into .avi and .dv, and it won't import any of them. IMovie6 WILL import it, but I want to use IMovieHD since I discovered it has more features, most importantly audiowave. I've imported other clips from the same VOB file (ripped DVD) with no problem. The clip is short. This is driving me crazy and I have no idea what to do!

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Entries tagged with software: mpegstreamclip

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