Andrew Harrison Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hello fellow Logic users, I've just been offered a scoring job, and the production company is sending me the footage on a DVD. I wanted to know how I go about creating a QT movie so that I can import it into Logic. I've been told that MPEG Streamclip is a good software package. Can anyone confirm this please? And if there are any standard format spec's that I should be aware, I'd love to hear about those too! Am I also right in saying that I don't need to 'rip' a DVD if it is not encrypted? I just need to get a program that can 'convert' the video - ie, these are two separate procedures? Any help most appreciated! Cheers ANDREW HARRISON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fader8 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 the production company is sending me the footage on a DVD. I wanted to know how I go about creating a QT movie so that I can import it into Logic. That's very unusual. For a production co to bother to author a DVD just to send you the clips seems unlikely. But then, maybe someone has a boat payment overdue and needed to bill something! Anyway, that's not good and is asking for trouble. You really need full rate clips in DV or MOV format with BITC. Can you ask them to send something more appropriate? Or maybe that is what they're sending on the DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Harrison Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hello Fader8, Thanks for your comments. Pardon my I don't know what BITC is, but I have previously worked a lot with QT movies when scoring to picture. I've never had problems in the past. I'm pretty sure that they have all been in .mov format too. Can you give me any tips at all when converting video's in such a way? Do you use MPEG Streamclip at all? Cheers Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fader8 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I have previously worked a lot with QT movies when scoring to picture. I've never had problems in the past. I'm sure you haven't. But, your post implies that you believe the DVD you're receiving is authored to play in a DVD video player. Are you certain this is the case? If so, then converting that stream to a mov etc., could introduce timing errors that could manifest over a few minutes of play time. I personally wouldn't trust my work to any software that performs this conversion unless there was some guarantee that the conversion could be made with total accuracy, and I'm not even sure that's possible. I could be wrong. You may want to contact these guys and ask them exactly what it is they're sending on that DVD. Maybe it is just a plain vanilla data DVD with quicktime files on it. BITC is burned in time code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsilbers Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 streamclip is good. use it. you wont run into problems. handbrake on the other hand.... do not use handbrake. if it has burn in time code then measure it against logics time code and use the frame rate it suposed to be and if it doensnt line up then its something wrong when they made the DVD, thus, ask for a QT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Harrison Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 Thanks for the replies, guys. On the question of time code, I'm assuming that if the movie has bitc, then logic can automatically sync to this? It will detect it without me indicating to do it?? Much thanks, ANDREW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fader8 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I'm assuming that if the movie has bitc, then logic can automatically sync to this? It will detect it without me indicating to do it?? No. It is purely a visual reference. As long as the BITC is done in a time code format that Logic supports, you'll be able to verify that the timing/duration is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modigliano Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hello fellow Logic users, I've just been offered a scoring job, and the production company is sending me the footage on a DVD. I wanted to know how I go about creating a QT movie so that I can import it into Logic. I've been told that MPEG Streamclip is a good software package. Can anyone confirm this please? And if there are any standard format spec's that I should be aware, I'd love to hear about those too! Am I also right in saying that I don't need to 'rip' a DVD if it is not encrypted? I just need to get a program that can 'convert' the video - ie, these are two separate procedures? Hello Andrew, I used once, " Cinematize " to extract a quicktime movie( from a DVD not encrypted ), and I was happy with it. The standart version is about 60 dollars. I know that there is Cinematize 2 and Cinematize pro now, and you can try a free 15 days trial version. Be sure that your DVD is not encrypted, otherwise it just won't work http://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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