In Need of Video Edit/Transfer Advice -- In over my head.
pechos (120 pencils) | Mon, 2005-10-24 16:02Hello,
I was hit with a task this morning that is a little out of my realm and hoping one of the video Gurus in these parts can provide some guidance. I have been provided with a DTS encoded DVD presentation disc containing various clips from movies such as Star wars, Jurassic Park, etc. The purpose of the disc is to demonstrate my clients surround sound audio/TV systems in a demo viewing room packed with speakers.
My first task is to reduce the number of clips from 12 down to 3, and to limit the length of each of the selected 3 clips to 5 minutes each. Once I have the 15 minute segment(s) laid out, they then want those 3 clips to continuouly loop, througout the rest of the disc (in order to avoid the restart delay of having the disc repeatedly starting over).
Lastly, I also need to create an additional disc that basically contains a screensaver of sorts that can be running when the presentation is not playing. I figure I can create the floating logo screensaver in Flash, but any recommendations on how to get the Flash file converted/burnt to a DVD?
My first thoughts on all this are to use Final Cut Pro, as I have had some experince with it years ago in school. Not sure though if that is the quickest solutions here (of course the thing is on an ASAP deadline as well, need you ask?) My main concerns here are that the DTS sound gets transferred with my new burn. Of course I also do not have a video card which can hang with DTS if that is worth noting. I am banking on visual cues to do my edits.
Any help would be MOST appreciated.
I am sure this is probably not that big of a deal to the seasoned editor, but for me these are pretty much uncharted waters. Thanks in advance!
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This seems to be a royal pain in the butt, although I could be wrong. Your biggest problem will be maintain the DTS mix. Although, everything else won't exactly be a walk in the park.
The DVD material must be ripped and then converted before going into Final Cut Pro. I unfortunately can't recommend any good programs, because I've never had much use for those type of programs, but with a little help from Google you should find something that works in no time. I'd recommend ripping the DVD directly into a Quicktime format (if possible) so you can then go directly into FCP. However I must caution you, I think the de-facto standard for ripper programs is Divx encased in AVI (.avi) containers, which Final Cut Pro will not handle. In this case you can get a plug-in for Quicktime (at 3ivx.com) and then convert the .avi file in Quicktime and then import the new Quicktime file into FCP.
Once in FCP, you can cut it how you like. The looping feature, I would do in DVD Studio Pro. As for the audio, that's the toughest part. I can't really see how you could maintain the mix.
Hope this helps you in some way, good luck with it.
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Hello,
Best of luck to you in this project. The hardest part I see is getting your DVD's into Final Cut Pro.
I had made a short film during college that I had burned to DVD and had somehow lost the original files. I wanted to import this film into my reel. It turned out to be a horrid project. Seems the copy-write sue happy guys in Hollywood have made it incredibly tough to do this. There might be an easy fix, but I didn't find it.
I extracted the Audio with "Audio Hijack Pro" which turned out to be pretty easy. It is $30 USD or so, and is a great program (you can also use it for recording Skype phone calls too, which is very nice for podcasting interviews).
The video capture should be much easier, but I used a program that I since have deleted and forgotten that was a royal pain in the ass. I would assume the easiest way to do this is hook the DVD up to a TV tuner, and use one of the many TiVo like hacks.
Not too much help, but hopefully got you an inch closer.