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Dante Waters · February 6th, 2006, 10:41 AM

Ok working part time at a local church...

Seems the majority of the editing is on DVD, now I have the daunting task
of ripping about 200+ dvds back to the powermac and into finalcut for edits.

Should I just use Handbrake to rip and encode?

There are also 2 Dell systems with 3gigs of ram in each.

Should I use dvdshrink on one while I edit on the powermac?

Does anyone have an alternative?

John C. Chu · February 6th, 2006, 01:01 PM

From a lay-persons perspective....

If super high, "close to original quality" isn't a big concern...you could just play the DVD's and recapture it via firewire using an analog to DV converter[or via camcorder's pass thru connection]. You can then edit right away.

Obviously a quality hit right? But would take less time as the capture will be in real time.

Otherwise, the free MPEG Streamclip software works pretty good--you just grab only the sections you want from each dvd.

February 6th, 2006, 10:41 AM	#1
Dante Waters Major Player Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NY, NY Posts: 217	dvd conversion Ok working part time at a local church... Seems the majority of the editing is on DVD, now I have the daunting task of ripping about 200+ dvds back to the powermac and into finalcut for edits. Should I just use Handbrake to rip and encode? There are also 2 Dell systems with 3gigs of ram in each. Should I use dvdshrink on one while I edit on the powermac? Does anyone have an alternative?

February 6th, 2006, 01:01 PM	#2
John C. Chu Major Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Rego Park , NYC Posts: 665	From a lay-persons perspective.... If super high, "close to original quality" isn't a big concern...you could just play the DVD's and recapture it via firewire using an analog to DV converter[or via camcorder's pass thru connection]. You can then edit right away. Obviously a quality hit right? But would take less time as the capture will be in real time. Otherwise, the free MPEG Streamclip software works pretty good--you just grab only the sections you want from each dvd.