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Macintosh rip,compress & burn guide
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26. March 2005 @ 07:26 |
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Why would a mac user ever want to use the POC windoze media slayer?
Play your files in quicktime or dvdplayer! Bag that windoze crap!
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mettur
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3. April 2005 @ 05:13 |
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Some one mentioned DivX before, got no response. Just wondering how good is DivX?
I am trying to put multiple movies on a single DVD-RW. I travel a lot, hate to carry multiple DVDs. I tried DVD2OneX to compress the movie to approximately half the size and quarter size of regular DVD (used 1000 or 2000 instead of 4400). But the resolution is not good, even form my 15" PowerBook.
Just starting to wonder if DivX will have better compression and may be able to give a better resolution. Any one has any comments on DivX?
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3. April 2005 @ 05:24 |
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If you are playing it on your computer why don't you try mpeg4?
Don't know about divx sorry.
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mettur
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3. April 2005 @ 06:05 |
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I realize QuickTime Pro will encode MPEG-4. Unfortunately I do not have QT-Pro. Is there any other way to create MPEG-4?
I don't mind buying QT-Pro but there is no way to try this out before I buy it. Also I hear QT-7 is coming up, Apple typically does not give free upgrade, I may aswell wait to get QT-Pro-7.
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garp
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6. April 2005 @ 01:50 |
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I backup my discs the same way as mediaguru and to get over the problem of it not fitting on a disc just go into user defined and lower it slightly say to 4272. Its what I do.Its what works. Dosen't stay as new default but it only takes seconds.
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chrishine
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6. April 2005 @ 05:14 |
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am trying to use files from TS folder to edit in FCP - video works fine (after rendering on timeline) but i cannot see any audio files in the audio TS folder. I have burned a dvd from the source TS folder so I know there is audio there somewhere - HOW CAN I ACCESS THIS AUDIO TO RE-UNITE IT WITH THE VIDEO IN FCP???
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6. April 2005 @ 05:47 |
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Final Cut does not edit VOB or M2V files. When you convert yor video from the dvd, you have to also convert the audio to a format that FCP can use.
Read your manual.
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chrishine
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6. April 2005 @ 05:53 |
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Thanks for reply - So are audio files never 'visible' in the audio TS folder after ripping? I don't see how to convert the audio files (aif for FCP) if i don't have access to them - MTR doesn't seem to give options for converting audio seperately - will i have to find another piece of software to re-rip the audio? and if so what is there??
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6. April 2005 @ 06:08 |
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I have NEVER seen an AUDIO_TS folde with anything in it. The audio files are not "hidden"...they are muxed or embedded or whatevery you want to call it, with the video files. The VOB files contain the video AND audio. Many dvd's don't even HAVE an AUDIO_TS folder.
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chrishine
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6. April 2005 @ 06:17 |
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i see - so is there anything to rip the audio seperately ? I will also check the audio forum - many thanks for your info (i'm sure i'll be back for more as i start digging into this DVD thing)
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6. April 2005 @ 06:59 |
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You can do that with MTR, just RTM. Also look into an app called OSEX. It is a little older and buggy, but rips audio only with many options.
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CArringt
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18. April 2005 @ 19:48 |
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guy's i'm a complete noob to the mac system but i just purchased a mac mini and i'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to rip dvds and store them. i have a 500gb external that i want to use as a "media server" (lack of better description). i want to be able to stick a dvd in, rip, and save in a good format that isn't going to require mass space. i've read about the mtr program and i'm wondering if that would be the best solution. if not, what? i don't care what kind of format it saves in as long as it's playable in quicken, retains all quality (film only, i don't care about menus and extras), and conserves space. any help would be greatly appreciated
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18. April 2005 @ 20:36 |
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Your best options are these three apps together:
1. MTR
2. Dvd2oneX
3. Toast
Read the mac ripping/burning guide at the top of the forum for more info. imovie will not be of any use for this, unless you intend to edit the video and spend a whole ton of time and hard drive space re-authoring your dvd.
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Fauxlimey
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22. April 2005 @ 10:06 |
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Hey, I wondered whether BUFFER UNDERRUN could be caused by the disc burner? Although I've been able to rip and burn using MTR and Popcorn, in the last few days I get that error, and I've tried burning the source files from 3 different drives. The files in question are under 4.3G, so no compression is needed, and I've ripped from both MTR and DVDBackup.
I'm also getting the error message with Toast when attempting to burn data.
My DVD burner is a Pioneer 105 connected by Firewire. G4 Dual 866.
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22. April 2005 @ 10:23 |
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Is anything else going on in your system? Are you using other apps?
Have you tried a slower burn speed?
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Fauxlimey
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22. April 2005 @ 14:12 |
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I've tried 2x, with no other apps running, and it still happens. My computer has been a bit sluggish in general, of late, come to think of it. I'm running 10.3.8.
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25. April 2005 @ 07:49 |
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I've heard of problems with 10.3.8. Upgrade to 10.3.9 and the rebuild permissions and dump all the crap out of your system that you no longer need.
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Fauxlimey
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25. April 2005 @ 16:09 |
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Hey Mediaguru,
Thanks for the suggestion, but still no dice. I upgraded to 10.3.9, and rebuilt permissions. Tried to burn same file (4.1Gb) to a disk with Popcorn, but it failed a few minutes into the burn. Then I tried burning a CD with Toast on the same burner (Pioneer 104, firmware 1.00) and it failed again. Switched burner to Philips CDD5101 in Toast and sucessfully burned a CD (did it twice). So I'm back to thinking there's something wrong with the Pioneer drive. The drive reads fine.
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25. April 2005 @ 16:14 |
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Have you tried different media?
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Fauxlimey
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25. April 2005 @ 17:56 |
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I've been sucessful with this media (Memorex 8x DVD-R) up until a few days ago, and the CD burning test was done with Maxell CD-R. So maybe not a media problem?
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25. April 2005 @ 18:10 |
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Well, for the hell of it try a couple of more brands like Ritek and Taiyo Yuden see what happens.
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Fauxlimey
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25. April 2005 @ 18:16 |
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Will do. By the way, I just remembered something which might be significant... 3 days ago I was burning a copy of a short film that I made (1.2 Gb) , when the Buffer Underrun message popped up, but the partial burn had actually mounted on my desktop, and subsequently played for a short while.
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25. April 2005 @ 20:28 |
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Well the disc was just reading the data that was there. They burn inside out sequentially. SO I bet it just stopped which would be right at where your underrun occured.
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CArringt
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26. April 2005 @ 19:56 |
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here's a quick question for the master of all media, ....time alottd for a bow....
what programs should i use to rip a dvd (movie only) and save it to a AVI file or any other formatt. i want to have a one ffile video that doesn't get above 1 gb witthoutthe loss of quality
thanks almighty one,
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26. April 2005 @ 20:16 |
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Well for starters, you're not going to take a full 4-7GB dvd and reduce it to 1GB without quality loss.
That being said, you could use dvdxdv to extract to full resolution quicktime. Then use quicktime pro or ffmpegx to convert to some other "compressed" format. MPEG4 would probably be your best combination of quality versus size.
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