Handbrake will only transcode into different MPEG flavors or AVI, so to get into a Media Composer you have to transcode twice. MPEG Streamclip has two advantages: it’s free, and it’ll digitize directly into Quicktime formats, including the Avid QT formats. On a Mac, you can use Handbrake, Cinematize, and MPEG Streamclip, among other applications. The process begins with software to get the video off the DVD. It seems to work well and once you figure it out, it’s not all that hard to do. I’ll describe the workflow I came up with below. There are indeed, many, many ways to convert DVD material to Avid media, and by now, it seems like I’ve tried them all. But I didn’t have the hardware, so I persisted. Better to use a good DVD player, using component or SDI outputs, and digitize via hardware: Adrenaline, Mojo or Nitris. Many friends told me not to attempt this–too many settings, too many ways to screw yourself up. ![]() ![]() And I had to do it at home on a software-only Media Composer system. ![]() I recently had to re-edit some source material that lived only on a DVD.
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