Importing for Streamclip settings??

[Daniel Corcoran]

Hi there,

I am very new to editing so forgive my poor knowledge- I have begun a project which requires me to edit little clips for about 10 different DVD's and Im looking for the most efficient/ correct method in which to do so! So far I have gotten to this point-

Insert DVD- Rip DVD using Handbrake- into MPEG4- then I use mpeg streamclip to convert the files into DV- after this I import the DV QT into Final Cut!

A few problems/ questions so far: what are the best settings to use for ripping using Handbrake??
My main area of interest is using streamclip properly! Thus far I have encountered a little green vertical line running down the side of the screen after I use streamclip- is this to do with pixels?? wrong settings etc?

Basically I'm looking to find out what is the best settings are to use in streamclip for importing into FCP! I obviously want to have the best quality footage to edit once the clips are imported! Forgot to mention I'm working in PAL.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Daniel Corcoran

[tomlee59]

One rule is: If quality matters, minimize the number of transcodes. Your workflow re-encodes the video several times. So, quality suffers, and you spend a lot of time, too. Since you've said that quality matters, then you may want to alter your workflow.

MPEGstreamclip will allow you to perform simple edits on the DVD's mpeg-2 directly, provided that you have purchased Apple's MPEG2 component. So, unless you are trying to do something more elaborate than cutting and splicing, I'd highly recommend that. You can then export into DV, if that's what you need to do.

If you do need to do more elaborate edits, this workflow is still the best. It avoids the Handbrake step, allowing you to go from DVD to DV in one step.

[terryj]

You have Final Cut, and you have MpegStreamclip.
Final Cut Pro since version 5.1 can edit demuxed
mpeg-2 streams ( in elementary format).

What this means is that after you rip the DVD using say
Mac The Ripper, then open the vobset in MpegStreamclip,
and after fixing time code breaks, demux the file back
into elementary ( separate) streams , thus producing
either a m2v and m2a file set, or a m2v and aiff file set,
or an m2v and ac3 fileset.

You then import the elementary streams into FCP, and then
edit there what you need. Once done, then send off to Compressor
to make your muxed files for DVD.

( and btw, if you bought FCP, chances are you got a copy of the Mpeg-2
codec needed for Quicktime and Mpegstreamclip).