Ripping a DVD to my Avid Xpress HD Pro

[intrloper9]

Hey guys,

This is my first post here, and I must admit, I'm sort of overwhelmed by the amount of info on this site. So I'm basically just posting my question here. If someone can answer me specifically here, I'd appreciate it. Or, if someone can just point me to a Guide/Section on this site that answers the questions, I'd appreciate that too.

I have a movie I directed which was outputted from an editing lab onto a DVD master. I now want to rip the movie off that DVD so I can bring it on to my personal computer at home. I want to be able to open and edit the movie on an Avid Xpress HD Pro.

In a nutshell, what's the easiest way to do this for a total Noob?

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

If Avid Xpress supports mpg you can use VOB2MPG on the DVD and get a mpg file from your dvd.

If it doesn't support mpeg you can convert your DVD to DV-AVI with for example MPEG StreamClip, select file->open files and select the first vts_01_1.vob on the dvd and streamclip will open all. Select File->Make DV and set the options and make a new DV file.

Or ask them if you could get a dv source or something else...dvd is not the best for editing.

[Guiboche]

Again, what Baldrick said. I would never start editing from the DVD source. Unless they have burnt you a DATA file to work from.

It's your film. Get the master and capture it into your editor. Best solution

[intrloper9]

Hey guys, after getting some advice from Avid.com, I decided to go with Cinematize 2.0, which I then updated to 2.0.2. Everything seemed to be working fine with it, until I brought the extracted stream Vid and Audio into my Avid and the sound was completely out of sync with the video. I could tell even just by looking at the timeline, as the audio was a full 90 secs shorter than the video.

I've now spent all my time since posting this thread trying to figure this problem out. Someone on the Avid.com site pointed me to a post where a guy had a similiar issue and the Customer Service people from Cinematize told him how to set his options. Well, if any of you are familiar with Cinematize, I'd appreciate it if you could explain this to me.

What's happening is, a few of the options their telling him/me to tweak in the Output category, I don't have.

3. On the Output tab:
- Save QuickTime As = Self-contained File
- Output Format = QuickTime File

I am not given the option of 'Save QuickTime As". For me, it is grayed out and says 'No Quicktime Output'. And on Output Format the only option I'm given is 'Separate Stream Files'.

Everything else I was able to tweak. And on the Avid end, I changed my Import > Audio setting to 'Convert source sample rates with audio pull-up or pull-down to project sample rate on import'.

Is there a way to download codecs into my version of Cinematize?

Thanks, guys.