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- From: Chuck Warner <chuck AT hyped2death.com>
- To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Cc: frank mauceri <smogveil AT yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Shivvers/DVD-authoring help?
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:21:27 -0500
Title: Re: [TypicalGirls] Shivvers/DVD-authoring help?
Thanks for the help so far, but I thought I'd better post an
update from the offline comments so far on this and another
news-group:
The problem with the iMovie/iDVD program from Mac's lovely (and
very reasonably-priced) iLife '06 suite is that they suffer from the
built-in refusal of OSX to allow capture or editing of anything that
it recognizes as DVD (whether the source is protected or region-free
or not). Mac does this at the Unix/system level to prevent DVD
piracy, of course, but annoyingly it prevents subsequent editing of
shared unprotected DVD media as well.
Frank Mauceri of Smog Veil Records wrote:
You probably cannot capture DVD video/audio using iDVDor iMovie or the higher end apps Final Cut Pro and DVDStudio Pro. I have seen apps that allow it, but havenever used them, and I've never seen ashareware/freeware version.HOWEVER, iMovie HD, which is included in iLife statesthe following:"In addition to transferring video from your digitalcamcorder, you can import video from a CD or DVD, orfrom other locations on your computer's hard disk."and further provides instructions for doing so.BUT, I just tried it using a DVD I created in aprevious version of iMovie/iDVD and it did not work.
I own an excellent program called Snapz Pro X that uses
screen-shot code to work around the OSX blockade but because it must
capture the video stream in real-time it is limited to 30 frames per
second: that's fine for making MPEGs for extended CDs, but useless for
DVD transfer/authoring.
Painful/pricey as it may be I think I'll have to plug the DVD
player [analog] into an outboard digital converter and Firewire that
back into my Mac. Then use iMovie and iDVD as necessary. I
suppose it will also be handy to have that kind of set-up for VHS
transfers of other bands, but,
Meanwhile I'll try talking the band into letting me go back to a
"simple" enhanced CD instead. They've been such
sweethearts over the years I hate to disappoint them.
Well, thanks again: further patches/fixes/suggestions are still
welcome.
C.
Chuck Warner
Hyped to Death CDs
http://hyped2death.com
- Re: [TypicalGirls] Shivvers/DVD-authoring help?, Chuck Warner, 01/26/2006
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