[DM-MUG] importing video from a DVD

[Jeff Muller]

Thanks, everyone! I knew there had to be some solutions somewhere. iMovie won't open any of the files in the folders on the "raw" DVD. I'll get Mpeg Streamclip & Handbrake and go from there.

Jeff

On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Arne Quanbeck wrote:

> Use a tool designed to import DVDs, like HandBrake, then import the  
> ripped copy into iMovie. I think Apple makes it intentionally  
> difficult to import DVD content since that is a major way movies are  
> sold.
> 
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 21:48, Matt Stanton <inflatablesoulmate at brothersofchaos.com 
>> wrote:
> 
>> DVD video is a sort of confusing deal.  I'm not sure that I really
>> understand much more than a sliver of it, but I will attempt a stab at
>> it.  First, video on a DVD (standard, anyway... there are also DivX
>> DVDs, and they are a whole other matter) is encoded as an mpeg-2
>> Transport Stream.  That's what the VIDEO_TS folder has in it.   
>> The .VOB
>> files are the different video streams.  On a self-made DVD with no
>> menus, trailers, etc, you should have only maybe one or two of these.
>> If you download a video player for mac that can play these directly,
>> then you could open each one to find out which is the correct video.
>> 
>> There are other files on the DVD, but I have no clue what they really
>> do.  I assume that subtitle tracks, alternate audio tracks (Dolby
>> Digital, DTS, PCM, and different languages), menu system options,
>> playback control, chapter points, and some of the other stuff that  
>> DVDs
>> are capable of go in those files.  The only thing you'll be interested
>> in should be the .VOB files.  You will likely need to transcode them  
>> to
>> a format that iMovie can work with.  I don't have any experience with
>> iMovie, so I can't really help you with it, but it might be possible  
>> to
>> just stick the dvd in the drive, open iMovie, and select video clips
>> from the DVD for it to extract, in which case it should take care of  
>> the
>> transcoding for you.  Maybe see if iMovie has a way of 'importing'  
>> the dvd?
>> 
>> On 4/9/2010 8:47 PM, Jeff Muller wrote:
>>> I'd like to put together a project in iMovie (my first attempt)  
>>> using several pieces of video that are on DVDs. Most of these were  
>>> originally on a broadcast format and were dubbed to VHS and later  
>>> to DVD (the more recent ones were straight to DVD). All of them  
>>> will play fine in the iMac's DVD Player. The problem is that when I  
>>> try to import any of them into iMovie, I get two folders called  
>>> "VIDEO_RM"&  "VIDEO_TS". Inside those folders are several grayed- 
>>> out files with cryptic names and extensions  
>>> like .BUP, .IFO, .DAT, .VOB. I don't have a clue what these are or  
>>> how to make them available. I've searched thru the Help files but  
>>> can't find anything that addresses this problem.
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong? Help, please!
>>> 
>>> Jeff
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