DVD VIDEO_TS --> DV/NTSC

[patrickco]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out how one converts all of the VIDEO_TS files of a created DVD back to a format which can be imported into programs such as iMovie for editing?

Is there a simple program that removes the MPEG-2 encoding and brings it back to it's natural digital video state?

thank you!

-patrick

 

[Zimmerb61]

Please me too

Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out how one converts all of the VIDEO_TS files of a created DVD back to a format which can be imported into programs such as iMovie for editing?

Is there a simple program that removes the MPEG-2 encoding and brings it back to it's natural digital video state?

thank you!

-patrick

Exactly the same thing I am trying todo please if anyone has any idea's?

Barry

 

[RobDreugan]

Once you change the format from an uncompressed NTSC, or PAL, to any other format be it, .avi, or a dvd format etc..

To my knowledge there is no undo button. This is due to the fact that you don't recompile a compressed format to an uncompressed one. It doesn't really work like a zip file, for lack of a better analogy.

You have a few options though. If you are happy with the quality from your files that you have now, and just want them to become an NTSC format ( which technically speaking it already is, its just not in that file format at the moment, tho video speaking it is NTSC at 29.97fps ) all you would have to do is capture that footage straight from your dvd, into software that does video capture.

The ghetto way to do it, would be. Firewire from your camera to the mac, and then connect the wire that you would normally view your footage from the camera on, a tv, yer RCA cable, and plug that in to the video out on yer dvd player. So, now hit play on the dvd player, put the camera in vcr mode, and then hit capture on yer computer.

If yer trying to capture straight from the dvd drive in yer mac, I don't know how to do that yet. I've never had to do that, but I should know very shortly.