Please Help:Getting Camcorder DVD into IMovie

[LillieDesigns]

Ok, so a friend of mine used a mini disk recorder to record a few clips that need to be edited. He converted the files to a normal sized dvd and they come up in a "Sony Mobile" dvd menu. They are encoded as a Video_TS folder and I can't get them to open in iMovie. I tried using ffmpegx, but it says due to copyright laws Video_TS can't be converted.


Please help asap!!!

thanks =]

[slinky0390]

Ok, so a friend of mine used a mini disk recorder to record a few clips that need to be edited. He converted the files to a normal sized dvd and they come up in a "Sony Mobile" dvd menu. They are encoded as a Video_TS folder and I can't get them to open in iMovie. I tried using ffmpegx, but it says due to copyright laws Video_TS can't be converted.


Please help asap!!!

thanks =]

Normally, with miniDV (different format than you have) you would capture the footage from the tape into iMovie. but in your case, you have a dvd with footage on it, youre going to need to convert the dvd to a format that you can use in iMovie such as .mov. since youre having copyright problems wit ffmpegx, i would suggest downloading handbrake, its free by the way. handbrake will allow you to rip the footage off of your dvd.

[ftaok]

Actually, Handbrake is not the application for this task.

You'll want something like DVDxDV or Cinematize to convert the MPEG-2 footage to DV. There are other applications that do this as well, but I haven't been keeping up to date with it.

You might also try looking at VisualHub or CaptDVD.

Good Luck

ft