I'm doing a project for my former film teacher of "Precious Moments in Cinema History." Essentially its lots of little clips from 200+ movies (Yes, that we own 
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My problem is I have a single chapter ripped on my hard drive in mpeg2 format (used OsEx), and none of my editing applications can read it (obviously since i don't have the playback component). I need to be able to edit the chapter down to about 5-10 seconds. (x200)
My QUESTION: Is there another way to do this so that i don't have to shell out $20 for the Apple playback component?
(me= poor student)
I realize that I could export them to a different format using something like diva,etc.. but with 200+ clips this would take awhile. My teacher is also very picky about quality. It also eventially gets formatted back to mpeg 2 anyway b/c its going on a dvd.
Has anybody done this / tried something like it? Or am i doomed to having to spend the money?
Thanks.
(BTW, please don't flame me for illegal copy protection stuff, this isn't illegal & its for a good cause)
)My problem is I have a single chapter ripped on my hard drive in mpeg2 format (used OsEx), and none of my editing applications can read it (obviously since i don't have the playback component). I need to be able to edit the chapter down to about 5-10 seconds. (x200)
My QUESTION: Is there another way to do this so that i don't have to shell out $20 for the Apple playback component?
(me= poor student)
I realize that I could export them to a different format using something like diva,etc.. but with 200+ clips this would take awhile. My teacher is also very picky about quality.
It also eventially gets formatted back to mpeg 2 anyway b/c its going on a dvd. Has anybody done this / tried something like it? Or am i doomed to having to spend the money?
Thanks.
(BTW, please don't flame me for illegal copy protection stuff, this isn't illegal & its for a good cause)