How to Convert Video TS to .DV file for iMovie

[MikeT125]

I want to know if there is way to take Video TS files and convert them straight into a .DV file so they can be edited in iMovie.

My situation is that I use a program like Mac the Ripper to extract a DVD into the Audio and Video TS folders. My step 2 is to use Handbrake to convert it to MPEG and then MPEG-Streamclip to convert it to .DV

The problem I am having is that while this process works, the final product video quality is slightly off. I know that the loss is either in Handbrake or the MPEG-Streamclip program. How can I go straight to DV, either through a program or straight from the DVD?

Thanks!

 

[r.j.s]

MPEG StreamClip can export Video TS as DV.

 

[MikeT125]

MPEG StreamClip can export Video TS as DV.

If I go and select the Video TS file will it have the audio attached to it? I ask because there is a separate Audio TS folder and I have always thought that the extraction separated the two.

 

[r.j.s]

If I go and select the Video TS file will it have the audio attached to it? I ask because there is a separate Audio TS folder and I have always thought that the extraction separated the two.

Yes, it references the audio.

 

[MikeT125]

Cool, I will give this a try. Thanks!!

 

[spice weasel]

If I go and select the Video TS file will it have the audio attached to it? I ask because there is a separate Audio TS folder and I have always thought that the extraction separated the two.

Open up the AUDIO_TS folder and you will see that it is empty. Audio is muxed in the vob files in the VIDEO_TS folder.

 

[hak187]

You can also use Roxio Toast Titanium to convert dvd (the disc, iso file or video_ts) to dv as well.

 

[wackymacky]

You can also use Roxio Toast Titanium to convert dvd (the disc, iso file or video_ts) to dv as well.

Yes, but MPEG Streamclip is free and open source(?) whereas Toast Titanium, while easy to use is not cheap.

 

[MikeT125]

Yes, but MPEG Streamclip is free and open source(?) whereas Toast Titanium, while easy to use is not cheap.

The mPeg streamclip is telling me that I need to buy an add on from Apple to play MPEG files even though I asked it to make a DV file. I am not sure why it is doing that.