Ripping on PC, Editing in Final Cut.

The Eva Monkey · Post by **The Eva Monkey** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:38 pm

So basically, I'm a PC user, but as a Film/Video student, I edit on Final Cut on MAC. I have no ability to install software on the MAC stations, and I don't want to log and capture from a DVD player run through a Deck or DV Camera. That's too time intensive and doesn't produce good quality source.

As far as I've managed to get on any tutorial is:

VOB Decrypted
.d2v created
.avs created

At the point where I need to open my .avs in Virtual Dub, I get:

Avisynth open failure:
MPEG2Source: couldn't open file
(C:\source\VTS_05_1.avs, line 3)

Now, from what I gather, this is most likely due to a typo, but I tried it over and over again. I can't find a typo. I re-decrypted, I re-created a .d2v file, I re-created the .avs. I uninstalled, reinstalled, etc, etc, etc. So I searched on Doom9.net, and a few people said they had this strange problem, and their remedy was A COMPLETE REFORMAT. No way in hell I'm going to go through that trouble for what might only be a POSSIBLE remedy to the problem. At least not before trying other methods.

What I'm looking for is suggestions on how to get Virtual Dub working, or alternative methods to Virtual Dub.

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:17 pm

can you post a copy of your .avs script?

The Eva Monkey · Post by **The Eva Monkey** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:50 pm

Problem solved. AVISynth/VirtualDub do not like DGMPGDec, the program that DVD2AVI became. Used an old version of DVD2AVI. It worked. Exported high quality DIVX AVI. Used QuEnc071 to encode to MPEG2, which Final Cut should be able to work with.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:27 pm

The Eva Monkey wrote:high quality DIVX

wait....

yes....

...i do believe thats an oxymoron

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:50 pm

Wait, holy crap, did you convert from DVD (MPEG-2) to DivX to Mpeg-2 just to have editing souce? o_o

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:52 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:Wait, holy crap, did you convert from DVD (MPEG-2) to DivX to Mpeg-2 just to have editing souce? o_o

Don't bother. Once that thing founds a "solution", I don't think it'll come back.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:18 am

angelx03 wrote:
DJ_Izumi wrote:Wait, holy crap, did you convert from DVD (MPEG-2) to DivX to Mpeg-2 just to have editing souce? o_o
Don't bother. Once that thing founds a "solution", I don't think it'll come back.

So it's useless to post a link to a better solution to "convert" VOBs to MPGs?

Or, since the ultimate destination is FCP on a Mac wouldn't conversion to DV AVI through VirtualDub with a VfW DV codec like Panasonic's be better?

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:24 am

At the very least, he could have used VirtualDub's frameserver to dump the ivtc'ed video from Vdub to his Mpeg-2 encoder and saved himself one round of lossy encoding and the time involved in that. Still not the ideal solution but it'd remove at least one needless step.

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:40 pm

The Eva Monkey wrote:Problem solved. AVISynth/VirtualDub do not like DGMPGDec, the program that DVD2AVI became. Used an old version of DVD2AVI. It worked. Exported high quality DIVX AVI. Used QuEnc071 to encode to MPEG2, which Final Cut should be able to work with.

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The Eva Monkey · Post by **The Eva Monkey** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:32 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:Wait, holy crap, did you convert from DVD (MPEG-2) to DivX to Mpeg-2 just to have editing souce? o_o

For my first attempt, my goal was just to get decent source into Final Cut, I'm aware there are better ways. That's my next step.

angelx03 wrote:Don't bother. Once that thing founds a "solution", I don't think it'll come back.

Thing? It? What are you getting at?

DJ_Izumi wrote:At the very least, he could have used VirtualDub's frameserver to dump the ivtc'ed video from Vdub to his Mpeg-2 encoder and saved himself one round of lossy encoding and the time involved in that. Still not the ideal solution but it'd remove at least one needless step.

Needless conversion, I'm sure, but I was mostly working off of VicBond's guide, and his guide results in divx footage for editing in premiere. Hence why I ended up using another app to convert my results into mpeg 2.

Your suggestion of using VirtualDub's frameserver doesn't help me, at least not with the version/setup I have currently, again a result of working with Vic's guide. Same deal with DV AVI, I just haven't gotten things configured for alternate methods.

For now, I just don't care about the perfectionism I'm picking up here. I don't care about creating the absolute best source possible. I just want to get some good footage into FCP so I can do what I love, editing.

I suppose my first mistake was not being persistant enough, because apparently I'm just a "thing" that will never return or care that someone took the time to help "it".