Just made the switch. 1st task on mac

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5150man5150man
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
So I just bought my first mac, the 20 inch intel imac. Really excited about editing some home video. I made a DVD on my pc a couple years ago but it got a little screwed up when converting from .avi to mpeg. Some parts of the video skip.

My question is, now that I've got this great little editing system and a dvd burner, can I rip this dvd back to .avi and still use the good parts? If so how would I go about doing it?



thanks in advance

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    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    IT would be best to just demux the MPEG 2 files and convert them straight to DV. That way there is very little loss in image quality.



    AFAIK, iMovie does not handle avi files as well as DV.
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    mr. memr. me Posts: 3,221member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ebby

    IT would be best to just demux the MPEG 2 files and convert them straight to DV. That way there is very little loss in image quality.



    AFAIK, iMovie does not handle avi files as well as DV.



    iMovie can handle .avi, but the required DivX 6 codec for Intel-based Macs is still in beta. However, there is simply no reason to use .avi when there are other fully-supported standard formats.
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    5150man5150man Posts: 2member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ebby

    IT would be best to just demux the MPEG 2 files and convert them straight to DV. That way there is very little loss in image quality.



    AFAIK, iMovie does not handle avi files as well as DV.



    Thanks a lot for the response. You're talking to a greenie here. What does it mean to demux? Is there an app that in iLife that can do this?
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    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
    A program called "HandBreak" for macs, free, can rip any (even comericial) dvd's video.
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    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    The video and audio files on a DVD are merged together into a single file. This process is called multiplexing. To de-multiplex (demux for short) splits this one file into separate audio and video files. More utilities can handle files easier this way. A program like MPEG Streamclip can export your video from those DVD files to a DV file for editing.



    If you use that Application, hold down shift when you choose your video files to select them all. Everything from there on is pretty self-explanitory. I will be glad to answer any questions though.
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