Help with a Mac (VOBs to DV)

obh04 · Post by **obh04** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:10 pm

OK I have Final Cut Express 2 and I can not import my .mov clips that I made with DiVA. I got my clips with OSEx and turned them into .mov with DiVA. FCE says that the clips are unsupported.
Is there anyother programs I can use?
Thanks

obh04 · Post by **obh04** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:55 pm

I figured something out.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:28 pm

This might be what you came up with, but I'll mention it for the sake of anyone else with the same question:

You can export to DV with Quicktime.

OR

You can use FFMPEG (or FFMPEGX, which is FFMPEG with a pretty Mac-only GUI for people who don't like the console).

ffmpeg -i Foo.vob -ar 48000 -r 29.97 -s 720x480 Bar.dv

Of course, you replace "Foo" and "Bar" with the name of your input clip and desired output file, respectively. This might be a lot faster than using Quicktime, since my experience with Quicktime is that it's encoding tends to run WAY on the slow side compared to some of the console stuff. You should probably do a test run with each to see if you see and difference between the two (which you shouldn't, but who knows) and whether there really is a big performance difference in encoding time.

obh04 · Post by **obh04** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:28 pm

I am using FFMPEG to export my clips to DV.

rose4emily
Could you explain to me what you mean by "Foo" and "Bar"?

Thanks

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:40 pm

obh04 wrote:Could you explain to me what you mean by "Foo" and "Bar"?

Foo and Bar.