RatVega
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Mar 10, 2006, 3:52 AM
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The DVD files are basically muxed MPEG-2 files. FCP can accept a number of formats like MPEG-4, but they will require rendering. The native FCP format is .mov (aka QT Movie) with 48KHz/16-bit audio.
In this case, you don't really need QT to "accept" anything, you just need to get ffmpegX to spit out a .mov file. You'll be using QT to re-encode the output of your edit and later to transcode back to MPEG-2.
This is sometimes a source of confusion in the Mac editing environment; basically everything is based on QT, but a lot goes on "under the hood." To load the footage into FCP, you just rip it from .VOB back to a QT Movie (.mov) which makes it native and deals with the muxed audio, then import it into FCP. QT will be working its little butt off, but at the direction of FCP, so you don't need to do anything but call the import.
I've never used (heck, I've never even seen) ffmpegX, so I don't know what other options are available but if you must, you can go to MPEG-4, import that and render the timeline to make it native. This is my second pick, but then I'm using DVDxDV which produces the .mov's required. But I have cut straight up MPEG-4 in FCP, it's just not optimum.
I have a location shoot starting tomorrow and I'll be gone for several days, hopefully someone else can assist if you have any more questions. Good luck!
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