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best pipeline for HD ripping, editing and re-authoring to Blu-ray |
| col_in_van posted 2009 Oct 18 22:41 |
| I'm a visual effects artist and have finally decided to retrace my steps over the years and re-assemble my demo reel of work into HD format then burn this to Blu-ray. I have some of the original files at high resolution but most are NTSC so I have to grab the clips from retail blu-ray disks.
I'm on a mac, so far I have ripped the Blu-ray files to MKV's using makeMKV. Next I'd like to trim these down to the few shots I have worked on in each movie, then edit them together in an editing package and slap a bit of music in there to make roughly a four minute montage. I'm not sure the best route though, I want to keep the quality as high as possible. Using MediaInfo I have found that most of the MKV's are made with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and one is MPEG-2. I found " Video Editor For Mac" from orgsoft, it seems to be able to trim the MKV's down to my desired in's and out's but I'm worried that even if I select the output format to be the same as the input format it is still going to be re-compressing the footage. BTW I also tried Amersoft Total Media Convert but it doesn't allow for conversion size of 1920 x 1080 ( at least version 2.0.1.3 doesn't) Editing wise I'm thinking of using Imovie of final cut (I have version 6.04) but again I'm worried of double compression - thus loss of quality. Does anyone have any suggestion on my best route? cheers! |
| Baldrick posted 2009 Oct 19 03:05 |
| Try instead avidemux or/and tsmuxer(very basic cutter).
And I'm moving you to our mac section. |
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