Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into
iMovie?
Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software?
Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who
converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape?
The quickest and simplest would be to get the mini-dv tapes.
However, there is an excellent free application, which would solve a
lot of the recent conversion problems people have been having, called
Mpeg-streamclip. You can get it here
<http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html>.
I was just reading the help file on it to see if it could pull just
the aiff out of the dvd when I also noticed that it specifically
mentions dealing with EyeTV streams. It also does a great job of
converting MPEGs to quicktimes. You will need to get Apple's Mpeg 2
component for some operations.
I'm not familiar with iMovie at all, but another method that might
work is to attach your dvd player to your camera, and your camera to
your mac, and play the dvd in via E to E mode - capturing it with
iMovie.
I do this with FCP all the time, and it is the quickest and simplest
solution, being realtime.
cheers
Jude
