Hey guys I'm working with some friends trying to edit a trailer they shot on a SD DV cam. They were imported on a windows based machine from what I understand and put on an external Hard drive. I tried to take the files off to edit them with my mac using Final Cut Express but I can't read the files. Here are the file extensions. They are .BUP .IFO .VOB files. Is there a way I can convert them so I can edit them on my mac? I'm drawing a blank here and any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Editing footage taken from Windows system to Mac...problems
- Thread starter Jones23
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.bup and .ifo files are the information files for a DVD and .vob is a video file on DVD
Mpeg-2/DVD is probably the worst thing you could have rendered to if you wanted to edit it on a Mac. Mpeg-2 is probably the worst editing codec out there.
Nevertheless, I would assume FCP would have native ability to open and edit vob files.
That said, you have two choices - transcode to a better editing codec like a lossless AVI such as lagarith or huffyuv, or to the equivelent for .mov , or simply re-render the original footage on the windows machine, which will ultimately result in higher quality.
Mpeg-2/DVD is probably the worst thing you could have rendered to if you wanted to edit it on a Mac. Mpeg-2 is probably the worst editing codec out there.
Nevertheless, I would assume FCP would have native ability to open and edit vob files.
That said, you have two choices - transcode to a better editing codec like a lossless AVI such as lagarith or huffyuv, or to the equivelent for .mov , or simply re-render the original footage on the windows machine, which will ultimately result in higher quality.