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I was talking to AD about that and he said vicbond's guide is a bit outdated, he wants you to use his instead XP. i dunno....i like him more anyways....

Absolute Destiny....i'm too lazy to write all that out....

You might want to spell "Premiere" correctly, for future reference. gaia_up

I think you should have something about FTP progrmas and such up there cuz when i started out that was the most confusin thing for me.

I'll give you the one I use when I get back to college and can figure out what its called.

Anyone know any good programs for macs to get footage from dvd's?

Unless mine and Paul's machines are wierd FCE and FCP are able to both simply capture .vob strait from the DVD simply by old fasioned cut+paste method or Importing (though is is cruel and grueling and only works with a DVD in the rom drive). If you are using iMovie....... DON'T. My recomendation for anyone serious about quality both on capture and output is to dumpster dive or visit a local thriftstore to pick up a cheep P3 or equivilent desktop PC for ripping and converting. Most Mac based ripping utilites are VERY lossy and do not support some of the better Lossless or Mpeg4 and equivilent codecs. (Or go buy a dual boot Mactel, but that's not my recomendation at all. mad ) Also this is nice because the beautiful Mpeg2 output from FCE/P can convert to a multi-system friendly codec like 3vix/xviD without a while lot of loss through Vdub. Most Mac uts will destroy video quality and give very few, if any at all, quantinizer or bitrate controls.
On a side not the absolute best method for h/x.264/263 encoding I have ever seen is Mac Quicktime Pro. Sorry PC guys, but its the facts. It gives the absolute best control over the I-frame arc and Bitrate simultaneously! Don't believe me get a copy of SceneScope. I have used soem of them most expensive software on the market and the facts are the facts, my 30 dollar copy of Quicktime Pro did more for I-frames (keyframes) than ANYTHING EVER!! It got the Motorloa M1000 to display video, and that like pulling teeth from a chicken! I use it for all of my Podcasts, 3GP streams and PS video. Love it hate it, facts are facts.

That's still a don't ask don't tell thing ><;; Let's just say everyone should get the DVDs. I don't want to hear about how they got them. Whether it's the store, Netflix, on the black market..... >_>

Well it depends on the program you're using but you generally just import the song into the program and go from there... There's generally an import button ((or link in the menu)) and after you click on that you find your song file and select it. --I have no idea if that made any sense... sweatdrop