wrote: > Begging the community's indulgence for an off-topic question - Does anyone > on the list have experience ripping Blu Ray disks? And want to recommend a > player and software? I'll be pulling scenes from about 9 disks. > > I'm on a Mac -Snow Leopard on one machine, Mountain Lion on another, with > plenty of drive space and speed. > > And it's for the filmmaker. No one seems to have access to any of this > footage in video or digitally. > > Many thanks, > > > Jonathan > > > > > *JONATHAN PENZNER* > VIDEO EDITING * MOTION GRAPHICS * DESIGN > > | STUDIO 626 345-0285 | > | CELL 818 321-2890 | > > sundancerealtime@me.com > -- _____________________________ VFX & Motion Graphic Artist teddygage dot com --089e0158ac762ac6e404f25025a7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This is a huge pain. Not as easy as it sounds. Honestly, w= ould be easier if you had access to a PC system as the tools are better, dr= ives are faster and process is more streamlined.

F= irst, you could simply stream the movie through HDMI from a player to an HD= MI capture card, but I don't know what your options are there, hardware= -wise. Probably expensive for good quality. You are looking at 30-50 GB per= disc.

Second, you could buy a USB bluray drive that is mac co= mpatible. Apple does not make a blu ray drive and offers no software. Auror= a makes player software and a free ripper, but that produces a hard to hand= le or edit .bdmv file. You are better off with www.makemkv.com/ which will create an mkv (matroska) video file= of your bluray video. From there you would need to convert it using VLC, h= andbrake or maybe ffmpeg for editing. That conversion is tricky itself, and= time consuming.

Honestly it may be easier (and cheaper in terms o= f hours) to just keep pursuing a digital master. He must know what house ma= de his blurays or have a producer make a call. Is it sold in a digital form= at online anywhere? an itunes .mp4 could be ideal.

-TG

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Jonat= han <sureal@charter.net> wrote:

Beg= ging the community's indulgence for an off-topic question – Does = anyone on the list have experience ripping Blu Ray disks? And want to recom= mend a player and software? I'll be pulling scenes from about 9 disks.<= /div>

I'm on a Mac –Snow Leopard on one machine, Mo= untain Lion on another, with plenty of drive space and speed.
And it's for the filmmaker. No one seems to have access to = any of this footage in video or digitally.

Many thanks,

Jo= nathan

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VIDEO EDITING • MOTION GRAPHICS &bu= ll; DESIGN

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