[Simon Young]

I've recently attempted to create a Charlie's Angels music video, using footage from the DVD. After extracting the VOB files and demuxing them, I originally decided to convert the resulting MPEG-2 files into MPEG-4 movies, using Mac MPEG-2 Converter. I would then import these MPEG-4 movies into Final Cut Pro 2.0 and edit them. However, I wasn't happy with the quality of the MPEG-4 files, and the resulting music video - due to a lack of HD space, I had to compress the video quite a bit.

Then Apple released the add-on for QT6, which gave it MPEG-2 playback capabilities. Great, I thought, now I can go back and use the original MPEG-2 files, by simply reconnecting the media in Final Cut to them. Only problem is, Final Cut doesn't seem to like QT6's MPEG-2 decoding, as every time I try exporting the music video to a DV stream or Quicktime file, parts of it freeze and parts go blocky.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this, so that Final Cut can work directly with MPEG-2 files with no hitches?

[buddhabelly]

I think that part of the problem is that QT6 is only qualified for FCP3 under Jaguar. I've also read that MPEG-2 support in QT6 hasn't been astounding thus far. I think that apple "tells" you to stay with QT5 or below until Jaguar comes. I know this doesn't really help, but they make the software.. and the rules by which they work together.

[Simon Young]

It seems that the problem was not with Final Cut Pro and MPEG-2, but with the way I demuxed the VOB files. I tried simply opening the VOBs in Quicktime Pro, saving them as stand-alone Quicktime files, and then using those in Final Cut Pro, and they worked like a charm.

Just thought I'd let people know that I'd resolved this, in case anyone want to do some editing of DVD material!