I can’t tell you how many clients bring in a DVD as the only source, desperately needed for an important presentation, and 1 always caution them that quality will not be up to their first-generation material. But Cinematize Pro often makes me a liar.
Cinematize Pro's simple drag-and-drop interface accepts DVD title sets.
I enjoy Cinematize Pro over freebie rippers for its orderly approach to extracting chapters from unprotected DVD discs. It's as easy as loading a DVD and dragging the disc icon into the CP window, CP sorts out all the video assets into title sets. You simply select one and painlessly open it into the content selection pane. Cinematize Pro allows you to span and join DVD chapters into a single QuickTime movie-- any format supported, including HD-- a continuous extraction range from the first frame of Chapter I to the last frame of Chapter XX. or defined regions of several segments. The onscreen preview window lets you drag to fine· tune your entrances and exits. One by one, you add to a list of segments to extract. then tell it to do so, and go to lunch. No surprises.
If I had one enhancement wish It would be a custom output settings list I could set up and then choose from for multiple exports in a single session .. as in Episode Pro or After Effects. This becomes critical with so many new video venues opening up. But CP does a nice job of covering iPods and 3GPP player presets in popup menu choices, so this is a quibble.
Extraction Is fast on new multicore towers. I could see almost every core engaged in my Mac Activity Monitor. Even non-64-bit apps like CP are multi-processor aware and really cut down on wait time. CP has currently little reason to access or load more than 4GB of RAM, the 32-bit limit. so it's not a huge issue.
Select and build an extraction list of chapter segments; join them all or keep them separate, export into any QuickTime codec available.
The latest Cinematize Pro 2 includes extraction of menu screen graphics, ability to extract subtitles on separate QuickTime layers, even select discrete audio tracks-- just a taste of a large list of thoughtful features worth discovering. Those not requiring such pro features can get a less expensive version called simply Cinematize 2, CP has been on my "short shelf" of must-have utilities for years now, and continues to gain power.
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