Ripping VC1 Blu-Ray to Edit

I’m trying to rip a Blu-Ray and transcode it to an edit file for use on my Mac. The video is encoded with VC1 at a frame rate of 23.972 (not 23.976, which I found odd).

I’ve tried making an MKV and extracting the VC1 track, dual-booting into windows and encoding from there to a quicktime (using TMPGEnc, for which my trial period has now expired). However, there appear to be many duplicated frames throughout the video.

I’ve also tried to skip transcoding and just edit from the demuxed VC1 track on Windows. However, Adobe CC doesn’t seem to like the rate of 23.972 and everything just shows up either all black or all green.

So what’s the best way to go about transcoding and editing the video?

Did you try changing the rate first? Maybe use tsMuxer for that, then send it to AdobeCC?

Just tried it. Tried demuxing, remuxing to .ts, and remuxing .m2ts with tsMuxer. Interestingly enough, tsMuxer reads the file as being 23.976. Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects both won’t accept any of the files. A message appears saying the file is either damaged or unsupported. I’ve tried with a few different rips of VC1 video so I don’t think the file damaged or corrupt.

You’re correct that Adobe won’t let you edit VC1. You’ll need to convert it using other software (ideally to lossless).

Is there any particular software you recommend?

I probably used Handbrake, but I don’t know what is ideal.

Handbrake seemed to do the trick. Should suffice for now, I’ll see if these “lossless” settings really are that.