Extracting Video Clips from DVD....

[Frosty 0]

Title is pretty self explanitory, I was wondering what are some good free programs for extracting video clips from DVDs?

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

A field I know plenty about. I've written a tutorial for DVD Rips -- what to get, the cracks as needed, and what to do. It's posted at my LJ, so hope you don't mind.

 

The method I most prefer is using DVD Shrink, TMPGEnc, Imago, and Xilisoft MPEG-AVI Converter -- don't worry, it sounds more complicated than it actually is. All but Xilisoft are freeware programs.

 

I'm open for any questions ya might have.

[AboveAverage484 0]

I noticed a considerable decrease in quality when using DVD Shrink. Do you know any way to counter that, i.e. making comp DVDs with no loss of quality from the source file?

 

Hope I'm not confusing you.

[Insane Bump Machine 0]

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm

[Ravenbomb 0]

either get a capture card/capture box (I use an ADS capture box), or get a video editing program that can work with digital video files and download DVD Decrypter

[Frosty 0]

A field I know plenty about. I've written a tutorial for DVD Rips -- what to get, the cracks as needed, and what to do. It's posted at my LJ, so hope you don't mind.

 

The method I most prefer is using DVD Shrink, TMPGEnc, Imago, and Xilisoft MPEG-AVI Converter -- don't worry, it sounds more complicated than it actually is. All but Xilisoft are freeware programs.

 

I'm open for any questions ya might have.

 

 

Ok, I've read your tutorial and they seem to have extremely large file sizes. I'm only doing this for a small webpage project I am doing in school so I don't need, nor do I have the space to be using massive clips. I'd like something that was a respectable quality but not not massive to upload.

 

Also thanks to everyone who replied.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

Ok, I've read your tutorial and they seem to have extremely large file sizes. I'm only doing this for a small webpage project I am doing in school so I don't need, nor do I have the space to be using massive clips. I'd like something that was a respectable quality but not not massive to upload.

 

Also thanks to everyone who replied.

 

Hm... Does your clip require sound? And, of course, how long is it?

 

In my recent acquisitions of some Blade clips for an upcoming mvid, ya can be damn sure I'm not ripping the whole movie. I use the set frames option to get my clips, and disable sound (no sound = smaller sizes).

 

After getting your clip, if it is too big, make the res smaller in the AVI-MPEG Converter - ie, 592x320 for widescreen - and set 'Same Quality' to false. This will lessen the size.

[Downhome 0]

If you are going to rip a clip from a DVD, I don't know of any way to do so without ending up with a file of at least a somewhat large size. Just a few minutes of video/audio can be like 250 MB.

 

Do what Yuna is saying, about using DVD Shrink, for the most part. Follow her guide to the point where it explains how to take the video, and use the sliders to chose the start and in points of the clip you want to take from the video, then without changing the audio, go to backup.

 

You'll be given a .VOB file, and most programs will not let you edit it. Download Virtual Dub VOB (the normal Virtual Dub program will not let you work with .VOB files). Load the .VOB file, go to video, then to compression. Chose the video codec, then save as an .AVI, and you'll get a much smaller file to work with.

 

That's pretty much all that you need to do.

[chaosrage 0]

Why do I get an error message if I put a blank Maxwell DVD in my GoVideo DVD Recorder? Can it only play certain kinds of DVDs?

[chaosrage 0]

And to answer my own question, it's because it's a DVD-R. I need a DVD+R. I didn't realize there was a DVD+R. I thought - was just a hyphen.

 

How big is the change in quality between 1 hour record setting and 6 hour record setting? Is it as big as SP to EP on a VHS?