Hi, I want to edit down parts of 20-25 Jimmy Wang Yu movies and make best of
compilations for personal use. I understand I will need a video capture card
of some kind to transfer vhs tapes to my PC.

In the meantime, I'd like to get started with DVD's, so I need to know:

programs that can rip the DVD using my DVD-rom drive and I'm assuming a program
to covert files to some type of editable format (mpeg?).

then...

What are some good programs I can use to edit the files down to just the action
sequences I want?

I'm not a pro (obviously..) so if ya'll can reccomend some inexpensive
solutions, that would be great.

Thanks in advance!


STRATEGY

Thats all sorts of copyrights you are going to be stomping through!

DVD -> DVD Decrypter -> DVD2AVI -> AVISynth -> VirtualDub -> AVI File
(thats the way I would do it)

You'll have to do some reading, www.doom9.org has some decent tutorials.

I guess, technically...

Isn't it the equivalent of my cutting pictures of John Travolta out of
magazines I own and taping them to a piece of construction paper and hanging it
on the wall?

btw, I do NOT have a homemade John Travolta collage, Bruce Lee maybe..

Thank you!

quick questions:

why AVI?
What is "AVISynth -> VirtualDub ->" ??


Thanks!


STRATEGY

Lau Kar Fai 510 wrote:
AVISynth is a frameserver, it can be used to convert on the fly from the DVD
MPEG stream to an AVI file without any intermediary files or conversions.
As an AVI file, you can then use VDub to view the movie frame by frame and
select & export the frames you want to keep.

"Chimera" <nospam@thanks.com> wrote ...


Would you mind explaining this a bit further? I, too, would like to rip a
couple of DVDs. And no, these would not be copyright violations. One is a
DVD that a friend burned containing some video he shot of his family (and I
want to re-edit for him, but the original source material is no longer
available). And I'd like to steal (yes, I guess this is stealing) the FBI
warning off the front of a rented DVD (surely they wouldn't have a big
problem with me doing THAT).

What software is available for "ripping" a DVD? Surely there's a way to do
this. Your explanation above is pretty cryptic. Elaborate, please?

Randy

Chimera wrote:

What do you use in AVISynth to open an MPEG2 file? I've tried a couple
of methods, but they all seemed to require creating some temporary file,
or had a very long delay before frameserving.

Currently I open with VirtualDub-MPEG2, frameserve to AVISynth for some
processing, and then back to VirtualDub again for filtering.


Thanks.
-WD

Chimera wrote:

True, but for personal home use, it is legal.

Technically, everything created is considered by law to be copyrighted at the
instant of creation. But that's nitpicking. ;->

Randy Brown wrote: