Capturing a scene from another DVD

dirtyomelet wrote on 7/23/2005, 7:45 AM

Hello Everyone.

I have the “Ultimate” DVD to prepare for my family project. Last year, I had made a DVD using Vegas Movie Studio and the DVD Architect. Unfortunately, I screwed up and I deleted the working files thinking that I would not need them because I put them on a DVD.

Now I need to pull some video from the DVD I made to add to my project. Is there a way to capture certain scenes from my original DVD and drop them into my new project?

Many thanks for you help!!!

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Elmo27376 wrote on 7/23/2005, 11:36 AM

Here is one idea that I have used: Connect the DVD player's output to your DV camcorder input and record it to tape. (If you can feed through on the firewire from the camcorder to the computer that is easier; mine wouldn't let me do that so I just recorded to tape.)

Then, as usual just capture the shots .

jimmyz wrote on 7/23/2005, 3:22 PM

copy the dvd to your hard drive then rename the vob files
to mpeg2 and you should the be able to convert to avi then edit from
there.

Elmo27376 wrote on 7/24/2005, 9:30 AM

jimmyz,
I'm not familiar with this technique; would you explain how this is done? I copied the DVD to the HD and have many files identified as: Video_TS.BUP, Video_TS.IFO, Video_TS.VOB. This sequence repeats from 1-21

Do I just do an ordinary Rename function to mpeg2 giving each VOB file a name like One mpeg2, etc?

Then how do I convert each mpeg2 file to an .avi file?

IanG wrote on 7/25/2005, 1:26 AM

Have a look at VirtualDub-MPEG2. This will convert MPEG2 to avi, and I'm fairly sure it will work direct from the .vob files without you having to rename anything.

Ian G.

ChristerTX wrote on 7/26/2005, 1:53 PM

Should I expect any loss of quality going from MPEG -> AVI -> MPEG?

IanG wrote on 7/26/2005, 2:06 PM

There'll be a loss of quality going from MPEG to anything - it's a lossy format. You'll have to try it to find out whether it's acceptable.

Ian G.

dirtyomelet wrote on 7/26/2005, 3:43 PM

There has to be an easier way. Perhaps a seperate software? Will Nero do it?

Chienworks wrote on 7/26/2005, 6:15 PM

The "easier way" would be to open up last year's projects and edit from there, using your original .avi source files. That assumes, of course, that you still have them.

dirtyomelet wrote on 7/26/2005, 6:27 PM

That would way too easy. But like I stated, I deleted all files thinking that I would not need them anymore because I had a complete DVD. I know, I know...Im such a block head.

The only thing I can do now is put my ego in my pocket and search for help.

Former user wrote on 7/27/2005, 10:22 AM

You say you deleted the files, did you erase the original tapes as well?

Dave T2

Elmo27376 wrote on 7/27/2005, 10:52 AM

Thanks for grandsons. Here is a program to convert DVD images to .avi files. Go to ImToo.com. Download ImTOO DVD Ripper. Please note, this is a shareware program that allows 5 minutes of your source to be encoded to .avi. The full version of the program is $35.00 and is available at ImTOO. Install it, open it, insert the DVD, type a location for the file and click DVD. After opening source video files, select Settings from the Menu bar. Clicking on “Output Settings” will bring you to various configuration settings for the output .avi file. In order to obtain standard .avi output, in the 3rd dropdown box in the left-hand column, select “Microsoft Video 1.” On the main screen, the output section allows the user to select additional options regarding the output of the file. Format should be listed as AVI. Additionally, user should select desired output location. Now, click on the Encode button (this is a button that appears as a red circle in the main window.) The file can be opened in the Media pool ready for editing.

dirtyomelet wrote on 7/27/2005, 6:30 PM

Elmo:
I hereby declare you the 2005 Guru of All Gurus!

That did the job. It took a while to figure it out but it worked just fine.

Thank you so much for your help.