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rextilleon wrote on 3/24/2004, 4:28 PM
Not sure what you are asking--What do you mean convert a clip from DVD--DVD is not a format, its a form of media. Beyond that, forget about editing MPEG in Vegas--its not happening. Are you trying to rip files from an existing DVD---Please be clearer.
johnmeyer wrote on 3/24/2004, 10:00 PM
Extracting Video from a DVD image

VOB files
MarcLAw wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:08 AM
What I am trying to do is take a scene from a DVD and place it our company training film (with permission of course). I was wondering what the best way to do that was ...
Jsnkc wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:17 AM
If the DVD doesn't have macrovision on it then you can just do a analog capture from a DVD player. If it does have macrovision, then you will need to rip the DVD to your hard drive (I like DVD Decrypter for this) Then you can drop the VOB files on the Vegas timeline. Most likely you will have an AC3 audio trach which Vegas can't import so you will have to take the AC3 track and convert it to a PCM Wav file in order to be able to import it into Vegas. Then get everything synced up and render out the part you need to.
johnmeyer wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:23 AM
What I am trying to do is take a scene from a DVD and place it our company training film (with permission of course). I was wondering what the best way to do that was ...

Please click on the links in my last post. I gave you the answer there ...
MarcLAw wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:26 AM
Man. Okay, thanks. A little harder than I thought. :)
johnmeyer wrote on 3/25/2004, 1:05 PM
Man. Okay, thanks. A little harder than I thought. :)

You are correct. It doesn't have to be this way, but so far Sony hasn't acknowledged that media assets are rapidly migrating to DVD, and we have to be able to re-use those assets in future projects (yes, I know, the quality is degraded in going to MPEG2, and I should use the original DV footage, but that is often not possible).

Unfortunately, Sony is in a unique position compared to its competitors, because it has a media division that makes and distributes movies. Sony wants to protect this intellectual property and therefore, I think, is not likely to provide tools to extract and use the contents from unencrypted DVDs. I can guarantee that their competitors will. This will put Sony at a significant competitive disadvantage, and we, the users of their products will be similarly disadvantaged.

I would never be happier to wrong than I would on this one. It is a major issue, and you're not the only one coming up against it.
MarcLAw wrote on 3/25/2004, 1:49 PM
Weel, I used DVDecrypter to rip a chapter to my hard drive, but there was no audio along with it, and I could not find an obvious audio file to rip along with it... Any ideas on what to look for, or how to rip both a video and audio specific chapter using DVDecrypter? Thanks again for your help.
johnmeyer wrote on 3/25/2004, 2:31 PM
I give up. This question is answered in the links I gave. No point in helping, if you won't read what I wrote ...
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/25/2004, 6:08 PM
> If the DVD doesn't have macrovision on it then you can just do a analog capture from a DVD player. If it does have macrovision, then you will need to rip the DVD to your hard drive

I have found that some analog capture cards aren’t affected by macrovision. I have a Pinnacle DC10+, Pinnacle Deluxe AV/DV, and ADS Tech A/V Link and none of them are affected by macrovision. They capture anything you throw at them. I understand even the Canopus ADVC-100 has an option to disable macrovision. I find that capturing the DVD back to a DV AVI is the best way to edit the footage again. If you just want to include a clip without ending, then ripping it to MPEG2 is probably a good choice as well.

~jr