Editing Avi Files???????????

Shadowstorm wrote on 1/27/2005, 6:46 PM

I am trying to edit some scenes from the DVD of the movie Titanic. If I take the movie and convert it to a avi file, will I be able to open it with the sony screenblast software and edit certain scenes together. Any help would be appreciated..

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/27/2005, 7:01 PM

First, it's like the DVD is copy-protected and you won't be able to copy it. But, if you can, how are you planning to convert it to an AVI file?

If you plug your DVD player into an AV bridge (like the ADS Pyro AV Link), which saves AV files as DV-AVIs, you may be able to do it, assuming the copy protection doesn't scramble your image. You might also be able to pass-through a miniDV camcorder or record from a DVD player to a DV cam. These things may produce an editable file.

Ripping the DVD by putting it on your disk drive and just converting the DVD/MPEG files probably will not work though.

How's that for a non-answer?

Shadowstorm wrote on 1/27/2005, 9:26 PM

They have DVD to avi converters out there. They also have DVD rippers.

Gatman wrote on 1/28/2005, 11:04 AM

It sounds like from your response you already know how to get the movie off the DVD and into an AVI file. My only suggestion would be to try and split the AVI file up a bit. Since Titanic is about 3 hours long you're looking at a 39gig file (13gig per hour of AVI). I'm not sure what would happen if you dropped a whopper like that onto the timeline!

Why do you want to convert it to AVI? Since the DVD video is already mpeg2, why don't you just drop that onto the timeline and edit it? It will be a smaller file and might reduce the amount of encoding you need to do: It might get re-encoded to Sony's mpeg2 for DVD, but it will save you converting it to AVI and then back to mpeg2 (assuming you're going to put in on a DVD of course).

Regards,

Gary