Exporting scenes from DVD?

[George Wing]

I use Ulead’s VideoStudio 9 (soon to be version 10) to “Import from DVD” — it can import entire Titles, or specific Chapters. You could import the chapter(s), cut off the “excess”, and output one mpeg section. The software will even let you re-author the “kept” video into a new DVD.

Ulead also has other software that imports from DVD in the same manner — MovieFactory 4 and 5, and MediStudio Pro 8.

You could download their Trial version (keep in mind the Trials might not support Dolby Digital Audio, but the FULL versions support and encode Dolby Digital audio).

Regards,
George

[Pat Furrie]

George,

Thank you for the suggestion.

All of our DVDs have only one chapter, which means we’d have to import an entire 30 minute newscast in order to get just the relevant couple of minutes. Am really hoping to find something that can grab just the part of the disk we need without having to import anything extra. That should make it much faster (only having to import 2 minutes instead of 30).

Next?

Pat

[Eric Pautsch]

I use this:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=MPEG_StreamClip

But its mac only

Try Videohelp’s tool section and find anything you need:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools

[Wts(jmanz)]

Pat,

Procoder from Canopus would allow you to import a dvd (which have VOB files) and while in the source tab scrub to the in and out point and set the target to then output the file in whatever format you want–even burning back out to dvd.

jim

[Noah Kadner]

Just out of curiosity- how do they record to DVD? Does it first get captured and then exported to DVD or is it on a direct to DVD recorder? I ask because a far simpler system would be to capture to DV or at least direct to hard drive. Then you’d have a much much cleaner, much much easier to re-edit system. It could even be setup to run completely automatically and organize itself by date and time. DVD archiving is just that- archiving. If you are wanting to go back and re-use material often, DVD is IMHO worse than VHS because it’s not what it’s designed to do.

Noah

[Pat Furrie]

What version of ProCoder are you using? I downloaded the trial version (1.25.15.0), but VOB is not listed as a source type, and doesn’t even show up anywhere in help. Reading the online documentation for ProCoder Express, ProCoder 2.0, and ProCoder Statino, they each list “Source Formats” but DVD and VOB aren’t included.

Pat

[Pat Furrie]

The DVD recording it done straight to DVD from a live feed of the newscast, recorded on a consumer stand-alone DVD recorder. This is primarly done for archiving of the newscasts, as you pointed out. It is simple and straight forward, without any need to have an intermediate step. On those occasions when we need to dub off something from a DVD, it could be many months from now. We don’t want to have that much programming sitting on a hard drive waiting to the possiblity of someone wanting a dub of it. And the use of the dub are presumed to be for non-broadcast use, so quality isn’t the issue, other than making clean in and out points to the segment.

Pat

[Wts(jmanz)]

Pat,

The trial version of Procoder you are using did not support vob file conversion. Procoder 2 will transcode unencrypted dvd’s/vob files.

Jim

[David Roth weiss]

And, as Jim has determined, it can be run on either PC or MAC now.

[Wts(jmanz)]

It gets even a notch better. When you boot up on the Mac side, you can create your content with LiveType/Final Cut/Motion 2/etc. If you format your PC to Fat, then you can read and write directly from with OS X to the Windows partition. I personally would format in NTFS (for a number of reasons, especially file size limitations of FAT), you can still read the files on the Mac side. However, with MacDrive6, you can read AND write to the Mac partition while in Windows. In other words, you take the content you created with Mac apps while in Windows and directly access them for use (in this case, to encode with Procoder). This eliminates the potential need to have an external drive to migrate files back and forth.

Jim