Exporting scenes from DVD?

[Aanarav Sareen]

Pat,
Check out Adobe Premiere Elements 2. Version 2.0 introduced the ability to capture from DVD and may be suitable for what you are trying to accomplish.

[Wts(jmanz)]

Edius as well as several other NLE allow capture from unencrypted dvd’s. That is certainly an option, but it would require you to transcode the entire disc, then cut/edit what you want, and then output the clip you want. Procoder will allow you to look into the vob file, mark your in and out, and then if you want, set your output back to dvd and it will transcode that segment and output direct to disc or mpeg file (whichever you want). If you use the direct to disc method, then the audio will be mpeg1layer2, which should play in most set top players (all computers can handle it), but some older NTSC machines might not.

Jim

[Karim Daire]

Hi,

just had the same problem since I get DVDs all the time with the comment “use this, its digital!”. I tried some rippers/transcoders and MPEG-Streamclip for MAC is great and exports about anything you wish for from a VOB (best of all it features quicktime and you can easily set ins/outs and even cut sequences).
Anyway, workflow is best for me digitizing directly from the YUV-Signals of a good DVD-Player to AVID, can’t see much of a difference and have less transcoding-Artifacts.

Karim

[Pat Furrie]

Thanks Karim.

While we do have some Avids, we’d prefer a solution that would be applicable to any computer in the building, with no special hardware requirements other than having a DVD drive.

Pat

[Wts(jmanz)]

The solution that karim posted doesn’t require Avid to accomplish. Any dvd (set top) player hooked up for capture would work. It does require you to capture the disc and edit it later, but it’s certainly a relatively straight forward way of getting the task done. It’s not very fast however of finding a specific clip and extracting that.

If Procoder isn’t a route you want to try (which works great for this–I do it all the time for talks I give), you might look into StreamClip (freeware). On a PC you would need Quicktime 7 and buy the $19.95 mpeg decoder from Apple to get it all to work, but it can take your dvd content and like you export/cut/split sequences and convert them to other file formats. For about $20 you should be set.

Jim