[Gregg Brent]

Thanks all for all the input! i went to https://www.videohelp.com/ and found DVDx2 free download and it worked like a charm. Great

[Gregg Brent]

Can you tell me what system your on and what version of AE you are using to do this?

I tried changing the extension on the PC to mpg. I was able to import it into AE but get no picture or sound. Blank.

When I tried it on the Mac, the icon changed to QT, but when Importing into AE I got the error stating “cannot play this movie because it has no duration”. But I am able to double click the file on the hard drive and it will open and play in QT window.

[Gregg Brent]

I downloaded the VirtualDub software but it won’t open the vob files in the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD. It says ‘no frames’ or something like that.

any free or shareware software that will extract the video from a DVD and make a QT or WMV?

[Gregg Brent]

great.. will give that a try!!.. thanks

i think i got what you’re saying. will i be able to have a color border around the shape on back and front?

[Gregg Brent]

So this is last version of Cleaner? hmmm.. maybe not worth getting and looking at a couple of differnent upgradeable options

thanks for all replys

[Gregg Brent]

hmm.. didn’t think of that (knoll flare)

any ideas on the little flicker?

Like in the “and skateboarding” title, the horizontal line comes in that then right at the end does a little flicker before disappearing. I really like that small detail

also like that puff of ‘smoke’ in first title

[Gregg Brent]

Thanks Dave for informative post…

I am now leaning towards the PC version. I’m in same situation that our IT doesn’t support Macs at all. I’m more comfortable working with Macs and can trouble shoot very easily on Macs, but that won’t be my job and will let IT group fix anything that don’t work.

The one question I have is, Our Macs are G5s, the PC’s are Dell P4 small desktop units (not even sure what RAM is or model, etc). Will this be an issue if I get the Adobe Video suite? Or do you need a pretty hefty powerhouse PC to run that software??

PS..My Dell 8400 at home with 1.5 gig of RAM causes such a racket when using AE6.5 and freezes up alot. Not sure why cuz it’s a new PC but others have said I need a Xeon processors.

[Gregg Brent]

Thanks.. will look into Flip4Mac.. sounds interesting.

will look into peak too. the sound edit stuff we would do would be simple fades and cross disolve stuff..

[Gregg Brent]

Thanks Mylenium,

That’s exactly the input i was looking for on this board.

one question: you stated “instead of re-rendering everything you can chop together AVI files based upon manipulations of their data structures (very much like quicktime Pro can do with MOVs). Simple things like replacing an audio track are a no-brainer this way”.

Not sure what this means but I think I need too. Can you direct me to where I can learn about doing this? Replacing audio, cutting down on re-rendering intrigues me. And yes, the powerpoint are cheesey!!!