Ripping a scene from DVD by Lindley

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Ripping a scene from DVD

POSTED BY: LINDLEY
UPDATED: Saturday, November 6, 2004 16:08
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Saturday, November 6, 2004 7:55 AM

For my EVN: Firefly mod, I'd like to include the battle of Serenity Valley as an intro movie. This means ripping the scene from DVD.

Obviously this is a matter of questionable legality, but since I don't expect to profit from this use in any way, I'm going to assume for the moment that I can do it. Credit will be given to Fox and Joss in the documentation, etc.

My problem is that I have no experience ripping from DVDs, and almost no experience in movie editing, period. So I'm looking for (a) suggestions of a good ripping program, or (b) a volunteer to do this for me and send over the file.

There seem to be a lot of programs that can rip entire movies from DVD, but not so many that can extract a single scene. I use a Mac, so OSX programs are preferred, but I have virtual PC with Win95 on it, so anything for that can be managed as well.

If anyone who has experience would like to volunteer to do this for me, I'd like:
-The entire Serenity Valley sequence from "Serenity"
-At the end, the music bleeds into the "space derelict" scene. If possible, I'd like the music in its entirety, with the scene just going black for the last few seconds....or even stretching out Mal's haunted stare a bit to fill the time if possible.
-The format must be Quicktime-readable for the use I intend to put it to. .mov if possible, although other formats might work.

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 9:53 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

I believe you can use dvddecrypter to rip a single chapter off of a dvd. I haven't used it in a while though. It's also free software. It's windows not OSX, but it should run in your emulators...

www.dvddecrypter.com

I hope that helps.

~ Lost In The 'Verse

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 9:53 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 10:22 AM

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

That acutally looks like a sweet program. Wonder if I can convince the wife to let me use her laptop to get the scenes onto a disc where I can then use them on my desktop (sans DVD drive)?

-Taylor

The Uncharted Outlaw!
"I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
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Saturday, November 6, 2004 12:44 PM

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

I actually downloaded and test-trialed DVD Decrypter and it converts things into a .vob file. You're going to need another piece of software (so far as I can tell) to convert it from .vob to .wmv or .mpg. Right now I'm leaning toward downloading the eps in .rm format and using Boilsoft's RM Converter program to convert them to .mpg format.

-Taylor

The Uncharted Outlaw!
"I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
See my Firefly Store: http://www.cafepress.com/NorCalRiviera

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 12:46 PM

TRAGICSTORY

Head over to www.doom9.net THE place for your ripping needs. Not that I know this from experience...

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 1:15 PM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

yeah, I forgot about the file conversion thing. It's been a while since I've used the program. There's a decent intervideo program for ripping non-commercial dvds that will read and convert the .vob to mpg and avi, when I remember the name of it I'll post it.

~ Lost In The 'Verse

"About a year before we met, I spent 6 months on a moon where the primary form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to god. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled!"

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 1:15 PM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 1:38 PM

KESTRELSEMPAI

I use AutoGK (AutoGordianKnot) to convert the VOB files (what DVD Decrypter copies to my hard drive) to .avi files. AutoGK has a very good tutorial that walks you through what to do.
http://www.autogk.net/web/

After that, I open Windows Movie Maker (I'm on a laptop running Windows XP Office) and import the .avi files that AutoGK created and I'm ready to edit.

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 2:13 PM

ZOID

I recommend a vise (to hold the disc), a blow torch (to loosen the disc's protective plastic coating) and a pair of needle nose pliers (to separate the track you're targeting from the media). You'll get in a lot less legal trouble doing it the 'physical' way, although your mileage may vary in terms of video quality...

You said in another thread you plan on making this mod available for download. Please be careful, and consider F*x's hellhounds.

v/r,
zed

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 2:26 PM

CALHOUN

DVD Decrypter - Decrypt the whole thing

AutoGK - Convert the whole thing to an .avi of your choice and quality.

VirtualDubMod - Edit precisely(to the frame) and directstream copy.

Bobs your uncle!

I made a compilation of all the very best bits of Firefly all precisely edited. When I dont feel up to watching an entire episode I just watch all the best bits..

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 2:35 PM

LINDLEY

No luck with the Windows rippers I tried, but I got it to work using MacTheRipper to get the vob, and then OpenShiiva to convert to mp4.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to make the last couple of video frames black. There's *got* to be a simpler way to do that than decompressing with iMovie.....something as simple as deleting a few frames of video, I mean, while maintaining the audio.

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 2:37 PM

LINDLEY

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
You said in another thread you plan on making this mod available for download. Please be careful, and consider F*x's hellhounds.

v/r,
zed

I figure if I put Fox (and probably Universal too, for good measure) acknowledgement into the readme, flash a Fox logo during startup, and don't include more than 1-2 short actual video clips.....hopefully that should be enough.

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 4:08 PM

LINDLEY

I've found a program called QuickMix after much searching, which seems to do what I want.

However, when I delete a video segment, it plays as pure white rather than pure black. Any ideas how to get around this? I don't know any pure black movies.

EDIT: Turns out Quickmix knows how to handle pure black jpeg images! Problem solved. I even managed to incorperate a neat fade effect on Mal's face using Photoshop's brightness option. Looks good.

I like Quickmix. Not as streamlined as it might be, but easy and effective.

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