Video making software...help?!? by Angeldove

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Video making software...help?!?

POSTED BY: ANGELDOVE
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 13:40
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Sunday, April 1, 2007 4:26 PM

Hi, I am in need of software that will do the following and I was looking for some suggestions:

Rip individual chapters
Rip episodic
Rip encrypted

Then, basically be able to pull different chapters and scenes into one video, or just a compilation.

I'm teaching the Serenity novel (to my high school intensive reading class), and want to show scenes from Firefly after we've read the flashbacks in the novelization. For a lot of the River/Simon scenes, I’m going to have to pull from both the Serenity Pilot, and Safe…I’m limited on class time, so changing disks, and searching….you get what I mean, it takes too much time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I just need to know that I’m spending my money on something that does what I need it to do, and for all you fanviders, I figure you might have some suggestions for me.

Thanks so much for any help you may be able to provide, I’m really looking forward to teaching this lesson to my kids!

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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Sunday, April 1, 2007 4:39 PM

GAMBIT3

Hello,

On all these, I won't be providing links, since in some countries, like the US, it might be illegal to link to some of these programs. You'll have to google for them, but I don't believe they'll be hard to find.
For ripping chapters, I recommend DVD Decrypter.
For ripping whole DVDs I would recommend you look for DVD Shrink.
For editing the resulting VOBs, I'd recommend Sony Movie Studio + DVD, which can be had for around $60.

If you have any more questions, let me know and I'll see waht I can answer. I'm not a pro by any stretch but I do some video editing as a hobby.

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Sunday, April 1, 2007 8:11 PM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Hey AngelDove, I got into video editing a bit last summer, and posted a pretty detailed write up on the tools I've been using (DVD Shrink, Xilisoft, and Windows Movie Maker) here: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=12&t=24275 Let me know if you have any questions on it, but I think it should be fairly straight forward to get the scenes you want. In fact, if you can play the scenes on a computer rather than burning them to a DVD, you may even be able to get away with just DVD Shrink, and skip all the steps after that.

Good luck!

~CK

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Sunday, April 1, 2007 8:13 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Since US law has absolutely no jurisdiction where I am:

DVD::Rip ( http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/) is a nice frontend to transcode ( http://www.transcoding.org) if you're on a non-windows system. There's some DVD decryption libraries (e.g. libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html) that you can install that transcode will work with transparently. Worked great every time I've used it anyway and it has pretty much all the features that you want. Not to mention the ever helpful, define the output file size feature

If you have a reasonable package management system, simply installing DVD::Rip would install all the other things (except possibly libdvdcss) auto-magically.

If you're on a windows system, I know that there /is/ *free* stuff out there that does what you want. I can't recall what I used when I had windows (long time OSX user), but they /are/ out there.

When it comes to putting all the chapters, etc together into one file, I think transcode can do it, but I'm not sure that dvd::rip provides a nice way to that feature (I've never wanted to do this before).

avidemux ( http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/) is an avi/mpeg editing program. Haven't used it myself, but it's there. It has a windows port as well. It has been advertised that it can splice movies together. It's free btw.

Regarding the legalities, you can get away with *a lot* if you're doing something for educational purposes only. IANAL, but if you do _not_ sell nor distribute the material, I don't think it'll be a problem. Though if you want to be thorough (and are brave), I suggest checking your local listings for details.

Then again, I'm an advocate of ignoring stupid laws. But, whatever we say, it is you who will decide how much risk you want to take.

One bit of advice though. If you rip clips from dvd's, when you bring them to school to play, bring the original dvd's as well. That way, if people get ornery, you can prove that you didn't "steal" them. But, that you are just saving class time by not having to switch dvd's, search for stuff, etc.

EDIT: Are you going for a DVD output? If so, avidemux can provide suitable mpegs. But, to get those into a DVD format, one needs a DVD authoring tool such as dvdauthor ( http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/). It has GUI frontends as well.

But, as CaliforniaKaylee said, playback using a computer (hopefully a laptop) would make things a hell of a lot easier.

At any rate, I *really* need sleep. I hope that this all made sense

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 1:40 PM

ANGELDOVE

Thank you for getting back to me so soon. All this info is helpful and I'll let you know how it goes.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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