Capture DVD movie to Movie Maker

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I have video that a friend has transferred from his camcorder to a DVD. He
has since sold the camcorder. All I want to do is to edit this DVD using
moving maker. From what I can tell by searching the internet is that I can
capture Video to Movie Maker if I have the camcorder. Can I capture the
video to Movie Maker straight from the DVD? I have a DVD burner, Windows XP
and plenty of RAM and Hard Drive space. Is this possible?
 
What you could do is attach the DVD player to a DV camcorder, record the DVD
to DV tape, then capture the tap as you would normally.
 
BearHawk said:
I have video that a friend has transferred from his camcorder to a DVD. He
has since sold the camcorder. All I want to do is to edit this DVD using
moving maker. From what I can tell by searching the internet is that I
can
capture Video to Movie Maker if I have the camcorder. Can I capture the
video to Movie Maker straight from the DVD? I have a DVD burner, Windows
XP
and plenty of RAM and Hard Drive space. Is this possible?
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It is termed as "pass through"
You require that the DV camcorder has the option for
DV-In/DV-Out (NOT all have both options)
This involves connecting the analog in/out to the cam
and then the firewire/1394 from cam to PC, and then
use "Capture" option.
Conversely, a better option is to copy to a HD folder
the Mpeg VOB files from the DVD.
VOB files are a specific type of mpeg2, of which
WMM is not compatible with, so you will need a
conversion tool (type: "stoik imaging" in google
or "vidomi", or visit www.download.com )
Convert the VOB files to AVI and WMM will then
happily edit and produce.
 
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