Importing film clips?

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Hi,
Is there any way to take a DVD movie (a regular film) and use just a clip of
it in a WMM movie? My football coach husband wants to use some clips from
recent films in a slideshow he's making for his kids. Thanks for your help!!
 
Hi Kerri
You need to "rip" the video from the DVD. (Google for DVD Ripping or DVD
Ripper)
The ripped video can usually be done in different formats depending upon the
software but some programs will only rip it to MPEG2, as that's the native
filetype for DVD's, which would then need to be converted to AVI for import
into Movie Maker.
Many if not most DVD ripping software will NOT rip commercial DVD's as that
leads to copyright infringement. In fact if the clips your husband wants to
use are from commercial DVD's he "technically" can't.
 
The application you want is called DVDDecrypter, however it is generally no
longer available unless you know someone who has it. :) But even when you
can get it, it's not as easy to use as WMM in terms of being super-easy to
use and understand. It is a bit more technical and you might need other
applications as well to end up with files that will be importable to WMM.
DVDDecrypter will rip a DVD to either raw DVD files or a .iso image, but I'm
not sure where you'd go after that to get the video into WMM. Somehow you'd
need an .AVI file or some other format. I'm sure someone knows the answer...

Ken
 
Another alternative is to hook up a DVD player via a coaxial cable to TV
capture card - and then capture the signal in WMM... it's what I do as the
DVD/VCR player & SAT box are all cabled to the one TV capture card... which
is tuned on the PC...
 
Hey Mac
Out of curiosity are you successful in capturing through this type of analog
connection every time using WMM?

I only ask because so many are not able to make this work so maybe there is
something you are doing differently to have success with audio and video
together and properly sync'd.

What is the hardware manufacturer for the capture card?

-Wojo
 
Hi Wojo,

TV capture card is an oldish Hauppauge WIN-TV-USB-FM device -

www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_usbfm.html

Video signal comes in over USB, sound via Line-In, from the this device.
Only input to the device is a simple coaxial connection, which comes from
the Antenna Out on the "hub" of my home A/V system ie a DVD/VCR combo (which
is also connected to an amplifier, SAT box and TV). To get the signal I need
to switch the DVD/VCR combo to L-1

http://202.186.86.35/audio/printerfriendly.asp?file=/2003/10/9/audiofile/06jvcdvd&sec=audiofile

With this set up I can capture terrestrial and Satellite TV, DVD (DVD-Video,
DVD-R (Video format), CD, VCD/SVCD and CD-R/RW - only ever tried DVD-Video &
CD Music though), and VHS (VHS with mixed success - see below).Quality is
usually more than I require, so I usually capture at max 340kbps (320*240,
30fps - PAL system, although I could go much higher at 640*480).

With some (mostly newer) prerecorded VHS tapes I can get audio but the video
freezes - I have had help here before and determined that this is probably
due to Macrovision encoding. Home recorded VHS works fine though.

I also use WME to broadcast (on a pull basis) some stuff from these sources.

In short, everything captures fine except some newer VHS tapes. I did have
to fiddle quite a bit with AMCAP to get the video and audio signals working
first off though.

Mac
 
Hi Kerri,

I remember one software can be fit for your requirement, but i forgot
the name. But if you want to add video clips to photo slideshow,
photo2dvd is a good choice.
 
Wojo said:
Hi Kerri
You need to "rip" the video from the DVD. (Google for DVD Ripping or DVD
Ripper)
The ripped video can usually be done in different formats depending upon
the software but some programs will only rip it to MPEG2, as that's the
native filetype for DVD's, which would then need to be converted to AVI
for import into Movie Maker.
Many if not most DVD ripping software will NOT rip commercial DVD's as
that leads to copyright infringement. In fact if the clips your husband
wants to use are from commercial DVD's he "technically" can't.
Click to expand...

Why would the ripped clips have to be converted from MPG to AVI format
before importing them into Movie Maker? My experience indicates that Movie
Maker accepts *either* format.

David Emerling
 
David said:
Why would the ripped clips have to be converted from MPG
to AVI format before importing them into Movie Maker? My
experience indicates that Movie Maker accepts *either*
format.
Click to expand...
=================================
Movie Maker chokes up on some .mpgs and
even if you manage to use them in a project
they could still cause issues later. Why take
the chance?

Have a look a the following article:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-MPEG2.html

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
 
Thanks for the info Mac, maybe it will help others that are trying to
capture via analog connections although they are quickly going away.
Wal-Mart in my area, maybe everywhere I don't know, has signs up saying they
are dropping VHS tapes.
-Wojo

Mac said:
Hi Wojo,

TV capture card is an oldish Hauppauge WIN-TV-USB-FM device -

www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_usbfm.html

Video signal comes in over USB, sound via Line-In, from the this device.
Only input to the device is a simple coaxial connection, which comes from
the Antenna Out on the "hub" of my home A/V system ie a DVD/VCR combo
(which is also connected to an amplifier, SAT box and TV). To get the
signal I need to switch the DVD/VCR combo to L-1

http://202.186.86.35/audio/printerfriendly.asp?file=/2003/10/9/audiofile/06jvcdvd&sec=audiofile

With this set up I can capture terrestrial and Satellite TV, DVD
(DVD-Video, DVD-R (Video format), CD, VCD/SVCD and CD-R/RW - only ever
tried DVD-Video & CD Music though), and VHS (VHS with mixed success - see
below).Quality is usually more than I require, so I usually capture at max
340kbps (320*240, 30fps - PAL system, although I could go much higher at
640*480).

With some (mostly newer) prerecorded VHS tapes I can get audio but the
video freezes - I have had help here before and determined that this is
probably due to Macrovision encoding. Home recorded VHS works fine though.

I also use WME to broadcast (on a pull basis) some stuff from these
sources.

In short, everything captures fine except some newer VHS tapes. I did have
to fiddle quite a bit with AMCAP to get the video and audio signals
working first off though.

Mac
Click to expand...
 
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