Anyone know of good software to just rip particular scenes from DVDs

[Shin Johnpv]

I have a do a promo for a tv station in one of my classes and I need clips from the shows, I have some of them on DVD and want to grab a few 5 - 10 second clips from them

does anyone know of any good programs that are easy to just grab that and not have to rip the whole dvd

[Mykozo]

Hmmm. Not off of the top of my head. Don't any of the workstations in your class have the ability to digitize video from an external source? By that I mean, do you have any comps with video capture cards, so that you can hook a DVD player into them and capture just the scenes you need? If so, then that is your answer. Let me know what you are working with.

[Shin Johnpv]

Hmmm. Not off of the top of my head. Don't any of the workstations in your class have the ability to digitize video from an external source? By that I mean, do you have any comps with video capture cards, so that you can hook a DVD player into them and capture just the scenes you need? If so, then that is your answer. Let me know what you are working with.

I don't think we do, our teacher gave us info on a freeware (i believe it was freeware) mac program but there doesnt seem to be a PC version of it

and theres only like 2 mac labs at the school everything else is PC, only stuff really done on mac is video editing and sound stuff and those labs are almost always full with classes plus I dont want to lug all my dvds into the city

I'll have to ask around I have to imagine we do have capture cards but I also have to imagine that the quality captured from them would be less than dvd quality

[Mykozo]

You imagine correctly. Obviously you are going to lose some quality in any ADC or DAC, but if you capture at 1:1 resolution, then the quality difference between your source and your dig are really going to be negligable. What I'm saying is that the average-joe will not be able to tell the difference. I have to dig stuff from DVD's and *gasp* VHS' all the time for stuff that goes to air, and the clients can either never tell, or don't give a shit.

[Shin Johnpv]

If I can't find any software over the weekend then I'll have to see if we do

thanks

[Shin Johnpv]

Update DVD Shrink a freeware program was exactly what I needed it

it has a re-author feature lets you pick what you want to rip so I grabbed the few seconds of scenes I needed and now I just need to convert the VOBs to mpegs or quicktimes

[MechDeus]

now I just need to convert the VOBs to mpegs or quicktimes

Right click and select rename (and make sure file extensions are shown from the tools menu). Change .vob to .mpg.

Man, conversion is rough.

[Shin Johnpv]

I did not think of that I ended up using something else and I can't remember what it was now

[MechDeus]

.vob is essentially mpeg2, so as long as you have an mpeg combiner you can rip any DVD by simply copying the four (eight if it's dual-layer) major .vob files, renaming them to .mpg, and then combining them. Occasionally they'll do something screwy to it like having different sound layers for each file(something like that) which makes it so that they can't be recombined, but that's pretty rare from my experience.

Regardless, any time you want a clip you can just copy the .vob, rename it and toss it into Windows Movie Maker or Premiere or whatever.