Lost Video Island

[SuperKC]

Okay, so I am attempting (rather poorly) to do a vid for the crossover challenge. I am having trouble because, well, I am lazy and I haven't figured out how to get the video from my DVD onto my computer for editing.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[SuperKC]

No one knows? I'm doomed.

[Ringwench]

Do you have a DVD rom on your computer? If you do you can download programs called DVD shrink or DVD decrypter (both free) and rip clips that you want. It ends up ripping it into a huge folder with a bunch of different files in it, all you really need is the VOB file. Just change the extension from VOB (at least I think that's what it is, it definately starts with V) and change it to mpeg format and it will be viddable.

Hope this helps. If you download the programs and need more specific help with them, PM me and I'll check them out when I get home to give you more info.

[SuperKC]

Thanks I'll try it!

[lostzilla]

Any DVD ripping program? I used No.1 DVD ripper and it sucked.

[BA5763]

I tried a couple of Ripping programs, but finally gave up and started DLing Torrents. Sorry, I'm not much help, am I?

[lostzilla]

No, but thanks anyway

[Enchirito]

I ripped my own Family Guy clip for my crossover entry. I used DVD Decrypter and Dr. Divx.

[Jaime]

ok, i know this hasnt been posted in for a long time but how do you change VOB files to MPEG?

[AmyMac]

ok, so I took my dvd and did the decrpyter thing and I have these vob files...my question, how do I convert it to mpeg format so that I can use it to make vids? i don't know anything about this stuff and I'm really lost here.

[Polarbear]

I use dvd x

http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

you can rip it straight from the dvd aswell

[Stealth]

Hey people,
I was in the same situation and after literally about 5 days of trying different things I finally found a process that works. I got it from this site :
http://web.telia.com/~u31220486/dvd2avi/dvd2avi.htm . I tried a bunch of the one step things and none work. I also tried the whole .vob to .mpeg thing- which works for playing, but not for editing.

Anyway, the links to the apps which are free on that site are kinda screwed up, but if you look long enough you should find them. Really after the first one you get into it and its just about an hour or so of queing up processes and then a couple days strait of rendering an encodeing for the whole season. The real good thing is you are stuck to makeing them into divx or anything. I did all mine to DV-AVI which is perfect for editing (make sure you have at least 100 gigs free if you plan to do that though )

~stealth

[LOSTgirl1616]

hey when u pip stuff it stays on the disc as well too it just gets transfered to the comp right?