ok here is what i want to do. i want to take roughly 30 seconds from a scene from one of my dvds and use it in a presentation for school. so the problem is that i have the dvd, but i have no idea how to go about extracting the 30 second i want. can any one help me out.
I've done this using DVD Decryptor and TMPGEnc MPEG Editor.
1. With the DVD in a player (or burner), run Decryptor making sure the DVD drive with the DVD in it is in the drop-down "Source" box. Decryptor will read the DVD and make a list of files, typically VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_)1_0.IFO, some .BUP (backup) files, and several .VOB files that have the movie information in them. YOur clip will be in one of these.
2. Decryptor will then generate its own location for the output for the DVD. So for the DVD of "Dracula" on drive C:, you'll see C:\Dracula\VIDEO_TS. Decryptor will make the folder "Dracula" and subfolder "VIDEO_TS" where these files will show up. You can use the browse button and put them anywhere elsa; just remember where they are, and that you'll have enough disk space for the entire movie.
3. Run Decryptor. The short name for all of this is "ripping a DVD.
4. That done, start up TMPGEnc MPEG Editor. Click the "Start New PRoject" button, the first one under the "Project Menu" area at the right, near the top.
5. Click on the "Add File" button and up will come a standard Windows "Open" dialog box. First change the "Types of Files" drop-down box at the bottom of the box to read "All Files (*.*), otherwise the VOB files with your DVD movie will be invisible.
6. You can use the "Look in" dropdown box to navigate to that "VIDEO_TS" folder (C:\Draculs\VIDEO_TS, remember?), and all the files from the DVD will show up.
7. Double-click on the first VOB file you find. It may take a while, but that file will be loaded into the TMPGEnc MPEG program, and the very beginning will be displayed in the "Add Clip" dialog box. Most of the box will be taken up by a still picture of what's at the beginning of the clip. Below this box will be some statistics (including frame number and time so you can figure out where you are and get back to that point), a strip of small still pictures representing frames (not consecutive but sampled) from the movie, and below this a number of buttons for doing some work.
8. You can use the slider, or the VCR-like controls to go forward and back in the file you've chosen to get to the starting point of the clip you want to make. Once there, click the "Set as Start Frame" button. The slide indicator will move to this position.
9. As above, find the end of the clip, and click the "Set as End Frame" button. The clip you want is now marked.
10. Click the "OK" button, and you're back at the screen where you first added a file with the "Add File" button. Click the "Output" button at the top of the screen.
11. A new dialog box with a black screen appears. TMPGEnc constructs an output file name in the folder for you; use the "Browse" button to put the output somewhere else.
12. Click on "Output Setting" and set the following: Output Target: Common MPEG file;Output Stream Type: System (Video + Audeo); Image Quality: 100. Click on "OK" to return to this black screen and look carefully at the extension TMPGEnc has chosen: it should be .mpg. Click on "Start Output" and TMPGEnc will generate am .mpg file of your selected clip.
If the clip you want is near the end of the movie, you might try skipping a few of the earlier (lower-numbered) .VOB files, but you could midd what you want.
If the clip you want spans two VOB files, add the first one as above, and find the start of the clip and mark that. Leave the end marking at the end of this VOB file where it is. Now go back and add the second VOB file, leaving the start where it is (at the beginning of the vob), and mark the end of the clip in this one. When you click on "OK", the window you get back to will have both clips listed. Clicking on "Output," and following along as above will produce an mpg file made from the two VOB files from the start marking on the first one, to the end marking on the second one.
Now you have an mpg file of the clip you wanted frrom the DVD of the movie.
sounds good im gonna try it out here tonight, thank you very much for your help. one thing though, can i use DVD Shrink instead of dvd decyptor. they both produce the same output files.
You can use Shrink with no problem at all.
Analyse the DVD and then select re-author. Then drag the title folder over to the LHS window under the DVD icon. Then press the button with the 2 blue lines and arrows on it. This will allow you to select the start and the stop frames of the film to back up. You can see the time stamp in relation to the total length of the film, then just back up the section as you would a whole or re-authored film.
