I need to get some footage from a DVD onto a website. I just need small sections, not the whole film, purely for promotional purposes. Ideally I want to rip the DVD at the higest possible quality so that when I edit and then re-encode in various web formats (QuickTime, WindowsMedia, Real, etc) I get the best possible quality.
What's the best way to do this? I'm trying to rip to VOB using Smart Ripper, selecting just the title/chapter I need. Then I try to encode to loss-less AVI using 1st DVD Ripper. But I'm struggling. Is this the right method?
You need to load it up in an FTP sight as a download file! Or are you wanting it to play straight away when you go online. Also, DVD format isnt the best solution, too large, try changing it to AVI or something.
I'm not making VCDs or downloadable movies, or anything like that. I want to embed video clips on a web site, sitting in an HTML page. Rather like Apple's film trailers site (http://www.apple.com/trailers/).
I'll only be showing short clips, 2 or 3 minutes long, not whole films. These clips will be resized and recompressed to a variety of web streaming formats (QuickTime, WindowsMedia, Real, etc) at a variety of bandwidths (Dial-up, Broadband, etc).
However, much of my source material is provided to me as DVD movies. What I don't want to do is rip a DVD using a lossy VCD/DivX compression method. I need high quality source material which I can then edit, resize and compress using a set of standard video editing software (Premier, Media Cleaner, etc).
I'm just struggling / confused as to what's the best way to rip (part of) a DVD to give me the best quality fottage to be able to work with.
I dont think there is such a thing as ripping a dvd at the highest quality. All your doing is ripping the VOB files to your harddrive.
After ripping the vobs, you can encode straight to quicktime or whatever format. That would give you the highest quality possible. There's no need to encode to AVI first then to the other formats since that causes you to degrade the video stream, unless whatever software youre using to encode to quicktime doesnt work with VOB files. If thats the case you could use the huffyuv codec (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/huffyuv.html) to encode the vobs, which will result in a lossless AVI file, since huffyuv is a lossless codec. From there you can re-encode to quicktime etc...
Youre going to need a lot of space if youre going to encode with huffyuv first. But itll be faster when you re-encode to other video formats.
You can use VirtualDub to encode to huffyuv first.
