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Firstly, are there any free ones? I'll ask other questions should this be true.

There's the Gordian Knot rippack. You can find it, and several other similar programs, at Doom9.org . I've been using GK to extract anime and TV openings off discs in my DVD collection.

Gordian Knot uses DVD Decrypter to actually decrypt and/or demux the DVD datastream. Once that's done you can fire up a program that supports MPEG2 compression to find the relevent parts.

Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

There's some basic tools like Windows Movie Maker and Apple's iMovie. Anything more sophisticated will cost you money.

Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

Datana wrote:There's the Gordian Knot rippack. You can find it, and several other similar programs, at Doom9.org . I've been using GK to extract anime and TV openings off discs in my DVD collection.

Ok then, I'll check it out.

Gordian Knot uses DVD Decrypter to actually decrypt and/or demux the DVD datastream. Once that's done you can fire up a program that supports MPEG2 compression to find the relevent parts.

Thanky.

StarshipTitanic wrote:

Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.

Yes. VirtualDub is best used for adding in an audio track or doing some postprocessing, but for editing it's wretched. (And hell, AVISYNTH is usually better for doing image processing jobs).

Dalton wrote:

StarshipTitanic wrote:

Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.

Which doesn't sound like what he's trying to do. He didn't mention putting together any clips.

Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?

StarshipTitanic wrote:Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?

Divx5, with Lame MP3 for the audio.

Darth Wong wrote:

StarshipTitanic wrote:Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?

Divx5, with Lame MP3 for the audio.

Ok, thanks.

StarshipTitanic wrote:

Dalton wrote:

StarshipTitanic wrote: Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.

Which doesn't sound like what he's trying to do. He didn't mention putting together any clips.

Well. heh. I suppose that takes me into another problem then. I thought I might be able to use the clips from the earlier program, but I suppose you can't rearrange them or merge them together?

Alright, so perhaps I should better phrase my questions. If I have the above mentioned program to take clips from DVDs, which would be the best preferable programs to rearrange the clips, merge them into one video, and which would be the best to program that I could edit the audio in or out, to add in my own music?

You need a real video editor for that. AFAIK, no free program like VirtualDub can do that, unless you like pain.

As for MP3 audio in an AVI, it usually works well, but if you use VBR encoding then you're running out of spec.

Hmm, thanks phong. It's just that I've seen a lot of music videos out right now (like on KaZaa) that people made. And sometimes they're pretty good, other times they're kinda meh quality wise. but you find alot of that stuff with Anime and Final Fantasy videos for songs like Evanescence's "Bring me to life." So I figured somewhere out there there's got to be the editor's that can do that.