looking for a way to rip out short samples from DVDs

[sybariten]

Hi all,
i'm looking for some way to rip out short clips from a bunch of DVDs, essentially these will be "samples" of the film so i only want a scene or even a clip. Preferably i'd like to keep the filesize around 1.5 megabytes.

Any ideas ?

(oh, and i need to know what i am ripping so i am gonna need some way to specify in and out points i guess)

cheers

[Baldrick]

fairuse wizard. select what you want, set the output size and rip to divx or xvid.

[ricardouk]

dvd shrink can rip short clips

[Baldrick]

yep, if you want dvd mpeg2 clips use dvd shrink instead.

[sybariten]

then we're talking basicly the same format as the DVD came in right?

nah, i need this to be more ... hmm "versatile" ... mpeg-1 would be great so i think i'll go for fairuse.

Thank you!

[ricardouk]

fairuse wont export into mepg1
either divx or xvid like Baldrick said

[Seeker47]

yep, if you want dvd mpeg2 clips use dvd shrink instead.

Hmmm, I did not notice anything like that in any of the Shrink guides I've looked at.

I had a very similar question in mind, re being able to excerpt just an individual scene or sequence, in DVD-ready format. Preferably with max. quality + the max. possible ease of use (no IFOedit or PGCedit type tools), including being able to easily preview the From Here --> To There points. Don't want to lose the sync sound, either. I know it refers to a totally irrelevent tool for this, but the name "Virtual VCR" sort of describes what I'm looking for.

[ricardouk]

being able to excerpt just an individual scene or sequence, in DVD-ready format. Preferably with max. quality + the max. possible ease of use (no IFOedit or PGCedit type tools), including being able to easily preview the From Here --> To There points. Don't want to lose the sync sound, either.

you can do al that with dvd shrink
go into reathour mode,click and drag the movie to the left side and then click on start/end frames

very easy

[MOVIEGEEK]

DVDx for MPEG-1 or 2/AVI
DVDShrink for VOB

[venomva]

Hey great post and answers everyone
I need to do the same thing!

THANKS ALOT!!!

My question is when I drag the episode I want over to the left then select which frames I want to get out of it will it put it to MPG or .iso or what? I want it to be in MPG format. Can anyone tell me how to do that please?

[Seeker47]

being able to excerpt just an individual scene or sequence, in DVD-ready format. Preferably with max. quality + the max. possible ease of use (no IFOedit or PGCedit type tools), including being able to easily preview the From Here --> To There points. Don't want to lose the sync sound, either.

you can do al that with dvd shrink
go into reathour mode,click and drag the movie to the left side and then click on start/end frames

very easy

Thanks for the tip, and I've just found a more detailed guide on this, which I will look at more closely. So far, I have only tried this procedure once. The video clip was what I wanted to extract, but the clip had NO SOUND. I'm still wondering what went wrong.

Assuming I did something wrong, which will be correctable next time, I think this method may suffice. However, it would really be great if there was a way to take the clip out more precisely, say with a time-based indicator. So, if one knew the desired clip went from the point of 1hr.: 14min.: 21sec. to whatever, you could just grab that.

[mgh]

You also get time indication in DVDShrink. Use double arrows or drag pointer to move rapidly through movie-single arrows for I frame to I frame.