I want to take a few seconds from a DVD and add it to my presentation

[icematt]

Hi, I am doing a Remembrance Day presentation. I have narrowed it down to 2 programs I will use for the presentation...
Sony Vegas and/or ULEAD Visual Studio. (maybe you can tell me which is easier to use)

Anyway, I want to use a few seconds of D-Day footage and Saving Private Ryan footage
and put it into the presentation with a soundtrack of U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' playing over it. What do you think?

How should I go about it?
Do I need to convert the DVD to .mpg? or .avi...?
I have no clue
Thanks.
Matt

[icematt]

does anyone have any ideas?

[guns1inger]

Use virtualdubmpeg2 to comvert the sections you want to DV avi using the panasonic dv codec. Load these into Windows Movie Maker, edit and add the audio.

How are you presenting ? What format do you need the output in ?

[icematt]

I thought I would use Sony VEGAS or ULEAD Visual Studio...

I do not know what format I want it in. I was hoping you could tell me
M

[guns1inger]

Both are overkill for such a small project.

If I was using Vegas for this, then I would use virtualdubmpeg2 to extract the segments I needed from the DVD into a lossless avi - probably lagarith - then load this into Vegas to edit and add the audio.

As to what you need - again I ask - how are you presenting ? Do you need a DVD, are you putting it in a powerpoint slide, are you running it from a PC or laptop ? I can't answer these questions.

[icematt]

well, I would like to put it on a DVD, but there may need to be small changes to it from year to year. Perhaps Powerpoint...?
I am not sure what would be best for me.
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HERE is a post that started the whole thing, maybe you could give me an idea what I need after hearing what I want.

First, thank you for taking the time to read this.

I am a teacher and want to make a Remembrance Day presentation for my school. However, I am not sure what program I should use to create it. I am using a PC.

We have interviewed a graduate who went on to fight in Afghanistan. He gave us about 20 minutes of footage which I want to condense to about 5 minutes.
He also gave me thousands of photos and video clips to add to the presentation.

I was thinking I could use PowerPoint, but am not sure it would be able to handle what we want it to.

We want the presentation to fade into pictures and video (muted) as he answers the questions.

We also want to be able to incorporate 'Last Post' and the text to 'In Flanders Fields' within the presentation.

My question is... what program should I use for this? TMPGenc? DVD LAB PRO?
I suppose something that is comparable to 'I MOVIE' for MAC...

Here is where I become a luddite!

Please point me in the right direction, once there, I am confident I can figure out the gist of it. But there are too many choices and I don't know what to use.

Thanks,
Matt

I REALLY appreciate your help
M

[kschang]

Do you have a script of what you wanted to do yet?

If you don't, please write one, THEN come back. We can't help you if you weren't even sure what you want to do.

[icematt]

Hi, I am getting closer to what I want to do now.
I have ULEADVISION 10 and I want to try to use the multi trim video tool. Unfortunately it is not accesible (greyed out)
How do I get this to change?

Cheers
Matt

[jmsrickland]

Hi, I am getting closer to what I want to do now.
I have ULEADVISION 10 and I want to try to use the multi trim video tool. Unfortunately it is not accesible (greyed out)
How do I get this to change?

Cheers
Matt

I use Ulead Video Studio 10 all the time to do what you want to do. Place the video in the timeline and then left click on it. That should make multi-trim enabled. If it does, click on the multi-trim feature and that will place the video clip into the multi-trim timeline. Use the [ and ] buttons to trim what you want and throw away what you don't want. Click on OK and the trimmed segment you want will replace the video clip that was already in the edit mode timeline.

[pepegot1]

Use VideoRedo to cut out exactly what you want. You can change bit rates and sound if you need to. Then use the clips, cut from VRedo, in Ulead's Video Studio 10 to make your presentation.
VideoRedo blows the hell out of the Ulead VS 10 editor and is well worth it.

[icematt]

Hi, I am getting there... I used VIDEOREDO.

I have the poem In FLANDERS FIELDS I want to add to the presentation. How do I add a word document? the Image option will not accept it... Is there a way around this?

thanks.