DVD to .Mov (Newbie)

[iNertia]

Despite (or because of) an endless trawl through past posts I'm horribly confused and would really appreciate a helping hand.

I want to take small sections from various DVDs and extract full quality sections (no more than 10 minutes) to use in presentations (in Appleworks) to teach my classes.

So far I have managed to get .VOBs - utterly useless in their current state.

Ideally I want to get to .mov so that I drop them into Appleworks.

Do I have to convert whole movies or can I select a particular section?

Would appreciate any help (even if it's only pointing me at another poster that speaks English).
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[galactica]

if you have mpeg2playback component of quicktime, rename .vob to .mpeg and open it in quicktime
you can then save as .mov or export as what you want

keep in mind that it will be really large file for full quality, whereas if you doop it down a bit the quality loss wont be very noticable but your resulting file size will

[Thomas-MacFreak]

If you don't have the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 component, I would strongly recommend using MacMPEG2Decoder. With this app, you can easily encode your .VOB files into more QuickTime friendly formats.

http://mm2d.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!

[ZeroSix]

for what you are trying to do, i strongly recommend using 0Sex to extract the parts of a dvd you want to convert to quicktime.

(download 0Sex here: http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~afaversa/OSEx-current.sit )

With 0Sex, you can select individual titles, chapters, etc, thus making it a lot easier to narrow down the content you are after, as opposed to ripping the entire movie, or just one or two large .vob files.

Once you have the content you are after, you can convert them in the terminal using mencoder to a quicktime friendly format. From there, you can export to any other format you wish, as long as you have the Quicktime components, such as .mp4, .mov, etc.

To do this, make sure you have mplayer and mencoder installed. Go to http://mplayerosx.sf.net to download the binaries.

Then fire up your terminal and cd to the directory that contains the file(s) you ripped from the dvd.

then type:

mencoder -ovc lavc -oac pcm /path/to/input.vob -o /path/to/result.avi

It will actually convert your .vob file to a .avi file using the LibAVCodec for the video, and uncompressed pcm for the audio. This is desirable because Quicktime can handle these files extremely well.

Just open that .avi file up in Quicktime, trim what you want, and export normally to whatever you want it to be.

If you are working with a 10 minute clip, for example, total conversion time from start to finish would be about 20 minutes on a good G4.

Galactica, we can export MPEG2 directly in Quicktime now?

When was someone going to tell me!

[galactica]

I am sorry... i thought you had the clips already and just needed them in a quicktime container to import.

Follow zerosix's suggestions that will set you straight

[iNertia]

Thanks very much, all.

[SERBIAN]

Or try OSEx and this:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14022

[ZeroSix]

never heard of that program before...

Seems like that would do the trick, and make it a TON easier for you!

Good lookin' out, Serbian!

[SERBIAN]

never heard of that program before...

My new one.....Posted in public 2 days ago..I used QuickTime API, some C++ and AppleScript to build it...Advanced version of my old Export2DV app..

Good lookin' out, Serbian!

THANX..

[DVWannaB]

Or try OSEx and this:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14022

SERBIAN,

great looking all-in-one-tool. Unfortunately, I operate in a Windows-based environment. Is there a similar tool I could use like this on my machine? I want to covert MPEG2 files to MOV. Thanks.

[galactica]

you are in the totally incorrect form

Sebarian writes apps for OSX, not for winbloze

rerfer to the PC formus on this site to find an answer to your question.

[SERBIAN]

Thanx Galactica.. ..You are right 110%...Mac only, sorry..

[deadsierra]

you are in the totally incorrect form

Sebarian is writes apps for OSX not for winbloze

rerfer to the PC formus here to find an answer to your question

I have never seen you use such horrible grammar. Your wife would be so displeased.

[galactica]

want to know the funny thing... i dont even remember writing this reply!
hahahahaha

i edited the grammar so it should read better now