Capturing movies to mpeg
Hi everyone,
i'm quite sure that this is a hopeless question, but is there any way of getting scenes from movies on DVD into an mpeg format? I'm doing a presentation using my powerbook, and there are certain scenes in a few DVDs which i have that i'd like to include in powerpoint, as it would disrupt the meeting too much to stop powerpoint, switch the DVDs etc etc..
I appreciate any input!
i'm quite sure that this is a hopeless question, but is there any way of getting scenes from movies on DVD into an mpeg format? I'm doing a presentation using my powerbook, and there are certain scenes in a few DVDs which i have that i'd like to include in powerpoint, as it would disrupt the meeting too much to stop powerpoint, switch the DVDs etc etc..
I appreciate any input!
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not mpg, but it should still work i think
Originally posted by UkNeedsApple
Hi everyone,
i'm quite sure that this is a hopeless question, but is there any way of getting scenes from movies on DVD into an mpeg format? I'm doing a presentation using my powerbook, and there are certain scenes in a few DVDs which i have that i'd like to include in powerpoint, as it would disrupt the meeting too much to stop powerpoint, switch the DVDs etc etc..
I appreciate any input!
well, scenes on a dvd ARE in mpeg...- you you cannot use them, 'cause they are "muxxed", which means, they are a constant streamof audio and video, mixed together?
so, what you have to do is:
capture these scenes. i'm suppose, you are working with a copy protected dvd? use a tool called OseX (no, nothing to do with sex ;-)), look at versiontracker...
this tool "rips" the dvd content on your hd. - but still in mepg2...
so, you have to demuxx it. very easy to use, but cost a little shareware fee is dvd2dv, which makes a dvd-mepg into a dv-stream, which you can use and edit in iMovie (to edit just the clisp you need).
another tool is ffmpeg , very mighty, very complicated to handle?-
sorry, no further details, ripping dvds (which is, was you are planing to do) is a very complicated process, in case you want to edit the material?-
what would be much easier is to take single frames - play your dvd with
vlc , then you can make simple screencapture as usual? ok, moving images is allways fun in a presantation, but sometimes the content is more imprtant then the effect