Extracting movies or clips from DVDs

Let's say I have a family made DVD and I want to extract a clip from it (either a video or slideshow). I ask this for several reasons: if I want to extract a clip from a previously homemade movie that I then deleted or lost, and to take out clips from actual hollywood movies and save them or just clips to mix with my movies.

I'd have to say it's not hard - just not 'simple'.
It'd help if you'd be specific about the formats you're wanting to produce/work in/deliver/mix with etc.
DVDBackup & quite a few others will get any dvd onto disk... a simple copy will get an unprotected VOB there. A number of tools will read the VOBs, demux to mpeg2 ... (including plenty of 'free' *NIX tools - many with a nice, neat Mac OS X face ..)
From there it's a matter of what format you want or need to work in etc ..MPEG2 to RAW ? DV ?
But, starting from DVD/MPEG2,, transcoding to and mixing with DV , editing, then transcoding to a delivery format is not the best approach - the 'mix' of different sources/formats is likely to be pretty obvious ... unless you TC your DV to same MPEG2 .. then recode back, filtering to match etc..
I appreciate that this is an iMov forum but that doesn't mean iMov is the only - or correct tool - for the job ...
It rather depends on the details .... - please advise if you'd like some help.
best wishes,

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Import home movie clips from DVD

Hi all -
I've been trying to wrap my non-computer brain around the process of importing a previously burned home movie clip from DVD back into iMovie so I can add to it. (I messed up the first burn, but because of limited space, I deleted the original clip.)
I'd be happy to get it back to tape on my camcorder if that is the only way to do it, but I fear losing quality.
I've downloaded Mac the Ripper and Streamclip, but I don't want to pay extra money for any software (I'm a poor, starving student mom).
Can anyone help out?
Christine.

Your burned DVD uses MPEG-2 file format. You'll need more software:
MPEG Streamclip (free).
Apple's MPEG-2 PLayback Component ($20).
Use Streamclip to open the DVD contents and export to DV Stream (huge file). Use the .dv file in iMovie.

HT2479 I'm trying to extract a photo clip from my video. How do I do that?

I just took a video of my daughter's new wine and cheese shop. She loved it and wanted a picture of her that is in the movie. Can I extract a photo clip from the movie? I can't figure out how to do it and would love some help. Thanks.

Or just play back in full screen and pause the video on the section you want and take a screen shot(Shift CMD + 3).
Another thing you can do is Export using Quicktime from the Share menu and change the Export setting to Movie to Image Sequence. Make sure you export into a folder as you will get approx 30 images for every second of video you export. I would recommend creating a new project and just adding a couple seconds of the video clip around the spot that has the image you want then export Movie to Image Sequence (into a folder).

How can I move a clip from one movie to another

How can I move a clip from one movie to another?

If it's just a clip, you can simply go to the other project and Add Media/From Files and Folders.
But if it's a part of your movie -- say a sequence of clips or a clip that's had effects added to it -- you technically can't cut and paste betweeen projects in Premiere Elements. However, some people have been able to do it using the third party program ClipMate, available online.

Extracting Clips from DVD...

Hey guys, Im going to be extracting clips from a DVD to put together a highlight film for a hockey player. What software will allow me to put in a DVD, extract the clips I need, and then put it into final cut express or imovie to create a highlight film? Also, I know some of the software comes in both PRO and a regular version, which would I need?
DVDxDV? Toast?

It's not that complex. You get the MPEG-2 component and then you never hear about it again. The only thing that is a little tricky is finding the correct options to use in Streamclip, but we will be happy to guide you through that.
It's actually quite simple. All you have to do is open the DVD files using Streamclip, and then convert them to a Quicktime format FCE can use. When you have opened them in Streamclip, you can click Command-I to get the information about the files, and with that info we can help you decide on the settings to convert to.

FCS Question: Extracting Clips from DVD

I'm working on a demo reel and I would like to copy some shots from a DVD movie that I worked on. Is it possible to grab specific clips from a DVD movie with FCP?

Welcome to the forum!
You'll likely find your answers faster by utilizing the Search function in the forum. That said, you can use MPEG Streamclip to demux and convert the DVD's VOB file into an editable format you can import and edit on FCP.
Keep in mind that since you'll be using highly compressed MPEG-2 footage, you'd be much better off quality wise by using the original source tapes.
-DH

Import Clip From DVD

I have been trying for a couple of days to take a clip from a DVD and insert it into PE11.
I can't believe it's so incredibly hard, so I hope someone can help me.
First i use DVD Shrink to extract just the portion I want to the normal VIDEO_TS folder structure. This plays perfecty in AVS, WMP, VLC etc.
I then convert this (mostly using DVDFab), to AVI, WMP, MP4, with AC3, MP3, all kinds of audio.
ALL of them play in all my players. Some of them play in PE when dbl clicking the media in assets.
NONE of them play the speech audio when rendered and played after adding to timeline.
There is background music, however no speech at all.
It's incredibly frustrating as I have tried every codec combination I can think of, all play with normal players, and none can be used in PE11.
what am i doing wrong!
Thanks
Dave

wcn_dave
Sorry, up to your last post I was envisioning your issues to center mostly around the classical ripping of VOBs from the DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc.
That is an interesting switch, disc image iso format, in this mix. Never been there and done that, so I did. I have the Phantom Burner installed which allows me to "burn to a virtual disc" in this "virtual burner" to produce a disc image for the Premiere Elements 11 Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc.
After I mount the disc image iso into the Phantom Burner, I can go to Add Media/DVD Camera or Computer Drive/Video Importer, set the Source for the Phantom Burner drive, and bring the disc image into the Video Importer as VTS_01_1.VOB which can be brought into the Premiere Elements Expert workspace, using the Video Importer's Get Media.
If you got beyond that, I am not seeing the other problems that you say stop you from going further.
You wrote
In PE, I cannot do a 720x552 video, and it wont allow me to use the majority of file formats I have.
As it happens I am trying to get a few 5 second clips from a commerical DVD for a comedy montage I am making for a friends wedding anniversary.
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 4:3 source, what I suggest you look at is:
Open a new project
Go to File Menu/New/Project
In the new project dialog, set the project preset for PAL DV Standard.
Before you exit the new project dialog, put a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on this Project".
Then, when you are back in the Premiere Elements 11 Expert workspace, bring in your VOBs via Add Media/DVD camera or computer drive/Video Importer (with a check mark next to Add to Timeline...make sure you have the Save In set up correctly so that you do not get into an "already imported" type message (cannot save VOB with same name to same place...more on that if necessary).
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 16:9 widescreen, do the same but use the project preset PAL DV Widescreen.
As a reminder, the frame size for PAL DVD-VIDEO standard or widescreen is the same 720 x 576.
Please review what I have written and let us know if any of the above helped and/or you need clarification on anything that I have written.
Thanks.
ATR

Bringing in clips from DVD

Hey all,
I am a rank beginner on FCP 6. Am working on a documentary based on Gore's An inconvenient truth. I will need to import clips from gore's movie. I've looked at the contents of the DVD. There's a folder labelled VIDEO__TS. Therein are files with BUP, IFO and VOB extensions. Any suggestions?
karl

For non-commercial DVD's you need a program like Toast to rip video fom the DVD (Toast will generate QT-files that can be imported in NLE's like FC, iMovie).
For commercial DVD's that will not work as these DVD's are copy-protected.
I know there is software around to hak this protection, but as you know, this is illegal!

Importing .mov files converted from DVD

Hi
I have video which was originally shot in SD format using a Sony HDR - XR200 camera. (I need to shoot in SD format in order to be able to play back resulting DVDs in standard players) The SD footage from the camera is burned directly to DVD using a Sony DV Direct DVD recorder. I then use DVDxDV to convert clips from the DVD into .mov files. Having imported these .mov files into FCE 3.5 I get a message saying they are not optimized for FCE and should be recaptured. When I drag them onto the timeline they do show in the viewer at 29% size but I cannot see any picture on my external monitor.
Do I need FCE 4 even though I am not recording the original footage in AVCHD ? Do I need to use an Apple HD codec in the DVD to .mov conversion process?
Any advice appreciated - many thanks

Hi Tom
Converted clips are;
Vid rate 25fps
Frame size 720 x 576
Compressor DV PAL
Data rate 3.6 MB/sec
Pixel aspect PAL-CCIR 601
Forgive my ignorance but where do I get the item properties for the sequence I am editing into?

Trouble with clips from DVDs

I'm editing a project for a friend... most of the project was shot on a Sony PD150 in 16:9. At the end of the credits he wanted to put in a very short clip from a previous movie he made as a logo. He gave me a DVD of the film. One problem is that the clip itself is not true widescreen... the DVD is 4:3, letterboxed down to 16:9. If it's a smaller box in the widescreen frame that's probably okay since it's just a logo (we can probably throw in the production company name in the black areas).
The bigger problem is that when I tried to rip the DVD (using DVDx), the clip is not working properly in Premiere. I can view the clip fine in a media player program but when imported into the project in Premiere, it's not playing properly. Usually the image is stuck on one of the first few frames of the clip. There are several options on DVDx that I'm not terribly familiar with, and I'm wondering if one of these options needs to be tweeked to get a clip that will play in Premiere properly. Or perhaps there's another program that I can use to snag this clip from the DVD so that it will play in Premiere.
I seriously only need about 4 or 5 seconds of this 90 minute film but in DVDx I've had to rip the entire film (only to find out it's not working with Premiere). Is there an easier way to snag just that clip?

If the DVD is 100% DVD-compliant (very important), then CS4.2.1 can just Import the VOB, without needing to rip it. This ARTICLE will give you some more background on VOB's. If I were doing the ripping, I would want to rip to DV-AVI Type II w/ 48KHz 16-bit PCM/WAV Audio, but I do not know if your ripping software will do that. That would be the ideal for editing (with the exception of that initial MPEG-2 compression, which is unavoidable, given your source material).
Now, and only your eyes can tell, you can take the 4:3 MPEG-2 inside the VOB and use the fixed Effect>Motion>Scale to "full up" the width of the Frame, effectively cropping off the top, the bottom, or the top & bottom. Depending on the subject matter, you could also use Interpret Footage, and tell PrPro to deal with it as 16:9 with the appropriate PAR for your Project. Look at the footage closely, as it will change in the horizontal pixels.
Starting with MPEG-2 and then probably Exporting to another MPEG-2 (for DVD-Video), is not the ideal. Two compressions will never be pretty, but might work for your purpose. Still, only you can make that determination.
Personally, I would be very tempted to just redo the credit, but that will be more work. The end result, however, will be better, and with fewer potential problems.
Good luck,
Hunt

In making a "highlights" movie, using clips from different imported iMovie events, can I delete the larger iMovie event file from the Events browser and still work w the smaller clips in the Projects browser w/o having the larger files still loaded?

I have sucessfully imported 150 Sony digital 8mm movies (each one hour in length) into iMovie as 150 iMovie events. I have since successfully converted them from their original 13 Gb (.dv) file to an exported smaller 1.3 Gb (.4mv "large file") movie that I am happy with, using the iMovie projects browser. So now I have 150 " .4mv" movies on my internal HD as well as about half of my original raw data " .dv " movies on my internal hard drive.
Due to their large size (over 2 Tb), I do not have all the larger raw data (.dv) files on my 2Tb internal drive, just about half of them. What I want to do now is to create a new project in the Projects browser for each of my kids, and reload, starting with Tape #1, each of these larger files and do a highlights movie for each of my kids, wherein I pick out smaller clips from each 1 hour .dv iMovie event and paste them into the appropriate kid's Highlights project in the Projects browser.
Here's my question: If I load the first 5 large files back onto my internal HD, and paste in various shorter clips into each of my kids' Highlights project, and then if I delete those first 5 large files (they are backed up on 2 other 3Tb external HDs), can I keep doing this (reloading the next 5 large .dv files to work with), and ultimately take each of my kid's Highlights project and export as a .4mv movie EVEN THOUGH the earlier large .dv files are no longer on my internal HD, OR does my iMac need to have all these larger files loaded on my internal HD for me to eventually export each of my kid's Highlights project to a .4mv movie?
I have a 2011 era 27" iMac desktop w 2Tb HD internal and 250 Gb flash drive, and Lion OSX and iMovie 11.

Thanks. I tested it out and you were correct. I loaded 2 .dv movies from my external HD back onto my internal HD, and got them re-imported into iMovie, took a few short clips from each of the 2 iMovie events and pasted them into a new project in the Project Browser. Then I deleted these 2 "source clips" from my internal HD, closed iMovie and then re-opened it and found that iMovie would NOT export the smaller clips for a "highlights" .4mv movie without the "source clips" being available.
I read your link on Quicktime. It talks about mostly trimming, which is what I did with each iMovie event before I took each one as a project to export as a smaller .4mv file. But if I use Quicktime (do I need QT Pro or basic), what advantage is it to me to use QT over iMovie (I must admit I am a novice at iMovie and have never used QT or QT Pro as a tool)? Will it then convert any edits I make to a .m4v movie or do I need iMovie to do that?
Does QT allow trimming multiple segments out of a movie during one edit session, or can you only do 1 at a time? By that I mean that, for example, when I use Sonys Picture Motion Browser for my .mts movies, you can only set one Start and one End point for each edit/trim you do: it does not allow you to set multiple Start Stop points like iMovie allows in its Event or Project browser. You can only do one "trim" at a time, save it and then reopen to do another trim. not very useful.

How do I move all clips from an event into the edit line...

If I have an event of tons of clips that comprise an hour of footage, how can I select all of those clips at once from the event library and transfer them to the edit line above?
There is no Select All feature, that I can see, and it takes forever to highlight each chunk of clips, one at a time, and drag them up.
I'd like to drag the whole 1 hour's worth of clips in one event in my library up to the edit line at once.
Thanks!

Hi Rich,
I am trying to somehow "select all" clips, (not just all shots within a clip), but all 100 or so slips from an entire tape, from the first clip, to the last clip, and everything in between, and move them all up to the edit pane at once.
As it is now, I have to click on a thumbnail, select the entire clip, and move one clip at a time up to the edit pane.
I want to move all the clips up at once.

How do you move a clip from one event to a different event

Can't find anyway to do this. Seems pretty likely I'm overlooking the obvious.

Not sure what you mean. If you mean move clips from one event to another, you can just drag them in the Libraries pane. Or go to the File menu and use the Move Clip command.
If you mean from one project timeline to another, use copy and paste. Or just edit the edited source clip from the event in the browser to the other timeline.
Russ

Is it possible to export a video clip from DVD player to iMovie '09?

If I load a homemade DVD onto my iMac using Disk Utility and then import either the entire disc or portions of the disc into iMovie, that works just fine. However I noticed that some clips are missing in iMovie, even though they are on the iMac in form of a .dmg file on the desktop. The same file that was used to import in to iMovie. If I look at this file using DVD player, everything is there, but some of these clips are missing in the event window. So I created a video clip in DVD player of those pieces missing in iMovie and now how can I get these into iMovie?

Hey, best way to import video from a DVD video disc for editing is to acctually have a simple video file. Use Handbrake or MPEG StreamClip to read the disc and create a video file off the video stream.
You could also set in and out points anc manually create several clips, which may help with playback and rendering for editing. I don't know how extensive you're going to get in your editing with iMovie...
Hope that helped.

Import video clip from DVD

Can anyone help me learn what I need to import video clips from my family video DVD's? I created the DVD's from tapes through Pinnacle Studio 8 (before becoming a Mac fan).
Thanks for any help you can give me,
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My personal choice would be to edit them to a compatible format such as DV, you can do this with mpegstreamclip (free) provided you have the QT mpeg2 playback component installed (think it's $30), there are other third party software solutions, no doubt others will have their favourites.

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