Free program to splice scenes from a DVD?

[weirdichi]

Basically, I want to splice scenes from a DVD I have for a communications class. It'd be easier to do than forwarding on the DVD (saves us time too, since we have 30 minutes only to do it). Thanks.

-Jack

 

[Jeff7]

With it on the hard drive, get DGIndex. I will assume it to be installed to C:\Program Files\DGIndex
- Open the VOB file(s).
- Go to the Video menu.
- Set the Field Operation to Forced Film. This will set it to the 23.976 framerate, so there shouldn't be any interlacing artifacts.
- Audio -> Output Method -> Decode AC3 Track to WAV

User the slider and the [ and ] buttons to put in your set points. These are rough, so give it several seconds leeway on either side.

File -> Save Project and Demux Video. Use a filename of "cut" for now. Assume it to be saved to c:\video\.

This will slice out the audio and video portion to WAV and M2V files. It will also save a .d2v file.

Now you've got options: VFAPI or AVISynth.
AVISynth is very flexible and powerful, but it takes some scripting. I'll post a sample here.

Install AVISynth. (avisynth.org)
Open notepad.
Copy and paste:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DGIndex\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("c:\video\cut.d2v")

Save it as a .avs file.
Open that file with Virtualdub.
In the Audio menu, set it to use a WAV file, and open the WAV file you created. It might be really quiet, so you may want to use another program to maximize its audio before opening it with Virtualdub.

Set your cut points to exactly what you want, choose output codecs for video and audio, and save.

You should have a nicely cut piece of video.


Videohelp.com also has a wealth of info on, well, video.

 

[funboy6942]

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