Rip DVD to editable video file

[crazychicken]

I transferred some vhs tapes to dvd's. The only problem is I left some of them playing for too long, so there is sometimes an hour of static at the end of the file. I wanted to backup the dvds on an external hard drive, but I figured in that process I should be able to chop off that static. I do not need a big fancy ripper that unencrypts the dvds and such because they are not encrypted, as I just produced them. I have used dvd shrink but it only makes them into dvd format (which I cannot edit with a video editing software).

Is there any free software to do this?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Rottie]

do you have nero vision? nerovision does a good job editing video file you might want to check with oem nero cd that come with dvd drive you might have purchased

 

[Sam25]

Perhaps Virtualdub can do it. You can check it out here:

http://www.virtualdub.org/

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Handbrake.

 

[MTDEW]

Originally posted by: crazychicken
I transferred some vhs tapes to dvd's. The only problem is I left some of them playing for too long, so there is sometimes an hour of static at the end of the file. I wanted to backup the dvds on an external hard drive, but I figured in that process I should be able to chop off that static. I do not need a big fancy ripper that unencrypts the dvds and such because they are not encrypted, as I just produced them. I have used dvd shrink but it only makes them into dvd format (which I cannot edit with a video editing software).

Is there any free software to do this?

Thanks,
Dave

You can "Chop Off" the static endings with dvd shrink, just reauthor and edit the start/end frames.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: Sam25
Perhaps Virtualdub can do it. You can check it out here:

http://www.virtualdub.org/

I forgot about Virtualdub and it is easy to use I would recommand this if you dont have Nerovision laying around in your house

 

[crazychicken]

I ended up using the reauthoring of dvd shrink - worked perfect for only having to chop off time at the beginning or end!

Virtual dub requires the video to be in some file format (avi, mgg) before editing, correct? You cannot work directly on the dvd image like dvd shrink does, right?

Dave