Overlooked Anime's for Videos

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:13 am

Garylisk wrote:Ninja Cadets
Little Snow Fairy Sugar
Hana Yori Dango
Flame of Recca

Just to name a few off the top of my head

You have just gone up a lot in my estimation. So few people like / acknowledge this series... And I'm a sucker for anything cute (add Princess Tutu to this list).

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:01 pm

As for renting, there is a store near my workplace that rents DVDs. But I doubted I could rent, watch several times (for the audio), rip, and return a DVD's worth of video in one night.

Gotta sleep, you know.

That is a good idea overall, though. Maybe if you're near a store that has five-day rentals.

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:20 pm

Just to expand this latest line of thought, DVD Decryptor lets you make Region-Free, decrypted ISO images of discs.

Combine this with a program like Isobuster or somesuch, that lets you mount images on your HD as a virtual drive, or look inside the image to copy files out of it, and you could rip the disc in less than an hour, and watch it, and/or copy the vobs out of it to a folder for use in a project at your leisure.

I haven't tried all these steps, but I have made ISO's of region 2 DVDs and burned them to DVD-R to watch them in my set-top player, and that works great.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:40 pm

Personally, I think the online rental-by-mail places are the best for this type of thing. Netflix isn't bad... has a decent selection- but GreenCine just completely blows their selection away. They have to have like 95% of all domestically released anime DVDs...

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:47 pm

Hey, that's a pretty good idea. It's kind of steep for me, but I'll have to look into that when my finances are a bit better. 8) Thanks for the tip.

MindBug · Post by **MindBug** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:28 pm

Another good method for doing that, is to download the program "SmartRipper". Just load the DVD into your DVD drive, and then in the program options you can select which VOB files you want to pull from the disc. [Under "Files"] That is also good for ripping a menu, or other cool spot of a DVD extra's you like. [Takes me about 25 min to rip an average DVD on a 12X creative DVD drive]

Load the VOB's into "DVD2AVI" and do the "Save Project" option to output a *.d2v file. [About 7 - 15 min - Depending on the DVD] You can load that *.D2V file into TMPGEnc and then clip out what parts of the video you want. This is how I get the majority of my source footage. You can use the DVD [NTSC] profile in TMPGEnc to output high DVD quality mpeg clips. This can be loaded into premiere easily and still retain almost all the quality of the source footage. This is just another idea you could play around with. ;)

Those times are what it takes on my Dell:
Pentium Xeon 2.2 Ghz Duel Processor [only 1 right now]
512 MB Ram
Windows 2000 Pro

-MindBug-

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:57 pm

MindBug wrote:Another good method for doing that, is to download the program "SmartRipper". Just load the DVD into your DVD drive, and then in the program options you can select which VOB files you want to pull from the disc. [Under "Files"] That is also good for ripping a menu, or other cool spot of a DVD extra's you like. [Takes me about 25 min to rip an average DVD on a 12X creative DVD drive]

Load the VOB's into "DVD2AVI" and do the "Save Project" option to output a *.d2v file. [About 7 - 15 min - Depending on the DVD] You can load that *.D2V file into TMPGEnc and then clip out what parts of the video you want. This is how I get the majority of my source footage. You can use the DVD [NTSC] profile in TMPGEnc to output high DVD quality mpeg clips. This can be loaded into premiere easily and still retain almost all the quality of the source footage. This is just another idea you could play around with.

Those times are what it takes on my Dell:
Pentium Xeon 2.2 Ghz Duel Processor [only 1 right now]
512 MB Ram
Windows 2000 Pro

-MindBug-

That's a total waste of time when there are programs such as mpeg2cut which can extract mpeg2 clips without any recompression.

MindBug · Post by **MindBug** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:00 pm

your right, that's a half hour I will never get back. :(

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:39 pm

Um...if you notice, I just said earlier that I don't have time to rip a whole DVD on top of watching it. I know how to rip them. I am not an idiot.

MindBug · Post by **MindBug** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:07 pm

Hence why I posted it takes 1/2 hour. If you don't have half an hour, how do have time to make an AMV period. Sorry being trying to post something constructive people, I'll shut up now, and leave it to the pros...

-MindBug-