Help!!!

[green_dragon_1104]

Help!!! I'm using AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guide to All Things Audio and Video. I have ripped my DVD and I open up DVD2AVI and I set up everything the way they say.

I then "Save Project", the next step says "OK, make the project - if it takes much more than about 20 minutes with these settings then you need a serious defrag or you need to stop using your USB Hard Drive ".

What does that mean????

Finally, is there anyone who knows how to rip a dvd and get the things you need from the dvd to windows movie maker 2.0?

[post-it]

- if it takes much more than about 20 minutes with these settings then you need a serious defrag or you need to stop using your USB Hard Drive

this is giving you an idea of how long it should take for the RIP to be done
and if takes longer than that to get a decent computer.

Note: Most of the people who write these guides have the Newest and Best Computers and sometimes they forget what it was like to not have the Newest or best!

^^

[trythil]

Help!!! I'm using AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guide to All Things Audio and Video. I have ripped my DVD and I open up DVD2AVI and I set up everything the way they say.

I then "Save Project", the next step says "OK, make the project - if it takes much more than about 20 minutes with these settings then you need a serious defrag or you need to stop using your USB Hard Drive ".

What does that mean????

Finally, is there anyone who knows how to rip a dvd and get the things you need from the dvd to windows movie maker 2.0?

It's a joke. I've used USB2 external drives for video editing -- as far as AMVs from DVD material goes, they work fine.

As for as DVD importing into WMM: one way is to just extend the AVISynth method and use VirtualDub to export clips in HuffYUV (or whatever). It's definitely the simplest method.

If you don't want to use HuffYUV then you might be able to use VFAPI to wrap AVISynth scripts from VirtualDub. (Basically you'd be frameserving frameserved material.) I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work, but then again I've never done it.

[LightningCountX]

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[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

- if it takes much more than about 20 minutes with these settings then you need a serious defrag or you need to stop using your USB Hard Drive

this is giving you an idea of how long it should take for the RIP to be done
and if takes longer than that to get a decent computer.

Note: Most of the people who write these guides have the Newest and Best Computers and sometimes they forget what it was like to not have the Newest or best!

^^

Guess again. It actually means the d2v making stage shouldn't take more than 20 minutes. Plus a "decent computer" in the eyes of that guide is like, a 1gHz P4/AMD Athlon, which is definetly not state of the art. Also, if your hard drive is fragmented, file access takes alot longer, as the heads need to move all over the place to gather one file. Finally, the thing about the USB hard drive is a smartass comment. USB hard drives are appalingly slow in comparison to interior ones.

[green_dragon_1104]

Thanks everyone!!! I'll start getting to work on it again later this week. If I have any more problems I know where to come and ask questions now. This is my first time to try this and I'm sure there will be more questions on the way.

[trythil]

USB hard drives are appalingly slow in comparison to interior ones.

Overgeneralization. You can't say anything about "USB hard drives being slower than interior drives", because there's many factors in play.

Anecdote: I use a 120GB ATA/100 @ 7200 rpm Western Digital drive mounted in a USB2 enclosure, and I've not noticed any significant performance difference between that and an 80GB ATA/100 @ 7200 rpm IBM Deskstar (yes, those things...luckily mine hasn't failed so far) mounted internally. On the other hand, the external 120GB drive transfers stuff a lot faster than my internal 20GB ATA/100 Quantum Fireball drive @ 5400 rpm does.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

USB hard drives are appalingly slow in comparison to interior ones.

Overgeneralization. You can't say anything about "USB hard drives being slower than interior drives", because there's many factors in play.

Anecdote: I use a 120GB ATA/100 @ 7200 rpm Western Digital drive mounted in a USB2 enclosure, and I've not noticed any significant performance difference between that and an 80GB ATA/100 @ 7200 rpm IBM Deskstar (yes, those things...luckily mine hasn't failed so far) mounted internally. On the other hand, the external 120GB drive transfers stuff a lot faster than my internal 20GB ATA/100 Quantum Fireball drive @ 5400 rpm does.

True... i know in every situation it isn't the case. USB 1.1 (which unfortunately alot of people still use) is slow in any case. But I guess things like USB 2.0 and FireWire are picking up speed and popularity. Anyway, anything would be faster than my Western Digital 40bg 5400 rpm brick.

[green_dragon_1104]

Thanks again everyone!!! I finished my first AMV. I will try to get it on the site if I can. It is a Dragonball Z and if I get it on the site I would like to know what people think.