When all you want is five seconds... what do you do?

Twoflower · Post by **Twoflower** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 11:36 am

Howdy. Absolute newbie alert.

I'm keen on getting into anime music video editing. I've got access to Premiere and a pile of great DVDs. I've got the idea and the music and I want to learn how to make Da Magic(tm) happen.

But there's something I don't understand... every tutorial I've seen says the same thing. If you want footage, rip and recompress the entire DVD (or at least a few chapters) to your hard drive.

But all I want is five seconds of video! It doesn't even have to have an audio stream, I just need the video frames. Is there a more hard-drive-space and time-consumption effective way of snagging your tiny little bit of video off a DVD than wrangling the entire VOB? It seems a bit bizarre that a player program can easily jump to a specific spot on a DVD and play back a tiny bit of the digital video, but if you want to get those pictures onto your hard drive, you need the whole shebang...

I'm tempted to just hit 'Capture Frame', 'Next Frame', 'Capture Frame', 'Next Frame' over and over, then convert the stream of bitmaps into an AVI. It might take less time.

So... what am I not understanding here?

Thanks in advance!

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:03 pm

http://www.digital-miner.com/chopperxp.html

Twoflower · Post by **Twoflower** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:08 pm

There we go! I was hoping for something like that.

Seems like it's a saner option than keeping 40 gigs of VOBs lying around for those 'Various Anime' oriented videos. Thanks! I'll play around with it tonight.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 8:06 pm

What I've also done in the past is rip the chapter I need, find the scene I need, and export that one scene as a HuffyUV (and if I don't need it right away, burn it to CD... a five second scene will definitely fit on a CD).

Once you've exported the scene you need, you can delete the VOBs and other assorted things :D.