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Editing a commercial DVD

Jan 27, 2005 10:19PM PST

Is there a way to copy a DVD movie that I own to my hard drive, then edit out parts I don't want, and then burn the finished movie back to DVD ??

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If I wanted to do that.
Jan 27, 2005 10:41PM PST

The steps are...

1. DVDSHRINK.
2. Edit with Ulead's DVD MovieFactory 3 (only latest edits DVD content).
3. Possibly another copy with DVDSHRINK.

Good luck with this.

Bob

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capturing movies
Feb 17, 2005 3:48AM PST

1st thing, NEVER EVER BURN A WHOLE MOVIE TO YOUR HARD DRIVE, it will crash and you won't be able to boot up your computer. That is way too much footage to put onto your hard drive.

First you need a program to edit the movie and just capture clips to your hard drive, then you can put it together. You'll also need enough RAM and hard drive space to capture. Check specs.

Hope this helps. Good Luck.

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Try www.vcdhelp.com
Feb 22, 2005 5:03AM PST
http://www.vcdhelp.com

No putting a whole movie won't crash your hard drive like another poster said. VCDHelp is full of articles that can help you decide what's the best way to do different things with DVD's, etc.

Good Luck!
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crashing hd with movies
Feb 23, 2005 3:32PM PST

Movies generate very large files on hard disc. If you have an older computer without Win XP, you probably have a HD formatted in fat32 (Win 9Cool. This system can only handle files up to 4g, and then you get failures of disc write. For movies you really need Win XP, with a very large HD formatted in NTFS to get around the 4g file size limitation. A fast cpu also helps.