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How to extract a certain part of a DVD to use in a photoshow

by aberra Oct 2, 2008 11:20PM PDT

Hi!

I'm working with a photoshow (in Proshow Gold) and want to include a short sequence (ca 2 min) from a DVD (a home video to which I have legal rights). In order to add the video to ProShow I got to have only the short sequence (not the whole video) and convert it to another format (not VOB-files). Trimming can be done in ProShow Gold

Although having some experience with RipIt4Me (DVDShrink and DVD Decrypter) for ripping DVDs as well as using VLC for playing media files I have no experience whatsoever (i.e. newbie) re how to extract parts from a DVD to include in my photoshow. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Win XP Pro, Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GB, GeForce 8500 GT, 320 GB + 500 GB

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IBL

by bevillan Oct 3, 2008 1:20AM PDT

In before lock...

But I had to extract a scene from a DVD for a school project in college and I used DVD Shrink to rip the DVD to my harddrive and then used it to just select a certain scene and saved it as another file. I believe DVDShrink can do all that.

I don't know if it can take out individual images from the movie...but some sort of player should allow you to pause a DVD, take a snapshot, and export it.

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How to extract a certain part of a DVD to use in a photoshow

by aberra Oct 3, 2008 7:44AM PDT

Thanks for your comment IBL! I made it - using DVDShrink.

By using DVDShrinks "Re Author" mode I was able to cut out the part that interested me, then "Backup" to a VOB file, renaming that file to a .mpg file and finally converting the .mpg file to a .wmv file (since ProShow Gold didn?t accept the .mpg file). That?s it!

Again, thanks for your comment!

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