Matt
02-03-2007, 10:26 AM
Hi guys!
Thought you video hounds might be able to help me out here!
Okay, first of all, this ain't about ripping movies off!
Background:
A friend and I were talking about the best bits of our favourite films one night in the pub, when I thought about creating a DVD (for internal use only!) of all the best bits from the vast collection I have! A sort of "movie mix tape" if you will.
After searching the net for sometime, I settled on 'YASA DVD to MP4 Converter'. Which despite the ugly interface does a really got job, only $39 too! So I bought it.
What was great about it was the ability to encode from specific start and end times, so you don't have to extract chapters and throw away the bits you don't want.
Herein lies the problem. Using WinDVD to playback the movie (YASA DVD to MP4 Converter doesn't allow you to playback, only jump to certain points, which is a bit odd) to the right points I copied the timimgs into DVD to MP4 Converter and encoded it.
All if fine until you play it back only to find the timing is out by a second or so, and more if you're further in the movie.
Clearly they've got the timing code a bit screwy. It's not a huge deal because you just have to be aware of this and set large margins of error.
But I was wondering if anyone knew of something that allowed you to extract snippets of films like this, does a quality job, and is reasonably fast?
I mean are there any pro packages out there that are worth a look at?
Any help would be much appreciated, because I want to crack on with this, I think it will be a fun little project when it's done!
Cheers
Matt
Thought you video hounds might be able to help me out here!
Okay, first of all, this ain't about ripping movies off!
Background:
A friend and I were talking about the best bits of our favourite films one night in the pub, when I thought about creating a DVD (for internal use only!) of all the best bits from the vast collection I have! A sort of "movie mix tape" if you will.
After searching the net for sometime, I settled on 'YASA DVD to MP4 Converter'. Which despite the ugly interface does a really got job, only $39 too! So I bought it.
What was great about it was the ability to encode from specific start and end times, so you don't have to extract chapters and throw away the bits you don't want.
Herein lies the problem. Using WinDVD to playback the movie (YASA DVD to MP4 Converter doesn't allow you to playback, only jump to certain points, which is a bit odd) to the right points I copied the timimgs into DVD to MP4 Converter and encoded it.
All if fine until you play it back only to find the timing is out by a second or so, and more if you're further in the movie.
Clearly they've got the timing code a bit screwy. It's not a huge deal because you just have to be aware of this and set large margins of error.
But I was wondering if anyone knew of something that allowed you to extract snippets of films like this, does a quality job, and is reasonably fast?
I mean are there any pro packages out there that are worth a look at?
Any help would be much appreciated, because I want to crack on with this, I think it will be a fun little project when it's done!
Cheers
Matt