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I have a DVD that has some innappropriate parts on it but I would like to edit them out and burn a new \"edited\" disk. However Windows Movie Maker won't let me take the video clips from the DVD. Is there a program that will let you edit the clips? Thanks.
You'll probably have decode the DVD into some form of workable format. AVI is probably the easiest because then you could use VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org) to edit frame by frame. Of course afterwards you'll need to re-encode the AVI back into DVD format in order to burn it.
For the decoding and encoding, I use WinAVI converter. I have a registered copy that I paid for, but you can get a trial version
There also may be other converters out there for free. I just use WinAVI Converter because its small and quick. Let me know if you need any help figuring VirtualDub out.
Last edited by ChrisMG on Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:36 pm; edited 1 time in total
Well, considering DVDs are Mpeg-2, you shouldn't have to convert just to take some parts out. Probably your best bet it to use DVD shrink and save the result to your hard drive, then edit the parts out using Virtual dub. Then, save the edited version with the options \"Direct Stream Copy\" for both audio and video. This will not require any transcoding, just removing of the parts you dont want.
I tried that before and I couldn't get it to work. I then did some research and found a website forum with someone who wanted to do the same thing. The answers were that once you encode, to make any frame by frame changes, you've got to decode to make the changes. Maybe it was an older thread that focused on earlier versions of VirtualDub.
Anyway, THIS site explains how to do it in VirtualDub fairly well. Its an older tutorial that uses a much earlier version of VD, but the commands are still there and its still the same process.
Last edited by ChrisMG on Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:44 pm; edited 1 time in total