Rip DVD to DV or other less-intensive codec?

[kcdixon]

I am compiling footage from DVDs and need to get them into video editing software, to perform some splicing, transitions, over dubs, etc...

Is there a way to configure GKnot or AutoGK to output DV codec?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Not those apps..

You'll need to learn a little VirtualDub.

The Cedocida codec is an excellent DV encoder, and if you can get your DVD source into VirtualDub via DGIndex and Avisynth, you should be able to encode a DV AVI.

~MiSfit

[kcdixon]

Ah, DGIndex was just the trick I needed. Now that i have the es's I can run them through DirectShow....

[MatLz]

Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit

...DVD source into VirtualDub via DGIndex and Avisynth...

Why not directly in Virtualdub???

[Ghitulescu]

How come that your editing suite doesn't understand MPEG-2?
Even then (for the old Premiere), it would be more elegant to use frameserving (trick your editor that you feed it with RAW video), so you have 1 coding+1 decoding less.

[MatLz]

We are in a newbie part of the forum: autogk...
So why not propose an easy solution?

[manono]

Originally Posted by MatLz

We are in a newbie part of the forum: autogk...

Well, yes and no. It's also the GKnot forum and there are plenty of people here that use one or another of these programs and aren't newbies.

Originally Posted by MatLz

So why not propose an easy solution?

The easiest isn't always the best, and here we try to recommend and use quality solutions. And that means using an AviSynth script (although I'd recommend the use of MPEG2Source over DirectShowSource). Opening VOBs directly in VDub(Mod) for encoding is an obsolete and inferior solution.

[neuron2]

Originally Posted by manono

Opening VOBs directly in VDub(Mod) for encoding is an obsolete and inferior solution.

fccHandler's latest Vdub MPEG2 input plugin is fine, IMHO, as long as you don't need Force Film mode. It supports honoring pulldown where needed. I agree that VdubMod is dubious.