Can someone walk me through exerpting a collection of dvds?

[exerpt]

Hello, Totally new here --- so apologies for this basic questions -- I'm so new I realize some of this is "here and there" but I can't quite put it together.

My goal: To take a collection of sports dvds and make a compilation of highlights (from a few minutes to 20 miutes) on a new dvd.

I have looked at some software but am cluless on what to do or how difficult this might be (I have no idea if the disks are encrypted etc).

Can someone please help me? I'm assuming I copy the disks to a hard drive and then put the "pieces" back on a new disk.

As you can see I'm lost -- I'd be most grateful if someone could help me here!

THANKS

[setarip_old]

Hi!

After ripping your original DVDs to your hard drive, one simple method would be to:

1) Use "MPEGE2CUT2.EXE" (Don't confuse with the older "MPEG2CUT.EXE") to select and save your clips

2) Use (freeware) "DVD Flick" to create a DVD (including, if you wish, a menu)

[Tiberiust]

Might I also suggest yu look at a 'pay for' option called VideoRedo. $30 I think it was. There's a trial version. It is very easy to learn and use.

I've done a huge amount of MPEG2 cutting. With this yu can set the different keyboard cursor movement keys (down/right/PGDN) to jump by frame/seconds/minutes or whatever interval you choose for each, sit back, blast thru the video with negligible delay/catch-up, (Core 2 Duo at 3.0, 8500GT) save multiple cuts to a cut list and it will then merge them for you into one nice file, or cut them all out and merge the remaining uncut bits. And that simplicity is combined with, for me, 100pct reliability and no audio sync problems ever! I've done hundreds of hours of MPEG2 with it.

I think yu can then go on to burn straight to DVDs (yu need the full version for this)...
T

[Ghitulescu]

You can do this in DVD shrink but you can cut only at GOP intervals. Using its companion, TitleWriter, you can author the menu. This way you can keep the subtitles, if any.