Rip Chapters to Avi

[CraigBjorn]

I'm attempting to rip scenes from movies that I own and then mix them together to make a sort of montage. I have Gordian Knot and All programs associated with it, but I'm still not entirely sure on how to use robot4rip to just rip some chapters. What I'd like to do is, rip the individual chapters I need, encode them with SBC, Use Avisynth to trim them to the right length and add transitions, encode them to MPG2, authorize, and then burn.

In summary, I want to know how to rip just chapters, or rip the whole movie and then just encode a chapter, AND I want to know if that is the best workflow set up.

Thank you for your time.

[Soulhunter]

You can use AviSynth's trim function... ;)

Trim(startframe,endframe)

You can also use DVD Decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.com/) to rip only the chapters you really need !!!


Bye

[manono]

Hi-

I'd take Soulhunter's advice and rip the chapters directly using DVD Decrypter. Set it for IFO Mode, and deselect the chapters that you don't want.

I wouldn't encode first to DivX 3.11 if I were you. I'd join all the chapters in DVD2AVI to make one long set of scenes, make the .d2v and then encode directly to MPEG2/DVD resolution.

Trimming after making the .d2v will be tricky, as you're likely to run into audio synch problems. If by "add transitions" you mean fade out/fade in between the chapters, then you can do that within the AviSynth script. You might find the Dissolve (http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=Dissolve) and/or FadeIn/Out (http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=Fade) commands useful. You may be biting off more than you can chew, but you'll learn a lot in the process. Good luck.

[CraigBjorn]

Hey thanks, yeah I know a good bit about Avisynth, I use it for all my editing needs now (I love the abmount control). I've done plenty of editing and encoding, but I mainly just wasn't sure about whether I should use Gordian Knot for everything, or go with my original plan to use DVD Decrypter, thanx for the quick reply. (btw, I'm also just using a song from a CD for audio, so I won't have to worry too much about synch problems ;)

[manono]

Hi-

Oh, you'll use a separate audio track? Then Trim away. Your project just became a lot easier now that I understand what you're doing. You can even skip the audio that's on the DVDs, if you want, by going into Stream Processing in DVD Decrypter, enabling Stream Processing, and then deselecting all the audio tracks. That'll give you an mpv (or is it m2v, I forget).

You can use GKnot for this. Just Edit the .avs, whether at the time it's created, or later on before doing the encoding. Probably later on would be better, as I think you'll want to check it out in VDubMod to find where to Trim and make your transitions. But if you decide to go direct to MPEG2, then I guess you'll be using CCE or TMPGEnc for the encoding.

[CraigBjorn]

Wait.... at what point do I convert it to a Avisynth compatible file? I've already gone ahead and rip some of the chapters with DVD Decryptor and made a .d2v file, but I'm not sure what to do from there (this is why I'm in the nube section) :rolleyes: thanx ahead of time

[manono]

Hi-

Using the Add button in DVD2AVI, add all the vobs one at a time in the order in which you want them. Then save the Project File. That will create the .d2v. Then open that in GKnot, maybe scroll through it to make sure it looks OK, crop and resize if you want (probably not, if making this for DVD), and then File->Save And Encode to create the .avs. If you're going to keep it at DVD resolution, then knock out the Crop and Resize lines in the .avs. Then open it in VDubMod to help set up where your trims and transitions go.

There are some other modifications to the .avs you'll have to make, depending on whether you're encoding for TMPGEnc or CCE, but I guess you already know how to do that.