[muglo] Re: Editing DVDs Revisitrd

hi all

After further thoughts and discussion, I have come to the conclusion 
that whatever method I use for editing, it is the final encoding that 
is going to take the time (even if one uses EyeTV which looked 
promising but more costly) which requires a very fast processor and 
lots of RAM and even then will probably take about 3 hours to process a 
1 hour movie (it was suggested leaving it to be done overnight!) which 
means a considerable time for editing a large number of programme 
series!!

The final solution (which is not as good) will be to attach a second 
DVD Player and re-record using the pause button over the parts to be 
edited out!!  Won't be perfect but good enough to eliminate about 95% 
of the rubbish!!

Paul

On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am sorry to bring up the subject again but I have progressed a little
> but stuck again and hoping that someone can help me!
>
> You may remember that my problem is to edit parts of a movie on a DVD
> and create a new DVD!  Sounds simple and Apple certainly have gone part
> of the way with iMovie and iDVD.
> I have now achieved making a DVD (apart from burning) using iDVD and
> pieces of movie material which I found had to be one of the following:
> iMovie output, mpeg-4 or file type .dv (a Quicktime movie).
> I used Streamclip to edit a movie file from a DVD (a .vob file) which
> easily creates another .vob file! (which is readable with VLC) which is
> not acceptable by either iMovie  nor iDVD. Streamclip does allow
> conversions but the speed (on my colmputer) is far too slow; exporting
> a 90.4Meg took about 40 mins to convert 10% of the file!  To convert a
> whole 1hour movie segment would take for  ........!!!!
> Another strange fact that I found out was iMovie would accept a portion
> of a movie in .vob form but although it seemed to import the whole
> segment (it took about 2.5 mins to import), when played, it only played
> about 28 secs. whereas with VLC it took about 17 mins to play (which
> was to be expected - so it seems that although iMovie appeared to
> import the whole thing, it only played a small fraction of it!!!
>
> So i am, as they say back to base 1!!  It seems that Apple assume that
> one's original is coming from a camcorder and have made no provision
> for allowing the source to be on a DVD - this seems strange to me!!
>
> Anyway, I have done a Google search for ideas but not come up with any
> workabe ideas beyond Streamclip which cannot easily get it's output
> into iMovie or iDVD!!
>
> Someone suggested using Handbrake.  I looked at this which looks good
> but requires OSX 10.4 for Graphical input or Command-Line for 10.3!  I
> have 10.3.9 and looked at the Command-line version which frankly made
> no sense to me (not being familiar with this mode of operation!!).  I
> could purchase version 10.4 and try the Graphical form of the
> programme! But before going to this expense (for 10.4) I would like to
> know if anyone has actually used Handbrake (Graphical) - which I
> understand also allows editing of the video files - vto take a video
> file off a DVD, edit it, and then put it into iDVD to burn a new DVD?
>   According to the Handbrake web page it looks as if this can be done
> but I would like to hear if anyone has actually had experience in doing
> what I want to do and which looks possible using Handbrake and iDVD?
>
> If I get a positive response to this message, then I will probably go
> ahead and get the OS X (10.4) upgrade!
>
> I am sorry for the length of this message but I wanted to make it clear
> (I hope) as to my present situation, the problems I have encountered
> and what appears to me to be the solution!!
>
> Paul
>
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