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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------