Converting video to a format that works nice with Windows Movie Maker?

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Converting video to a format that works nice with Windows Movie Maker?

nexxai: Jul 17, 2002; quack quack bjork; Fun Shoe

I realize this is a stupid question but what is your end goal here? What is on this DVD and where are you trying to play the resulting file?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 16:57

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 19:10

nexxai: Jul 17, 2002; quack quack bjork; Fun Shoe

Minidust posted:

It's an amateur DVD of an indy wrestling show I was in. Trying to pull my match out of it and post it on YouTube.

If it's not encrypted, you should just use something like VirtualDub. You set your cut in point, your cut out point, set it to Stream Copy so there's not encoding (just cutting), and BAM, you're done.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 17:16

nexxai: Jul 17, 2002; quack quack bjork; Fun Shoe

Minidust posted:

Sounds promising. Any sort of fade in/out options? If not, I can live without it.

I'm sure there are ways, but I've never done editing that "in depth" so I'm not sure what those ways would be. Google "virtualdub fade in out" and you'll probably find a tutorial.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 17:59

nexxai: Jul 17, 2002; quack quack bjork; Fun Shoe

Stanley Pain posted:

The VOB files are just MEPG2 streams and should import no problem. Did you try renaming those files to .MPG and importing them in one by one?

Minidust posted:

I tried just renaming to the M2V file to MPG and MPEG, and WMM seemed to think it could import them (there was't a "no" symbol when I dragged it over), but I got an error message.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 18:12

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Converting video to a format that works nice with Windows Movie Maker?