What's the easiest way to edit clips out of DVDs?

Question

I was wondering what the fastest way is to take clips out of DVDs and save them onto my computer as .avi's.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hi - Well the first thing I would say is "DON'T".

If you can avoid ripping a DVD then please do. The reason is straightforward: DVD footage is heavily compressed and manipulating compressed footage (especially if you have to compress it further) will degrade the quality.

However, if you are intent on ripping DVDs then it is really a 3 stage process.

   1. Rip the DVD contents

   2. Edit the resulting files

   3. Burn back to a DVD (or Youtube, or wherever)

As luck would have it I wrote an article that covers exactly this on my free video editing website. It will give you the steps to follow as well as pointing out all the tools you need (free of course)

The short answer is 'DVD -Videosoft' as a tool, along with something like 'Videospin' to edit your AVi's.

Have a quick look at my website for more information

Hope this helps

Freevideoman