Video Editing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> I have a 10 minute corporate video on DVD which I would like to edit 
> for length and content. I will be cutting out about half of it and 
> will be adding some still images to it. A friend ripped the DVD into 
> WMV format. I can also rip it into various formats with VLC. Once it 
> is in some format like that, what do you suggest I can use to edit 
> that video? I want to be able to separate the soundtrack, which is 
> just stock music, from the video and then add the soundtrack back to 
> the video after I have edited the video. I can trim the soundtrack as 
> necessary then.

Well what you really want is probably the original mpeg data from the
DVD since it will have the highest quality since it won't have been
decompressed and then recompressed.  It also nicely has the audio as a
seperate stream, so to seperate the video and audio all you have to do
is demux the mpeg (vob) from the DVD and you get an mpeg audio file and
an mpeg video file.  Both should be easy to edit in any video editing
program you have, after which you can multiplex them back together (or
maybe the video editing program will do it for you).

To get the original mpeg data, either just copy the vob files, or use
dvdbackup or decss or whichever is available.  Ripping to a super lossy
wmv is not a good start before editing.

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Len Sorensen
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