for example: i cooked up this list real quick. if a list such as this were sticky,ed in the how to thread it would have saved me countless hours of research and trial and error testing of various software. does anyone else think we should have a sticky like this?

a list of useful video/audio software for fan editing.

originaltrilogy.com membership for tech support and general fanediting discussion.free

anydvd for dvd ripping and copy protection removal-pay

or dvd43 for dvd ripping-free

dvddecrypter for demuxing video/audio from vob files-free

imgburn for creating image files and burning dvd-r discs-free

virtualdubmpeg2 for extracting vob files to lossless avi.-free

avisynth for making avs scripts-free

avspmod an avisynth script editor-free

besweet and belight for .ac3 to .wav conversion-free

ac3fix for various audio tools-free

dgmpgdec for indexing mpeg files-free

dgpulldown for 3:2 pulldown work-free

huffyuv lossless avi codec-free

lagarith lossless avi codec-free

sub workshop for creating soft subtitles-free

vobsub for subtitle work-free

cce/cinema craft encoder an mpeg2 encoder for high quality video conversion to dvd format-pay

tmpgenc for encoding to mpeg2-pay/free trial

hcencoder for mpeg2 encoding-free

of course this is just a rough idea of how the list would be but we could add or remove as needed with the help of the ot members. i think its a good idea.