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Basically just like the title says... I have a project for school in which I need to insert clips from a DVD into a Powerpoint, and I was wondering if anyone in here knew of the best way to do this. The only two options I have are a program that does it (but costs $$) or ripping the entire thing into an AVI and editing in clips from that (which costs time ). Thanks in advance for any help!

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Anyone...?

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1. Rip the whole DVD to your harddrive, but only convert the sections you want into AVI?

2. Rip the whole DVD to your harddrive, and use ChopperXP to extract the clips from the DVD VOB files?

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Moth3r replied while I was typing. Might as well post it, with a few edits, in case you want to make wmv clips, or mpeg, or something else besides vob.

ChopperXP is neat. I hadn't tried it until now. That faq seems to imply that it'll decrypt DVDs. But, while it reads one of my unencrypted DVDs directly, it then freezes on an encrypted one.

So if it won't read your's directly, rip it with Dvd Decrypter first. Follow that part of ADM's editing guide, with one exception - don't put a checkmark in the "Enable Stream Processing", so you can rip it to vob.

You can convert the vobs to avi with VirtualDubMod. It can also clip the VOBs to AVI. (Use the slider to find the good parts of each vob, mark the beginning and end with those two buttons on the right - the ones with those arrow-with-half-arrowheads symbols).

I'd save them to Huffyuv (lossless), before converting them to wmv (or another codec). That'll give you perfect AVIs to experiment from. Right-click the .inf and select "Install". Select the codec in Virtualdubmod: Video -> Compression. Virtualdubmod (or Virtualdub, or Virtualdubmpeg) can also convert to any other codec you can get the compression codec for. (Not wmv, Quicktime, or Real Media).

I haven't made wmv's yet, so I can't tell you much about it. Windows Media Encoder.

I'm not sure if mpeg1 comes with Windows, or needs a codec installed, to play it. TMPGEnc makes mpeg1's for free, or mpeg2's on a 30-day-trial.

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Wow, I really don't know how to thank you guys... I've been wanting something like this for a long time for other projects but never knew how... haha. I wish had known it would be this easy. Thanks a lot and hopefully this will help someone else!

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