Hello,
I know questions like this are very common, but I have not been able to find an answer to this specific question so I've finally gotten up the nerve to just ask.
Background: I have a bunch of VHS tapes that are home movies (not copy protected). I have converted them to DVDs with a stand alone Panasonic DVD recorder. The DVDs I get from the Panasonic recorder are typical DVDs with the Video_TS folder that contains .vob files with all the video. What I need, is to be able to select certain portions of the video and edit them out into 5 - 10 minute clips, with the audio stripped out. I then need to compress it for optimal web viewing, probably on YouTube, but possibly also on my own web site. At some point I would also want to take some of these clips and edit the best ones together into a "pretty" DVD with titles etc. for viewing on standalone DVD players for regular TV. I have hours and hours of DVD footage to edit down into what will probably only end up being a couple hours of footage.
So I need an application that can (hopefully) let me select a specific portion of the .vob file to convert to some editable format. And also, hopefully I can edit it without converting it multiple times. And then I'd like to be able to convert it into a compressed-for-web format that is compatible with Windows and Mac.
I have seen solutions that require 1. ripping software, 2. conversion software and 3. editing software. What I was hoping is that there was a solution that combined all of these things into one. I don't mind paying for it if it can do all these things, but as you can see, I have very simple needs, and am not looking for a serious film-making tool.
Can anyone help me out here? Also, if one application does not exist, what are the best 2 application solutions? Before I got my Mac (2.2GHz MBP) I started the process on my PC and I used a combination of an application called Auto GK and an application called Virtual Dub that worked pretty well, but these don't work for Mac. I guess I just find this whole thing a bit confusing, and I'm looking for the simplest way possible to get this done.
Thank you for listening (if you've gotten this far) and I hope that someone will be able to help me out.
Jess
I know questions like this are very common, but I have not been able to find an answer to this specific question so I've finally gotten up the nerve to just ask.
Background: I have a bunch of VHS tapes that are home movies (not copy protected). I have converted them to DVDs with a stand alone Panasonic DVD recorder. The DVDs I get from the Panasonic recorder are typical DVDs with the Video_TS folder that contains .vob files with all the video. What I need, is to be able to select certain portions of the video and edit them out into 5 - 10 minute clips, with the audio stripped out. I then need to compress it for optimal web viewing, probably on YouTube, but possibly also on my own web site. At some point I would also want to take some of these clips and edit the best ones together into a "pretty" DVD with titles etc. for viewing on standalone DVD players for regular TV. I have hours and hours of DVD footage to edit down into what will probably only end up being a couple hours of footage.
So I need an application that can (hopefully) let me select a specific portion of the .vob file to convert to some editable format. And also, hopefully I can edit it without converting it multiple times. And then I'd like to be able to convert it into a compressed-for-web format that is compatible with Windows and Mac.
I have seen solutions that require 1. ripping software, 2. conversion software and 3. editing software. What I was hoping is that there was a solution that combined all of these things into one. I don't mind paying for it if it can do all these things, but as you can see, I have very simple needs, and am not looking for a serious film-making tool.
Can anyone help me out here? Also, if one application does not exist, what are the best 2 application solutions? Before I got my Mac (2.2GHz MBP) I started the process on my PC and I used a combination of an application called Auto GK and an application called Virtual Dub that worked pretty well, but these don't work for Mac. I guess I just find this whole thing a bit confusing, and I'm looking for the simplest way possible to get this done.
Thank you for listening (if you've gotten this far) and I hope that someone will be able to help me out.
Jess
