Could somebody please give me some sensible advise regarding copying and editing dvd's?
I have asked on yahoo answers but don't seem to be making any progress. People have advised me to download a whole range of programmes for eg.. ImgBurn,TotalVideo2Dvd,Nero,AVS4U,CloneDVD,CyberLink Power2Go,Windows Movie Maker,BurnAware,E.M.Easy DVD Copy,DVD Shrink 3.2 etc.. etc..
None of these programmes make any sense to me regarding Rippers/Converters/Burners etc.. As I am a computer novice.
I play in a band and have footage which is on dvd, basically I don't want to just full copy the footage, I want to copy my disks and then edit the desired material.
Question is :
1.Which is the best programme to use?
2. How do I manage it?
As someone "kindly" reminded me before that any copying of material not owned by myself is "copyright theft" and is illegal.
sorry old thing .... good info ... just the wrong info
music and video can use a number of formats.
"real" video (the commercial stuff) is generally protected ... and in an odd format - .vob
a ripper will copy the vob ... and convert it to a more PC friendly format ... (avi or mpeg).
music is the same ... the commercial stuff is in a format that doesn't sit well on a PC ... so again a ripper is used to convert it to wav, mp3 or wmv (to name just a few)
each format has advantages and disadvantages.
to edit the files ... you need a suitable editor for the format in question.
pro standard progs start at �400+
when it's how you want it ... you then need a burner to get it back onto CD or DVD
unfortunately ... you need to figure out how to use a fair number of progs to do what you want ... done well - it's skilled work and takes practice - burning is the easy bit
the media forums are the best place to start
... audacity is a good free music editor .....
I don't do video ... but one of the others will have ideas on that