is dvd dycrpter neccessary when converting dvd to avi?

[kenny_kendall]

hi i was wondering if someone would be able to answer this question - it may sound dumb but i am new to this

i wanted to rip my dvds so i purchased a avi to dvd converter to do this.
i thought everything was fine when the clips were made into avi files and were successfully imported into my vegas movie studio 9 software program
however, now that the project is finished, the final video is not displaying those dvd files - everything else is fine but the dvd files are blank
is this becuase i didnt use dvd dycrpter during this process?
Is the reasons the files are blank becuase they are protected by copyright or something?

please help!!

[The Origonal Head Hunter]

purchased

BWAHAHAHAHA

And no, that isn't necessarily the problem. the problem is your converter turned the files into something lossy, which means quality is lost to make it usable for playback. What you want to do is convert your files to something lossless, like lagarith or huffyuv.

[kenny_kendall]

omg thankyou soooo much!!
you are so smart

ur my new hero

[kenny_kendall]

ok i downloaded the first one you said and it works, but the it makes the files sizes WAY to large 150 MB per minute :S
sorry dont mean to be a pain

[JaddziaDax]

you wanna make clips like so:

/me posts the jaddziadax quote this time >.>

use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room

[kenny_kendall]

i didnt quite get that, but with your picture are you saying i should download that program to resize my files so that they are a smaller size?

[JaddziaDax]

well if you have the amvapp you will have both dvd decryptor AND virtualdub Mod... pretty much what I'm saying is that you decrypt the dvd with dvd decryptor and use virtualdub mod to compress it to lossless and use those buttons to make short clips instead of trying to convert the whole vob... takes more planning but saves more hd space...

or you know you can always Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>