Need help with DVD footage problem

mystryl_shada · Post by **mystryl_shada** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:20 am

OK, this problem may have already been answered in other posts or in a tutorial, but since I'm computer illiterate and don't understand a word of those tutorials, I have to ask here in hopes of someone having helpful insight that I can comprehend.

So here's the problem. I've just ripped the entirety of Fullmetal Alchemist in hopes to finally use DVD footage for AMVs. The program I used was Magic DVD Ripper, which doesn't have all the bells and whistles that other programs do, because it's for computer illiterate wimps like me. I know this might end up with problems, but they're the only files I have (I won't have access to the DVDs again for a long time). When it ripps a DVD, all the eps are crammed into one super-huge mpeg file. I'm trying to get them edited down so that each ep is its own file.
I can't use Adobe Premier. Every time I load the file into the editing window, the sound gets skewed. I don't know how to keep it from doing that. It doesn't help that I haven't used Premier much because it's not user-friendly and it always crashes on me. I would prefer to use Movie Maker, at least for chopping the files into smaller one-ep-only sizes, but I can't, due to my getting this error message every time I try to import the file: "(file)could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from."

Can someone tell me what the heck that means? And how I could possibly fix it? Or how I can fix the unsyched sound in Premier? I've been all over the help files for both programs, but I can't find anything to explain my problems.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:47 am

Try this method: DVD Ripping courtesy of JaddziaDax.

Do you need the audio from the show? I personally replace the original audio with music.

mystryl_shada · Post by **mystryl_shada** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:02 am

I can't rip the DVDs again, not for a long time. Someone else has them, and I won't get them back for months. I need to figure out how to deal with what I've got. Besides, unless I have someone looking over my shoulder and explaining things, those tutorials confuse the heck out of me. I'm a computer moron when it comes to DVD ripping.
I'm trying to get them down into single-ep versions, partly so they're easier to edit, and partly because I'll be able to watch them on my computer better. My computer has a tendancy to freeze when I watch the large 4 ep files. That's why I'd like the sound to sychronize; otherwise I'd just use Premier to chop them up and ignore the sound being off (lol, yeah...the point of AMVs would be to have music instead of sound, huh? ^_^). I'd also like to lend a copy of the series out to my sister, but to do that I need to get it all to fit on CDs...another reason I need the sound to sync.

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:46 am

sounds like you coud use an AVS Scripting guide... i cant look it up right now, but what you need to do it install the amv app and get avisynth, then you'll need to make avs scripts (yours would be more complex because you want each episode in a seperate file) then you would convert the avs scripts to fake avi files using FFDShow, then you should be able to use them in wmm, although its quite slow....

an easier way, if you have the space... convert them to avi files using virtualdub. quality prolly isnt your main consern *as im guess you need space* so i would suggest using the codec Microsoft Mpeg 4 v2. It should be able to import into WMM, and you'll lose a little bit of quality but not much.. also the size is a little bigger then some divx files... but hey, it practially is divx...

the guide at http://cb-r.org/Guides.htm shows how to rip and edit with a dvd, but if your going to use virtual dub to convert the files into avi files, just follow the Virtual Dub Guide and Disable Audio, and use the Microsoft Mpeg 4 V2 codec instead of Xvid... Also you'll want to max out the kbps *i think it goes 20 6000kbps* and make 1 keyframe per second, or else you wont be able to edit with it...

mystryl_shada · Post by **mystryl_shada** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:09 am

I tried the avisynth method, but all I ended up with was a video clip with no sound and lines through the video...if it played at all. Usually it just froze my windows media player. I couldn't even upload it into WMM; something about not having the right codec.

I tried to load my ripped files into virtualdub and succeeded in turning them into avis, but you weren't kidding when you said I needed file space. The 220 GBs left on my 300 gig hard drive filled up with five ep's worth of converting. Yikes, lol. I tried using my TMGPEncoder to turn them back into 250 mb mpegs, but they always ended up freezing Media Player.

So...did I do anything wrong in converting with virtual dub? Or is there a special program that I need to turn the 42 GB files into a file that'll actually fit on a CD?

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:55 am

compress them with lagarith in vdub.
40 gigs becomes less than 15.
and no, a full episode in lossless will not fit on a cd

mystryl_shada · Post by **mystryl_shada** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:26 pm

Compressed them, but that still doesn't solve my overall problem. At least they're smaller though, thanks!

I can get the clips to work in Premier, but I still can't save them as Mpegs or anything that I can back up to CD. Importing them to Moviemaker makes it crash, ditto Media player. They keep saying an "unknown error has occured and (program) needs to close".