grabbing/editing from VCD

[apintrix]

hiya! I'm new around here. Have a video idea burning a hole in my head, and all of Escaflowne on VCD. Is there a way to grab/ edit movie from VCDs? (I've never done any editing at all, so I realize I'm in way over my head already, but it never hurts to try!)

Alternatively, is anyone willing to work on a single video with a college grad and general artsy-fart type in the cambridge, MA area?

[The Non-Professional]

A VCD eally isnt the best thing to work with for source footage, Id suggest getting ahold of the DVDs and ripping those. but has for as ripping the VCD, i have no idea.

[Zarxrax]

Get virtualdub and the huffyuv video codec, then just convert the .dat files on your vcds into huffyuv avis.

[apintrix]

Zarxrax, thanks for the (speedy!) advice-- I tried to get the huffyuv codec but failed. Got a readme file and no installer. Does anyone know where to get it, or is anyone willing to put it up somewhere I can grab it?

[Zarxrax]

To install it you need to extract all the files, right click on the .inf file and choose install.

[apintrix]

right-- I did the right click-install (said in the readme--doh.) but I got no executable files.
Sorry to keep bothering!

[NicholasDWolfwood]

It ain't a binary file.

It's a Right-click on INF -> INstall -> Installs DLL type of thing. Yeah.

[Zarxrax]

Huffuv will now be selectable in virtualdub under video>compression

[apintrix]

thanks again-- all working now. Hurrah!

[Azen_Dragonus]

That's perdy good info to know..

*jotting everything down*