I need to copy a personal dvd to raw avi for editing. Is there a (free) software that can do that?
I just need it to be a raw avi. I have a editing program.
Thanks in advance.
I´ve installed it but it seems there isnt a option for raw avi. Just xvid and divx. The file should be about 5 gigs big after decoding. Thats cause it doesnt make any compression of any kind.
If there was no compression of any kind, it would likely be much, much more than just 5 gigs.
Of course, this is assuming we’re talking about an average feature film.
I have 400 gigs. That should be enough.
Anyone?
May I ask what for? What’s on your DVD is MPEG4 anyway, so why bother ripping it raw? It’s not like the quality’s gonna be any better. And if you use DivX, you’re likely to not even notice the difference.
SmartRipper can be used to rip the contents of a DVD to your HDD, then you could use FlaskMPEG to encode to AVI. Both are freeware and FlaskMPEG is Open source iirc.
timmeh
DVD-Shrink might do what you want (I seem to remember it can write to avi). It will also split the film up into chunks of any size you like, that could make editting a lot easier.
Seems to be some legal wrangling going on, so it may not be legal to use where you are (it can rip out copy protection), however, if you are using it for legal means then I wouldn’t let that bother you.
(Since the makers can’t host it in the US there is no point giving a link, just google it - latest stable version is 3.2.0.15)
Alex
EDIT: oh yeah, it’s freeware
[disclaimer: assuming Windows OS for the following tips:]
Another option is to google a little app called DVD2AVI. This will let you encode the footage to any AVI codec you want (dunno about raw, tho) and allow you to set “in” and “out” points as well, so you don’t have to get the whole thing if you don’t want to. Don’t know how it handles protected content, tho.
Alternately, see this thread about using Mplayer/mencoder to simply grab the MPEG2 off the disk w/out re-encoding it (much less quality loss, if any.) Again, not sure if this method works with protected content. IIRC, you’ll also need an AC3 audio codec installed to get the sound with this method.
If your platter is protected, use Alex’s tip about DVD-Shrink (the best effin little app ever written for DVD-related stuff, IMHO!) above to rip it to an ISO file, then use DAEMON Tools to mount the ISO as a virtual drive, and select one of the above options to rip what you want from there.
Hope this helps…
Well I have been looking all day and all of them programs are compressing the files to divx or svcd and so on. I want it uncompressed cause I don´t want to loose any quality.
The problem is when you try to work with encoded movies it goes very very slow. Simply impossible to work with.
About the dvds. Its my friends and there are 8 of them and its a wedding. 16 hours of wedding. Need to be shorten to 2 hours.
Now my friend is taking over the search.
Thanks for the links. I hope he has any use of them.
I’ve always used SmartRipper to get the VOB files, then DVD2AVI to convert them to AVI. RAW (uncompressed) AVI should be an option in DVD2AVI, at least it was on my system.
Then you definitely want to go with the mplayer/mencoder option (see link above for more info…) There are video editors which will edit MPEG2 quite well (I use Pinnacle Studio 9.x for this, tho I cannot recommend it because its so buggy.)
Its likely to go even slower with raw AVIs… Most consumer-level editors are geared to work with DV-AVI encoded video. If you do end up re-encoding your footage to avi, your life will be much easier if you encode to this codec. (For example, Pinnacle Studio won’t even import raw AVI to its timeline in many cases.) Panasonic has a free DV codec available (more info here.) This is a high quality and fast codec (DV-AVI what most miniDV camcorders employ when they do a firewire capture to a PC.) Believe me, if you’re looking to work 16hrs of video into a 2hr program, you don’t wanna go uncompressed! Even with 400GB of space!
16 hours and you want RAW avi format?
By encoding in Divx and setting it up right you shouldnt loose anyquality at all.
I dont think 400GB of space will do. Think about it.
For example say the resolution of the video was 1024x768 = 768,432 x 25 (25frames as second) = 19,660,800 x 57,600 = 1,132,462,080,000/8x1024x1024x1024 = 131.836GB
Well what do you know it does :D.
I agree with mzungu to go with a DV codec. It is the preferred editing format. Yes, it is technically a lossy codec but professionals use it and if they are happy with it then I guess it must be OK. One problem you might have with raw formats is disk throughput.
An alternative to dv is motion jpeg but it offers a 3:1 compression as opposed to DV’s 5:1 and they get similar quality output.
An alternative to both for Mac users is Pixlet (developed by Pixar). It is also lossy but boasts a 20-25:1 compression ratio.
In many ways, mjpeg, dv and Pixlet are lossless if you are just chopping up the video because they don’t use inter-frame dependency but they are also lossless if you set the compression to 100% quality. If you are doing more than just chopping then you can use the following lossless codecs, which may offer better compression than the above.
If it absolutely has to be lossless then I think the Huffyuv codec is the popular choice:
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html
Check here for some info:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/video4.htm
Alternatively you can use sheervideo but I don’t think it’s free:
http://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/
Or MSU lossless:
http://www.compression.ru/video/ls-codec/index_en.html
or ensharpen:
http://www.techsmith.com/products/ensharpen/default.asp
or blackmagic codecs:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/
More likely the standard NTSC 720x480 @ 29.97fps of your average camcorder (in the US).
Speaking of which - if the footage was shot with an average camcorder, any quality issues introduced by compression will likely go un-noticed. The quality of the CCDs in these things is usually somewhat lacking. (The 3-CCD units fare better, but only slightly.)
Additionally, since the footage has evidently already been burned to DVD, your biggest quality hit has already occured with MPEG-2 compression, particularly if it has been encoded at a rate which will allow a full 2 hours of footage per disk. I’d say: don’t re-encode at all, but find an editor that will work with MPEG-2, and stick with that format. Depending on the editor, you may get away with minimal re-encoding (thus minimizing addtional quality loss.)
Thanks for the input guys. I think the resulution was 704x5?? or someting like that. But the quality is horrible. I looks like vhs quality. I think they recorded it in 16:9 then remade it to 4:3.
I think they recorded it from dv camera -> vhsrecorder -> dvdrecorder. So it really bad quality. Thats why we dont want to make it even worse.
I´ll tell my friend about the links.
Yikes! That explains your concern! VHS cuts the rez in like half! No chance of laying hands on the original miniDV tapes?
Good luck with it, I hope the project is a success! Keep us posted on how it comes out…
I’d recommend putting the video stream through a cleaning and edge-sharpening filter to remove the grain that was caused by the VHS tape conversion.
I think VirtualDub is a good option if you can’t get your hands on any commercial apps. My dad has a few semi-professional video-editing programs along with conversion/encoding/decoding/IO hardware, and it beats the socks off of anything free :-? . Unfortunately, it’s anything but cheap.
Here’s something that I found on an ad-infested website:
… and the original Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=free+video+clean+sharpen+filter
[edit]
Just remembered, do a Google search on Highpass filtering for video.
Having 1 bit per pixel is kind of boring. Perhaps you should multiply it by 24 bits per pixel, which would make it around 3,2TB. 