Export/Burn Clips from DVD Player

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Export/Burn Clips from DVD Player

Hi,

I've got about 20 clips setup in DVD Player (using the 'Video Clips' feature) on my mac from home movie DVD's.

I'd like to be able to export the clips and then burn a new DVD. Does anyone know if that's possible either via DVD Player or an additional piece of software.

Also if it means buying different player software that supports both the making of clips on a DVD and exporting them to burn then any advice on that would be great also.

Thanks.

Posted on Sep 2, 2010 7:29 AM

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Digitdemon Author

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Sep 7, 2010 3:50 PM in response to Digitdemon

If it's not possible within Apples DVD Player, does anyone know of anything else I could use?

Thanks.

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A.Carlo

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Sep 7, 2010 4:02 PM in response to Digitdemon

DVD Player video clips are simply bookmarks. DVD Player cannot export, burn, or edit videos from your optical discs. Anyway, you wouldn't be able to read the source DVD and simultaneously burn to a blank DVD, unless you have two optical drives

Did iLife not come with your Mac? You should be using iMovie for what you're doing. After you import into iMovie, edit your clips, then use iDVD to burn the disc.

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Digitdemon Author

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Sep 7, 2010 4:10 PM in response to A.Carlo

Yes it did, but it's a friend that's not that clued up on anything too much further than what they're already doing.

They used DVD Player and it's bookmark/clip features to easily skip around just what they need to play from home movies, but I was hoping they'd be a way of exporting them, guess not.

Have you heard of another piece of DVD software that both allows bookmarking/clips, but also the ability to export the clips to the internal HD, therefore not requiring a second optical drive.

Alternatively they could run the DVD from an image file and then burn straight to disk if that was the only option.

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A.Carlo

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Sep 7, 2010 6:22 PM in response to Digitdemon

Digitdemon wrote:
Have you heard of another piece of DVD software that both allows bookmarking/clips, but also the ability to export the clips to the internal HD, therefore not requiring a second optical drive.

I take it you're trying to avoid using a video editor. Unfortunately, what you're trying to do is video editing (non-linear at that). Since you've mentioned running the DVD off an image file (.dmg presumably), then you really should just use iMovie.

iMovie will recognize the mounted .dmg as a camera. You can then import the movie into editable format (DVD video is not editable in its native mpeg-2 format). Once imported, you can play the movie, select clips from it, and export to a file or burn to disc.

For example, with your movie visible in the event window (keyboard shortcut method 'cause I suck with a mouse):
Hit \ (backslash) to begin playing from the beginning
Hit Spacebar to pause where you want a clip to begin
Hit ⇧→ (shift + right-arrow) to mark this point
Hit Spacebar to resume playback
Hit Spacebar to pause where you want the clip to end
Hit ⇧→ to mark this point
Hit E to set this clip

Do this for as many clips as you want. Make sure to Save (⌘S) your project regularly. When you're done, export to a file or burn to DVD (this will require iDVD).

Note: You might want to delete your project afterwards to recover hard drive space.

I've not looked into other DVD authoring software 'cause iMovie suits my simple needs. I've tried Googling for something that does the transcoding (importing to editable format) and resequencing (stringing your clips in order and deleting unwanted footage) in the background as you wanted, but couldn't find any. I also don't know of any DVD rippers that can read DVD Player's bookmarks and stream them to a burnable file.

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