VS10: Is it possible to export clip as .AVI file?

[jdiamond]

I captured a scene from a DVD, and VS10 automatically made it into an MPEG file. The catch is that it's a very specific MPEG CODEC, and my other programs can't read it. So I'd like to be able to export this clip as an AVI file, but I can't find any way to do it.

Alternatively, is there anyway that VS10 can clip just a portion of a scene? Then I wouldn't need to use other editors. (While I couldn't imagine that VS10 could not, I have yet to find any way to do this.)

Thanks for your help.
- Jeff

[jdiamond]

I've now tried dozens of applications, and currently, the only program that can read the MPEG format outputted by VS10 is Windows Media Player. But unfortunately, Windows Media player also doesn't allow you to clip out a portion of a scene.

Actually, even Media Players throws an error, but it continues playing.

It says the codec being used is "LEAD MPEG2 Eval Decoder 2.0"

What's strange is that VS 10 appears to have the apparatus to clip out a part of a scene, but when I try to do it with my scene captured from a DVD, everything is grayed out.

Anyone who knows how to clip out a section of a video imported from a DVD, please help me. I've been trying hard to learn VS10, but it's stopped me at every avenue. If I can't even figure out how to do this then it's pretty much useless to me.

- Jeff

[Ron P.]

I captured a scene from a DVD, and VS10 automatically made it into an MPEG file. The catch is that it's a very specific MPEG CODEC, and my other programs can't read it. So I'd like to be able to export this clip as an AVI file, but I can't find any way to do it.

Alternatively, is there anyway that VS10 can clip just a portion of a scene? Then I wouldn't need to use other editors. (While I couldn't imagine that VS10 could not, I have yet to find any way to do this.)

Thanks for your help.
- Jeff

DVD format is MPEG2, so yes when you capture or insert video clips from a DVD, the format should be MPEG-2 DVD- compatible.

However MPEG2 is a compressed format, so to render an AVI (which is just a wrapper or container for various formats), it would need to recode it. Uncompressed AVI takes about l65 Gig per hour. DV (digital Video) AVI is slightly compressed and only requires about 13 Gig per hour. So you will need alot of HDD space if you are going to work on uncompressed video, about 150 Gig to be on the safe side.

Windows Movie Maker natively does not support playing MPEG2 format. You could play it using the free DVD player that comes with VS10+ (WinDV), or there are others such as PowerDVD. Mediaplayer Classic will play DVD's and it is a very lightweight program.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediaplrclss

Ron P.

[jdiamond]

Vidoman, thank you so much for your assistance.

However, what I am ultimately trying to do is clip out a part of a scene, and none of the programs you mentioned can do that. I was hoping VS10 could do that, but it doesn't seem to do it for a DVD scene. (One hideously cumbersome way I could do it would be to export it back onto my digicam, then recapture it at the points I wish, at which point is would automatically save it out as an AVI and then I could use Quicktime Pro to refine the selection.)

For example, say a given DVD scene is 4.54 minutes long. I'd like to clip out a section from 2:35 to 2:39 and save it as an AVI file. VS10 appears to have envisioned such a thing, but seems to not let me do it on DVD import tracks, i.e., the smallest block I cna work with is an entire scene.

[Ron P.]

You are correct that you have to import a full scene. VS refers to this as either a title or chapter. You could import just the chapter from your DVD. Then trim it down in VS, cutting out what you want.

Now I have to ask why you want to render that to an AVI? What form of AVI are you wanting, DivX, Xvid, MPEG-4, or full uncompressed? If you have the DivX codec then VS would be able to render to that, and the MPEG4 codec is included with VS10+. If you are wanting to render it to DV, it can do that too. If you are going to create a DVD from this, then I would recommend leaving it in the MPEG-2 DVD compatible format. Editing MPEG-2 is very possible, however not strongly recommended in VS. (That's an ongoing debate). Generally as long as your Project Properties match Identically that of your video clip properties, you will stand a better chance of not having problems.

After editing your imported clip, just go to Share>Create Video File, and select the format from the drop-down menu, or choose Custom. Then customize the output format you want.

Ron P.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Just a little to add to what’s already been said.

Afaik when you import the Mpeg from a DVD you are transferring the data to the pc using Video Studio.

The properties you get are the original properties of the dvd, VS has not re-coded them.
So if other programs can't read it I do not think it is a VS problem. (I may be wrong)

Video studio likes to use standard dvd compatible files.
What are the properties of the video file (right click on the clip in the timeline and select properties.)

As for cutting scenes, Video Studio is a video editor and can cut the scenes, create new video files.

Using the scissors you can cut the video in the timeline, deleting the parts you don’t need, then Share create video File.

Trevor