Capture Short Video Clips from Long DVD

[vidlid]

Would sincerely appreciate any assistance you can provide.

I'm trying to produce a 5 minute sports highlight video. It will be a mix of clips shot on my HDC-SD10 camcorder and clips pulled from a 1.5 hour game video on DVD. I am running Corel VideoStudio Pro X4.

Immediate challenge is importing clips from the game video on DVD. I don't want to download the entire game from the DVD just to pull 5 five-second clips. Unfortunately, entire game is one "chapter" on the DVD, so I can't just import a particular chapter. I've looked through the Corel manual, but can't find anything. How can I pull short clips from one long file?

Thanks for your thoughts.

[teknisyan]

If you have a screen capture software then you can just play the dvd and capture the part that you want to include in your video. Since VS X5 now has a screen capture feature, then you can try using the trial of VS X5 to capture the clip that you are referring. Then just insert it to your project using VS X4 that you have.

You can download the trial of VS X5 from http://www.corel.com/videostudio

[BrianCee]

When I wanted to do the same thing I played the DVD in my stand alone DVD player with the RCA outlets connected to my PC via a USB capture device (could be direct to your PC if it has RCA inputs) - then just started and stopped the capture at the bits I wanted. In retrospect though I'm not sure it was the easiest thing to do - I think next time I'll capture the whole DVD and just edit it to get the bits I want.