From: ansberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:29:23 -0500
"Okay, I have not searched the archives for this info, but bear with me.
I just don't have a lot of extra time on my hands right now.
snips taken
Any help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.Mike "
Mike, So sorry to hear of your recent loss.
I am going to ask perhaps some dumb questions .
You have a DVD player and not just a CD player in your S900? If so do you have Apple DVD player setup to work with it? It can be made to work with any of the listed Mac Os's if you do. Also there is freeware called VLC which also plays DVD's on a Mac in OSX.
The files are most likely a form of MPEG 2 also could be MPEG 1 but 2 version is more likely if it's really a DVD . There are different subsets of MPEG 1 & 2 but since it plays on your set top DVD player it is most likely one basic type or the other.. When you get them to play on your Mac the most simple way would be to pause the pictures and take a screen shot of the screen. You of course are wanting better then that and there are ways to do it. It will require ripping the DVD to your hard drive. There are a number of share ware and free programs to do this with in OSX. Much less is available for OS 8/9.
http://www.videohelp.com (also known as www.dvdrhelp.com)
is perhaps the best site around for help with what you want to do. PC or Mac. Near the top you will see a link for forum. Click on that and go down until you find the Mac forum. If you want to be able to search the forum and or ask questions you will need to signup but it's free. You can just read them and to be sure your questions are most likely already answered here. But it may take a long time to find you answer without searching. They are a great group of helpful people. However a large number of them aren't very happy with newbies that ask questions already answered many times. So you need to search first then ask questions.
I see now you say you can see the files but they are grayed out so you must have a DVD player or burner. The files need to be in DV format (digital Video format) for any of the software you mention to see and work with them. You will be doing what is called ripping the DVD to your hard drive and converting the file to DV format where you can then edit it. A look around at the video help site finds: Cinematize is a DVD extraction tool you can use to easily extract a clip or segment off of any DVD, even a complex one, and save it in a format compatible with standard movie and audio editing software. Save audio and video tracks separately, or together as MPEG-2 or QuickTime movie files. It's not a free program but costs $50. It does however have a demo. No info on what limits the demo may have. there should also be free software to do this with. But I've not needed to do this so can't help more.
Best of luck I hope this gets you started. Will S
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