on 9/7/04 2:59 AM, Will Schoumaker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > Thanks to all who have offered ideas. I was able to run the dvd player through an analog to digital converter and record it back onto the hard drive with iMovie. Then I took frames and made stills. They turned out okay, but kind of grainy. I'm going to take some time tomorrow to see if I can go back and save each frame as a Mac Pict file instead of compressing it into a JPG. Then I'm going to save it at a much higher resolution. After that I'll PhotoShop it a little with Photoshop Elements. Maybe I can make them a little better. The kid who took the video had most of it on his hard drive. He sent me the raw video files on a dvd. I may try to run it into iMovie or Final Cut Express and see if I can get a better copy that way. Even as it stands now, I was able to get some excellent shots of my son, Joey from this summer. Thanks again. Mike
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