Capturing Footage from DVD's

[everdred12a]

Does anyone know of a reliable, and preferably free program that can capture footage directly from a DVD? I want to make AMV's using the anime I own and I unfortunately have Windows (I wish I could use Final Cut!!) and I don't have any experience with Windows DV editing. Any help is appreciated!

[Slater]

I have yet to find one that you have to pay for that's actually good. The closest program I've found rips video beautifully but horribly desynchs the audio.

[everdred12a]

I'm not so worried about audio problems because I probably won't leave the original audio in. What program are you talking about?

[CreatureArt]

There's a tutorial I found somewhere once upon a time that goes through all the steps and has links to the freeware you need to download. I made an AMV using it, and it gave reasonable quality and audio. I'll just try to find the link.

Here we go.
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd2vcd_with_smart_dvd2avi_tmpgenc.cfm

It's titled DVD to VCD, but I just used it to convert the DVD format to Avi. Hope that's helpful.

[everdred12a]

The DVD ripping poriton of the tutorial was down.... anyone know of something else like it?

[Ingemar]

http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

This is what I use for my DVD footage in AMV's. My only problem is that audio is usually nonexistent or crap. But if you are making an AMV, that shouldn't be a problem.

[everdred12a]

I got the program, but the picture is highly distorted (not grainy or anything, but actually distorted). Is there any way to get around it?