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Editing a DVD

AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So I've been given this training DVD from our corporate headquarters. It's not copy protected. I've been asked to turn one of the chapters into a shorter version for our "busy executives". No problem, I think. I run it through Handbrake and turn it into an AVI. Put the AVI into Windows Movie Maker and it can't read it. Crap. It will play in VLC. I checked Handbrake and WMM, and it seems the only format they have in common is AVI. Anyone have any suggestions?

Of course, this is for a meeting that is in 3 hours o_O

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    AVI is not a file format, it's a container for what could be any format. You'll have to rip it in handbrake to something windows movie maker can use, preferably WMV since that's what Movie Maker will end up outputting to anyway.

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  • AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Thanks wunderbar, I didn't realize that. Handbrake only shows 4 video codec options; H.264 (x264), m-peg4 (xvid), m-peg4 (ffmpeg), and vp3 (theora). Will any of those work? Xvid seems the most vanilla, so I'm going to try that. I'm trying AutoMKV right now as well.

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