Hi All

I work for a number of schools and they are always trying to enhance their
pupils' learning with visual/interactive stuff instead of boring old school
methods.

They were doing topics on World War II and the teachers wanted to cut out
video clips of famous films, eg Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbour, etc, so
that the compiled content would be OK for young eyes.

Problem is the current crop of 'stick a DVD, select a chunk, extract it and
save it as a video file' software appears to be rubbish!

The only decent one that I managed to find was a prog called MovAvi that was
simple to use and was OK for screenshots, but the left and right marker
function that allows the user to grab a snippet of video is crap. Everytime
you move the left marker it bounces back to the beginning again there is no
fluid movement with it.

Any ideas on better software for this specific task, whilst at the same time
not being a newbie's nightmare and a techie's dream?

Thanks

Re: simplest app to cut out bits of a dvd and screenshots by Graham

Graham
Tue Sep 25 07:38:14 CDT 2007

Adobe premiere elements 3
Ulead video studio 11
Pinnacle video Studio 11

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


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>
> Hi All
>
> I work for a number of schools and they are always trying to enhance their
> pupils' learning with visual/interactive stuff instead of boring old
> school
> methods.
>
> They were doing topics on World War II and the teachers wanted to cut out
> video clips of famous films, eg Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbour, etc,
> so
> that the compiled content would be OK for young eyes.
>
> Problem is the current crop of 'stick a DVD, select a chunk, extract it
> and
> save it as a video file' software appears to be rubbish!
>
> The only decent one that I managed to find was a prog called MovAvi that
> was
> simple to use and was OK for screenshots, but the left and right marker
> function that allows the user to grab a snippet of video is crap.
> Everytime
> you move the left marker it bounces back to the beginning again there is
> no
> fluid movement with it.
>
> Any ideas on better software for this specific task, whilst at the same
> time
> not being a newbie's nightmare and a techie's dream?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>