Editing software?

[Laspector[TK]]

I am looking to buy some dvd editing software. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on what to buy, how to use it, how complicated it is, what kind of computer you need etc. I am wanting to make a dvd of just the best and fastest action scenes from movies. Keeping in mind that some shots may be only a few seconds long. I was thinking of taking all my movies and just making one big super action dvd. Compiling shots like just fast space ships shot from Star Wars, Tron light cycles, lightsaber fight scenes, Matrix fighting, the tube car thing from Running Man, wormhole fron Star Trk TMP, wormhole from Contact, trippy scenes from Altered States, 2001, etc etc. You get the idea. I don't want to just do each scene by scene, it might be a few seconds of one scene then a few seconds from another movie, then a few seconds from another, then another, then back to the first movie for a second or two and so on.

 

I have never used any kind of computer editing software. I was aces using two VCRs and editing footage but it seems that day is gone. Could anyone point me in the right direction? I'm not worried (at this point) about adding music or anything I just want to be able to do a few seconds here and a few seconds there and so on until I have a couple hours or so of just non stop blasting action.

 

Is this even possible? Or do DVDs have some kind of guard onthem to keep you from dubbing scenes onto the computer? I'm also worried about loading time. Since I only want a few seconds of each scene here and there, will I have to change movies everytime and wait for a DVD to load and then fast forward to each scene? I am totally clueless on this project and would appreciate any advice anyone could give me.

Edited April 17, 2010 by Laspector

[dashrazor]

this is possible there are many ways to do this

 

first you need rip the dvd to .avi

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx

 

then get a video editor software to cut and join the scenes you want

 

you can purchase software (i got a few lol)Corel Video Studio is ok and easy to use, or you can do all this with VirtualDub its free

 

http://www.virtualdub.org/download

 

here is a guide on how to split them

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm'>http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm

 

here is a guide on how to join them

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/virtualdub_join_avi.cfm'>http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/virtualdub_join_avi.cfm

 

after you create the movie you will need dvd burning software i recommend Nero vision, it has cool 3d menu functions

 

also you need a lot of hard drive space, i do alot of video editing and have 600 gigs of hard drive (and i still need more space lol)for what you want to do i would say 200-300 gigs should be plenty

 

this can be tricky if you've never done anything like this, but there are plenty of online resources to help

 

http://www.videohelp.com

http://www.afterdawn.com

 

or you could get a comp geek to make it up for you lol

Edited April 17, 2010 by dashrazor

[Laspector[TK]]

Thanks for the advice. I am going to look into all of it.

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

I would download the clips that I needed from youtube and re arrange the clips by using youtube's editor.

then re-upload with a new soundtrack.