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SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, Premiere and/or Windows Media Maker (plus the proper codecs for compression) is *all* you need to make a vid from a DVD. That, and a song, an idea, and a bit of bloody mindedness.

[General Technical Info, from Getting Started all the way to End Product]
This set of guides are really long and comprehensive. BUT DON'T PANIC! Read them slowly, take breaks to practice, and refer back repeatedly when you get in a rut.
- Vidding 101
- Guide to Easy Songvidding
- Vidding on a computer and Vidding on analog, the technical stuff is rather scary but DON'T PANIC. It's managable.
- A&E's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video, has been renewed and revised and it's very long and very very comprehensive.


[DVD RIPPING issues]
- Vidding from a DVD and advises one avoids Pinnacle if you're looking for a capture card.
- This site gives a step-by-step to DVD ripping with links to the appropriate programs. I found the last four progams to be unnecessary, all I used is DVD2AVI (which takes up very little space and is fairly low tech). However, you won't get sound without major fiddling that I didn't bother to figure out and the bigger files may be a bit annoying with DVD2AVI.
- ripping on a Mac, various answers in the comments
- a GOOD, EASY guide to using GordianKnot for ripping to DivX
- useful vidding/ripping information.
- Virtual Dub and encoding
- that Multipass 1stPass/NthPass thing for Divx explained.
- astolat's lists her hardware setup
- Splitting source using Virtual Dub
- DVD ripping/conversion question (answers in the comments)


[CROSS-PLATFORM/CONVERSION issues]
- Viewing wmv files on Mac's
- Converting .wmv to .rm.
- Converting a bunch of realplayer files to either avi, wmv, or mpeg
- What are your reccomendations for programs to convert avi to mpeg? (answers in comments)
- Converting .ogg to .avi


[SOUND issues]
- resolving sound issues in WMM
- Not that it's one hundred percent necessary in vidding, but if you're going to be mixing/altering songs, you'd probably would want what rahalia_cat explains as Exact Audio Copy, which removes all the random clicks and buzzes.


[EXPORTING issues]
- How to compress vids on WMM
- working through Premiere's encoding issues (the original problem can be found here)
- getting past exporting problems in Premiere
- Virtual Dub and encoding
- authoring DVDs
- putting vids into MPEG-2 format
- Virtual Dub encoding, aspect ratio problems
- Adobe Premiere "encounters a problem" on rendering a vid


[Miscellanious issues]
- how to Create a Watermark
- how to remove the DivX watermark
- how to get rid of video hitches when you flip horitzontally in iMovie on OS9
- the project trimmer in Premiere...
- Info on MPEG-4
Quickie explaination of avisynth and it's implications


[Before you start vidding...]
- What is Clip Theft and why you just shouldn't do it
- further post on clip theft
- Random things learned from vidding that's good to know before one dives in.
- some common misconceptions about vidding 'rules'.
- with newbie advice from the school of tough love, or as I like to call it 'Ya Need to Develop your Inner Snape'


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