How to Easily Extract Videos From a DVD For Editing

Would you edit a DVD or perhaps take a part of the DVD to be edited with other video-foot ages? Do you know that you do not need software to extract clips from a DVD? You can even do it yourself buy. All you need is your PC with a DVD drive. In this tutorial you will learn how to extract video from a DVD on a PC running Windows XP. Steps to copy videos from a DVD: DVD City DVD drive in your PC. The DVD is about one minutes to run and tax depending on the speed of your disk. Turn any video player that appears automatically. Most PCs are configured to detect a DVD in the drive and start playing by the launch of a DVD video player. From the "Start" button, open "My Computer". This is the easy way into your DVD data. You can also use file explorer. Enable "Folder" view in the "My Computer" window. If you do not activate Folder, click on the DVD drive can activate the DVD-Video Player. The folder view is actually the File Explorer. Select the DVD drive. Click the drive letter or icon that represents your DVD. You will see at least 2 folders named "AUDIO_TS" and "VIDEO_TS". Select "VIDEO_TS" folder. You will see a number of files, but take note of the "PDB" files. Create a new folder on your PC. You want the VOB files to this folder. Want the video files from the DVD and your PC. Drag the VOB files to the new folder you created. It will take a few minutes to transfer files and video files can be very large. A good hour of video can 4 GB in size. Done! The VOB files are video clips that can be deleted from your video-editing software to edit like any other video clips. If your video editing software does not recognize VOB files, just rename the files by changing the ". VOB" to ". MPG". VOB files are technically MPEG2 files. Note that this technique will not work on copy protected DVDs.