Wedding dvd to You Tube video - how?

[beanzontoast]

I've been asked if I can -
1) extract several small sections from a wedding dvd and
2) turn them into one file that can be put on You Tube. It needs to have captions / simple (fading in-out I'm thinking) transitions between the sections.

Haven't done this before, but I'm up for having a go. What software am I looking at using to achieve this? Is it difficult?

Is it going to cost me or are there freeware solutions that people can recommend?

Cheers.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I use the Cucusoft ultimate DVD converter. It converts video into, among others, MP4 format and you can isolate sections of the video. I think it cost me around £40, but it was worth it as it also allows me to convert DVDs into a format my ipod is happy with. In my experience, most of the free ones give you a video with "FREE SAMPLE" plastered all over the footage.
Hope this helps.

 

[beanzontoast]

Thanks, RT. £40 isn't bad - especially as once I've worked out how to do it, I can get more use out of it.

Presumably you can specify the codec used and change resolution if needed?

Any others with suggestions?

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

You might be able to do it using MovieMaker, but it depends on the format of the original video file. You may have to transfer/transcode it into a DivX file (or other format that MM can handle) and then you can simply split it and add the captions etc.

 

[ufkacbln]

IMovie will do the job nicely.

Alternatively Quick time can trim and export the sections - then reload these into MovieMaker

 

[beanzontoast]

Thanks both

Sharkey - Not used Movie Maker a lot in the past - just fired it up and tried importing an .flv (had one handy) but it keeps crashing for some unknown reason. Is it prone to this?

Cunobelin - I'm on pc rather than Mac unfortunately.