I am among the many that boldly want to recreate what is mired with so many problems and make it better. The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy : Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and (when it releases) Return of the Sith (maybe even the Clone wars series). Anyway I have an NLE: Sony Vegas 6 + DVD as well as soundforge and acid to do audio stuff. I am not sure how to get the best quality rip and work with the audio and video in Vegas. I have several soundbytes from other movies as well as a completed script with what to drop, deleted scenes to add, and new scenes (using other movies and soundbytes) to work with. Further I have dialogue that will be achieved using subtitles and I want to rewrite the scroll at the beginning. This is lofty, but I'd appreciate the help. I am very serious about the project and even have some voice actors and animators to help me do a couple of things. I've done amateur movie editing, but I need help in how to do this in Vegas...I'll also want to play with the soundfield and add different music, etc. What software will I need? Will I be working with Mpeg2, VOB, AC3 files? Again I'd appreciate step by step help if it can be given to get a lossless audio/video rip to work from and how to achieve some of things I want to do.
I am very dissapointed in this response. I am learning editing and am very serious about making it a career, I thought it'd be fun to do a fan edit and put a lot of work into it to learn all aspects and then have something I'd enjoy. Redubbing some lines, voicework, adding effects, redoing scrolls, adding some of the deleted scenes, trimming a number of things. I have put about 30 hours of work into it so far doing my scripts and getting soundbytes. Its very discouraging to get 2 responses like that. Yes, in actuality I'd love to be compared to Lucas as would you. And yes it becomes more clear to me how much he puts up with when everyone's a critic, but offers very little advice. I thought I wrote a mature question and gave background to yield a mature response. I'd still appreciate one if someone has it. Thanks you.
Can someone please give me advice, on Smartripper, decryptor, etc. I want to get the full AC3 stream and the best quality video. I don't think vegas will work with VOB directly and it says it decodes MPEG2, but not sure how well it does that.
You can get programs that rip just the audio from a DVD, selecting ehich quality you want. You dont need to use MP3 (remeber an .mp3 file is the third layer in an .mpeg movie). The best type of audio format to rip if you will be making a movie is probably the macintosh .aiff file. this file can be used in any movie making program. My advice for you with your movie making would be to use Adobe Premier. This has a more comprhensive database of effects, and you can get effects pulg-ins for a low price. When you make the movie (divx/xvid) you can have then dub your aiff audio track over top using the best program in the world MPC (meida player classic). when you are done, just use nero vision, or any other dvd burning program to make your copies on DVD.
