This is a mini tutorial meant to be used in combo with Kambodianboi's excellent avi to gif tutorial. If you're like me, you have a bunch of movies with potential animated sigs throughout. With this tutorial, you can extract the vob files containing the clip you wish to use for a sig, then convert them to avi and import them into Windows Movie Maker and ImageReady. Kam's tutorial can be found here. This can be done with Winavi by itself. Thanks to isuck for pointing this out to me. I tested it out, and you can indeed use a single program to convert vob files to avi format. WinAvi gets better all the time.

You will need:

WinAvi


Guide

1. Insert the DVD which contains the scene you wish to use inWinAvi in combo with some form of copyright circumvention like AnyDVD, DVD Region+CSS Free, DVD43, etc.

Windows Movie Maker can handle avi fines encoded with an Xvid/Divx encoder, ImageReady cannot. So if you convert video files to avi with a Xvid/Divx encoder your DVD-ROM drive.

2. Open WinAvi.

3. Click the avi button.



4. Browse to your DVD Drive. Double click the DVD which contains the files you want to convert.



5. Double Click the Video TS folder.



6. Double Click the vob files that contain the clip you want to convert.



7. You'll see a menu like this. Select an output directory. Click advanced.



8. You'll see this menu. Uncheck spilt the output file. Check keep the original size and set the video sample rate to 30. Click ok.



9. Once you're back at the main menu. Click ok.



10. Sit tight while it converts. This'll take around 20 minutes. For best results, close all programs during the conversion process.



Once it's done, you'll have an avi file you can load into Windows Movie Maker, trim down, and use Kam's tutorial to convert to an animated gif.

Final Notes:

To pull a clip off a copy protected DVD, you'll need to use Winavi in combo with some form of copyright circumvention like AnyDVD, DVD Region+CSS Free, DVD43, etc.

If you use an Xvid/Divx encoder to convert your video files to avi, then you'll need to import the files into Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker handles Xvid/Divx encoded avi files fine, ImageReady doesn't. Save them as a dv avi file with Kam's tutorial, then they're ready for ImageReady.

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Nice guide Lord Sesshormaru

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Nice guide, as usual great work from you Lord Sesshomaru

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Thanks. Lemme add, apparently you can use Winavi to extract and convert vob files off DVD, without IsoBuster. Credit goes to isuck for pointing this out to me. I haven't tried it that way myself, but it should save people a couple extra steps. Thanks isuck.

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