Sermon from DVD to website... help a newbie out!

[Rlinger]

Ok, I've been doing sound and also projection for our church for a while. We also record our service (DVD and CD) for shut-ins, or anyone wanting to hear the service/sermon again.

As of Jan. 1st of 2012, our new website has an embedded media player, that can play either mpeg4 videos or mp3 files. Without having to buy additional hardware, I would like to take the DVD that we record, remove everything but the sermon (for licensing reasons, as far as the worship portion goes, at least until we get the license issue for playing back that part of the service taken care of) and put that onto our website for Podcasting. We currently rip our recorded CD track that contains the sermon, and use that to create our MP3 file.

Here is my problem, I've tried taking the DVD, coping it to my hard drive, then I've been playing with Lightworks to remove the parts of the service that we don't want showing on-line. I've been having problems with Lightworks exporting my new file, and when it does work, I've ended up with some really large files (like 40gb once, and 100gb the next time I tried).

My question isn't so much about Lightworks, but more, what are others doing to put their services/sermons on line? What should/could I be doing different?

Thanks!
Rob

[bpalermini]

We've stopped doing this but we used to import the video from DVD into iMovie, trim and output. It goes like this:

1. Insert the DVD you want to transfer to iMovie.
2. Launch Disk Utility.app (found in the Utilities folder under Applications).
3. Select the DVD and click the New Image icon located in the toolbar.
4. Name your image and select a save location (I normally save to the desktop).
5. Once you have your image, doubleclick to mount it.
6. Launch iMovie. The program should automatically recognize the DVD image and begin processing the files.
7. Have fun editing your video files!
8. Output in quality/format you need.

[Rlinger]

Thanks Bob, guess I should have said that I'm using Windows 7. It will cost way too much to change over to a Mac.

[waynehoskins]

It might be simpler to capture the video on-the-fly on a computer to a suitable file for any necessary editing and then distribution to the web. The system I built for my church captures audio and video live to computer and then dumps out the sermon for the web. No DVD/CD needed in the process; we can burn them after the fact if needed (though the DVD writing process is busted at the moment, but like I say we never need it).

If you want timely DVDs, it's probably good to keep the existing recorder in place, adding the computer capture beside it. (It's also great for redundancy in case one of them breaks)

[sempei13]

Is there a version of MPEG Streamclip for PC? You can mark in and out points on it and only export what you need in a variety of formats.

Paul

[Rlinger]

Ok, what software should we use to capture the video from the camera? I'm using Windows 7 Pro.

[Arlin]

I've used DVD shrink to rip from DVD...
http://www.fileserve.com/file/h3HDR2...ink32setup.zip

Note: I hate that download site... be careful of all the paid download options... you can get it free.

[Rlinger]

Thanks Arlin! I was more looking for a program to use to capture the video feed from the camera and the video capture card, to save it as a MPEG4.

I see that Lightworks can do it, but I don't think it works with the Sony camera I'm using.

[waynehoskins]

I'm capturing on a Linux system at my church, using dvgrab. I'd imagine that Premiere could do it, and maybe even VLC, under Windows.

[doulos]

Rob , this may help yu, has woked for me. Check uot Mpeg4 converters on Google or Mpeg4 editors such that you can strip the Audio from the Video in an isolated copy of the Sermon.Having isolated your audio stream, convert it to the format you like (MP3, DIVx,etc.) duplicate it to meet your needs via transfer of the small workable Audio file via whatever means back to your computer, and burn to your hearts delight i the format you desire. You can then distribute your Sermons in whatever format you wish. I have done this numerous times, for the same reason, (we do not have copyrights on the Music we perform that would permit us duplication and distribution rights, but the Sermon is original. doulos

[Rlinger]

Right now, until we can afford an upgrade, I'm using a USB capture card, which came with "PowerDirctor", which I used to capture the video from the camera. It saves as a mp4, then I took that file and opened it in Sony Vegas 11 and did my editing. It is taking a few steps, but I finally got a sermon uploaded to our website!!!

Here is a question for those still following this thread. Is there a way to do this any easier? My church has around 200-250, and we have a pretty tight budget, but if we need to upgrade any equipment, it may be something that can be done, with the proper planning. Having said that, I do need to keep the cost down a little. I'm listening to whatever advise I can get!

Thanks again!
Rob

[MnemonicMonkey]

Simply copying the file from the DVD doesn't give you a file that most editors will work with well. The suggestion to use DVD Shrink or VOB2MPEG to "rip" (copy and convert) is what you're after. Any editing would need to then be done with an editor then uploaded to your site.

Now, your last post outlines almost exactly what I did. I use HDVSplit to capture a mts stream via firewire to a portable drive. That then went home and got edited on Vegas 10 for upload to Vimeo. Now, we have a guy with a Mac that has to convert it before using Final Cut then uploading, but still essentially the same process.