Hi All,

I am fairly new to the video editing genre, but have been around DVD backup for a while. I am trying to put together a montage of various scenes/clips from several movies for a friend of mine's birthday. These would be from production movies (i.e., Groundhog Day) that I have backed up.

I have no idea how to do this!

Can anyone recommend software and/or tutorials specific to this goal?

Again, the idea is to capture a specific scenes from movies, and "splice" them together into a single file for playpack during the party.

TIA!!
Tim

DVDLAB software allows you to bring in several different video files and create menus, scene selections, background music, ect. The you compile the project into a standard DVD Format.

Thanks Robo 100. Can the output be in the form of a computer file such as .mpeg, .avi, etc.?
I want to run it from my hard drive and not a DVD.
I may also want to integrate it into a Powerpoint presntation if that's at all possible.

I beleive the output from DVDLAB is DVD compliant and nothing else, however you could play this on your PC if you have Power DVD or anyother DVD Viewer including Microsoft Media player (version 10). As far as the files that DVDLAB can bring in it will read VOB, Mpeg and AVI.

Microsoft power point needs AVI, MPEG or ASF video files so if you use DVDLAB you would have to convert the video to a different format using a video converter.

There is one minus to DVDLAB and thats the cost. For the lighter version it's $100.00 and for the full blown pro version it's $200.00, but you can try a demo of the software and see if you like it. Here is the link

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/

I bought the full version because I was transfering home movies from VHS to DVD and this was the only software I found that allows me to create menus, scene selections and all the other stuff. DVD Lab also allowed me to pull off the audio file from the DVD video and edit the audio to make it sound better.