In just a few weeks, we’ve become big fans of the new DVD ripping product from Deskshare – a company that has published a number of affordable, general purpose video editing products for quite a few years.
First announced in an article in the Coach’s Advisor Journal in early July, Rip DVD Plus really grew on us quickly. This is not to take anything away from the other products we have recommended in recent years – we just really like a lot about this new product. As pointed out recently on the CompuSports web site, Rip DVD seems easier to learn, faster and more flexible than other products we have worked with.
Most importantly, its ability to create a single .avi or WMV (Windows Media) in varying combinations of file size and video quality make it ideal for football coaches who increasingly exchange video on DVDs or receive just-played game video on a DVD shortly after the contest.
Rip DVD Plus is not to be mistaken with most of the other DVD ripper products that are really more like file converters than DVD converters. These less-capable, file-based products can be “hit or miss” for coaches in particular, since the video for a football or basketball game is normally split between two or more “vob” files (vob files are the MPEG 2 based file fragments on a Video DVD ).
Rip DVD Plus joins DVD Copy 6 Plus as a supported DVD “ripping” products for use with Easy-Scout Professional and Easy-Cut.
For Easy-Cut users, multi-purpose Digital Media Converters such as the DIVX Converter – included in the Divx Pro for Windows bundle (with MPEG 2 plug in option) – available from www.divx.com , and Digital Media Converter Pro, also from Deskshare are excellent alternatives and also CompuSports – supported products.
Coaches can be confident when choosing a supported capture or conversion product, since we have invested our time and money to test, purchase and learn how to use them with our video editing software products on both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
