# DVD \>\> YouTube help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 15, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027 "2010-01-15T02:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/1 "2010-01-15T02:00:29Z")
I have a DVD of my wedding and I wanted to put a couple of clips from it on YouTube for my friends/family… but I am not sure how to extract clips from a DVD. Please note I’m not asking how to pirate movies or anything, I just want to put things like the juggling portion of our wedding ceremony, our first dance, etc onto YouTube. So does anyone know how to do it? I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 if that helps… ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/2 "2010-01-15T02:05:07Z")
You need a DVD ripper to rip the video to AVI or MPEG formats. Google “freeware DVD ripper” and you should find what you need. Once it is ripped, you can edit it in Premiere, then get a youtube account and upload the end results. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/3 "2010-01-15T02:05:52Z")
You want to first to DVD to AVI. [Videohelp](http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/dvd-to-avi-divx-xvid) is a really great site for finding the right tools for jobs like this. Once you have that done, you will want to cut some clips from your AVI. You can use Windows Movie Maker (comes with Windows) or iMovie (comes with Mac OS) for that. Or possibly even the program you find to make the AVI. Then once you have your clip, upload to YouTube. ETA: Sorry I didn’t realize you said you had Premiere. Ignore the stuff above about the WMM and iMovie. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/4 "2010-01-15T04:34:26Z")
As I always say: [Handbrake](http://handbrake.fr/). ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/5 "2010-01-15T16:59:48Z")
Cool, I downloaded Handbrake and I’m trying it out now! I have quite a few videos on YouTube but they’re all stuff I recorded on my camera. This will be my first try from a DVD. I’ll post the results if I’m successful! Thanks guys! ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-youtube-help/525027/6 "2010-01-15T20:18:40Z")
AVI is a container file not a format. Think of it this way: You’re in 1st century Judea and you’re at a wedding party when some dude named Jesus stands up and says: “Behold! I turned this water into jug!” Imagine that? People would just be all confused, scratching their heads, wondering who this joker is and if they should turn him in to the Romans for crucification. A DVD contains a video mpeg-2 stream along with an audio stream in a variety of possible formats (mp2, AC-3, uncompressed PCM, etc) packaged into a series of .vob files. The best thing to do then would be to use the original mpeg streams instead of first re-encoding to some other format (probably some mpeg-4 format in an avi container as suggested above), edit, then re-encode yet again for output. You can do this by simply copying the .vob files to your hard drive and renaming them to .mpeg. Most editing and player software won’t have a problem with this, but the headers aren’t kosher, so some software will have issues. You can use [http://www.womble.com/products/vcr.html](http://www.womble.com/products/vcr.html) to save the stream without re-encoding in case Adobe premier bitches.