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I have a promotional DVD from a client, and they want to put clips from it on their website.
I'm in a Windows environment, so I'm looking for a decent video editor program, free would be preferred. Then I guess I'd have some kind of flash-based player to embed in the website…
What do you recommend?
Check to see whether or not the DVD drive is locked by a region code.
Drive Region Info is a simple freeware and portable tool that lets you know if your DVD drive is locked to any particular 'region'.
If your drive is locked after five changes you can use LtnRPC, a Region Free Utility for Lite-ON manufactured drives (your Sony DW-Q58A drive was manufactured by LiteOn) to reset the count or make the drive 'region free' altogether.
Best Answer
FlowPlayer is self hosted flash player for websites. It supports direct content and streaming servers. Remember though, video requires a lot of bandwidth so make sure your servers/webhost can cope with that requirement.
If not, you might want to look at offsite hosting of the video content. YouTube is the obvious free one (and supports embedding the video on your site), but there are loads of others around if you Google for them.
For video editing, I'm a big fan of cinelerra, but it's Linux only. Windows movie maker does the basics if you just need something simple. Or there's virtual dub, but it only does clipping and doesn't do transitions or non-linear mixing last time I used it.
For processing the videos, ffmpeg and MEncoder (comes with MPlayer) both do all kinds of conversion,rescaling,encoding etc and will come in handy if you need to convert to specific formats or need to compress the clips a bit.