Mrs BigJohn just got a load of our old home videos transferred onto DVD. All kids growing up, holidays, that sort of thing.
I’d like to be able to pick out some of the better bits, chop out a lot of the boring stuff (of which there’s quite a bit, even though I thought I was being quite a harsh editor when I copied them down from Mini DV to VHS years ago), and maybe be able to email snippets to people. Not “Have You Been Framed”, sadly. There’s nothing remotely funny.
The DVDs are all DVD-R, Doing an explore on the PC says their format is UDF.
What’s the best utility to get them into an editable format, and to do the kind of editing I’m after. And having done that, what’s the best format to store the resulting files in? Cloud, external HD, More DVDs?
Prefer something free, but could be persuaded to buy a utility. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite laptop. 2GHz Core i3 processor and 8GB memory. 769GB free space on my hard drive.