BP4_Next Video Converter
Isn’t life funny when practice is asked to meet a real world problem? ETC's BP4 was a timely assignment. Let me set the scene: I arrive at work and almost immediately my supervisor says there is a problem. As she is explaining, she hands me an envelope with three DVDs enclosed. “We have tried to upload these training videos to YouTube but the DVDs are not in a format that can be used.” What a challenge, but I was up for the task.
Next Video Converter is a free source DVD converter. The application is able to read and convert multiple video and audio formats to .mp3, .mp4, mpeg, .mov, .qt, PSP, iPod, iPad and similar popular formats. The application was a free download and installation. Once the application was installed, I inserted the DVD and was able to view the contents using
determine what was actually on the disk. This was helpful because no identifying information was provided nor any of the disks labeled (see above screenshot). Next Video Converter provided several options: to copy, to rip, upload to YouTube or post to a URL. I selected “Rip DVD” to create a copy of each chapter on the DVD. Due to the length of each video, 6 hours of video total, it took approximately 10 hours to rip the 3 DVDs. This was partly due to technology conflict as my PC crashed to the blue screen no less than 8 times while processing the DVDs. 
My PC struggled through the DVD ripping process. However, I ended up with 6, 1 hour, usable .mp4 videos that were uploaded to YouTube on the office training channel. Check out the link at http://www.youtube.com/user/GPDSC1
Disclaimer: I did not shoot, produce or edit any of these videos. I ripped the DVD, uploaded the videos and added titles to YouTube.
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