The challenge of recording from a DVD

[worthamtx]

Gale or some other kind and patient soul allow me to explain my situation.
I am the program facilitator for a program at my church. It is structured
into sessions and simply stated I would like to share the speakers narration from DVD
with my class via e-mail several days before class meeting.
It is probably very simple but I just cannot wrap my 79 year old brain around it.
1. I insert the DVD and am presented with session menu and I access that and
speaker begins to talk.
2. I can minimize DVD, access audacity begin recording and miss opening comments.
3. Or I can begin by accessing audacity begin recording, ten access DVD and have that
dead time which I have not a clue how to erase.
Solution or options greatly appreciated.
Note: On the DVD the initial screen comes up and one must choose session. After choosing
speaker narration begins and I see no way to pause the narration to begin audacity.
Thank for listening to to an old mans tale woe

[kozikowski]

Probably the easiest thing would be to get rid of the silence gap at the beginning with the Zoom tools.

Finish recording and press Stop. Control-F should give you the Full show on the timeline with the beginning on the left and the end on the right.

Click anywhere on the timeline and the SpaceBar should start playing from that point. SpaceBar to stop playing.

Drag-Select a small bit from the left and press Control-E. That's Zoom into the sElection. Can you see the tiny flat-line segment on the extreme left? That's the silence. If it's really tiny, drag-select another small segment on the left and zoom in again.

If you go too far, Control-3 will zoom out a little bit (I live in these three Zoom tools).

When the flat-line silence portion covers most of your screen, drag select it and press Delete. You might want to leave a little bit of the silence at the beginning or the show will not sound natural.

Control-F to zoom out full and Export the cut show.

The natural tendency is to Export the new show with the same name as the DVD capture. That's a bad idea because you can't make a mistake without seriously damaging the performance. Choose a new file name.

Koz

[worthamtx]

Koz:
I certainly thank you for that expedient and detailed reply. I will now proceed to give it a shot
Allen

[steve]

It is structured into sessions and simply stated I would like to share the speakers narration from DVD with my class via e-mail several days before class meeting.

I presume this is a "home made" DVD?
Who made it? What was it "filmed" with?
There may be an easier and better quality way to get the voice track than by recording it from the DVD.