Question: Getting video from DVD into PC to edit (?)

[Yeti762]

Figured this might be a good place to ask this....

 

Has anyone experimented with taking video files off of a DVD and into a PC to edit them.? My am using Pinnacle Studio and it uses AVI/MPGfiles. I am working on a project and the material is being given to me on a DVD (as a burn from the master tapes).

 

I do have DVD Shrink and which can create the VideoTS and AudioTS folders and the files have .BUP, .VOB, and .IFO.

 

I've been doing a lot of Googling, and am confused by all the stuff I'm finding.

 

Although, I did read somewhere that a VOB is a glorified MPG and that you could just change the file extension! I tried this on a test file, and it DID work (just backspace and change .VOB to .AVI) but I'm sure this is not the "right" way to do it.

 

I know I did this once before, but I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, or if I just changed the file extension. (I wanted a clip off a movie and was able save just a little clip)

 

Can anybody help?

[Wes]

This is the best program for what you need.

http://www.squared5.com/

 

Once you rip the file off the DVD, you should be able to open the VOB through MPEG Streamclip and then convert it to whatever format.

[Yeti762]

Thanks for the help!

 

I will try this out tommorrow!

[Yeti762]

I got it to work! (after much messing around with Quicktime!)

 

Had to delete the official QT to install QT Alternative, then it kept telling me I needed to INSTALL QT alternative (???). I did some googling and found that the last version of QTA to include the MPEG2 codec was 1.81. So I searched out the old version, and installed that.

 

I was able to use DVD Shrink to rip the DVD to my hard drive, then use the MPEG stream to edit it and convert it to AVI.

 

Whew!!! But it was worth it though!

 

Thank you again Wes for your help or I never would have found this program!!!!