save dvd to pc?

[Maverick]

Hi Robb,

 

I've recently made a video of my trip to Florida this year and burnt it to DVD, unfortunately I had what can be only described as a computer melt down and the only option was to format my hard drive. I've therefore now lost my 'edit' clips for Pinnacle Studio but I was hoping to redo some of the video without having to capture all 14 tapes again . Here's my problem:

 

1. How do you grab the video from the DVD to PC without losing any picture quality?

 

2. Is it then possible to import the video file into an editor again? if so what file format would I need to save it in?

 

3. if I cant re-edit it, can I just save a section of it to dvd?

 

I'm hoping you'll be able to help as you seem to have plenty of experience with people sending you their coaster vids on different formats for the competition.

 

cheers

Rich

[robbalvey]

Hmm...I would suggest using "DVDShrink" it's a free DVD ripper that seems to be pretty good. It will extract your DVD into .vob files. I have never had the need to convert .vob files to .avi's or anything but I'm SURE there's got to be a program out there that will do it.

 

I'd start by having a look at www.dvdrhelp.com as they seem to have answers for everything!

 

--Robb

[WillMontu]

I've found that DVD Decrypter works for "ripping" DVD's, even copyrighted ones (only for personal backup, of course!). It takes the file on the DVD and makes them into MPG files, which are what they are stored as on the DVD.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&newwindow=1&q=dvd+decrypter

[danandjackie]

Cant you just use an editor like video studio 9 and capture your dvd..., then all your video is available as library files on you hd

[Maverick]

Robb - Thanks for the help i've been able to use DVDShrink to rip the video track I wanted, as you say it's in a .vob file so if nothing else I can reburn it onto a dvd as a separate vid. I have tried a couple of vob-avi converters but so far it's not looking good, quality isn't so great and the sound is lost. I'll keep trying, I may have some settings wrong.

 

Will - thanks for the info but i've tried DVD Decrypter and it seems to rip whole sections of the dvd not just single chapters, so dvdshrink seems to work better for me.

 

DanandJackie - I use Sudio9 already but as far as i'm aware you cannot capture a file from a dvd, only a DV device. If i'm wrong and you know of a way to do this please let me know as it would be the perfect solution.

 

It's looking like the best way to re-edit the vid is to capture all the tapes again and start from scratch, not really what i want to do, but will end up with the best result

 

Thanks again for your help

 

cheers

Rich