dvd’s to AVI

[Christopher Judge]

I had the same exact question. I do not have the ability to buy an analog to digital video converter and a dvd player, but most of my footage will be on DVD and I need DV quality. Any ideas?

[Vince Becquiot]

Well, there is no shortage of those outhere.

Here are a couple of them. I think these are freeware.

https://www.dvduk.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/avinet.html

https://www.autogk.me.uk/

Vince

[Christopher Judge]

Thank you very much.

[Jonathan Shohet]

My favorite is VirtualDub, an excellent free tool.

VirtualDubMod is a version that allows you to import mpeg and vob files.

Much more versatile and flexible solution than regular converters.
You can encode to uncompressed avi’s, and almost any codec installed on your machine, not just divx\xvid.

https://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

If you need to decode an AC3 audio stream you also need:

https://www.free-codecs.com/download/AC-3_ACM_Decompressor.htm

(also free!)

[Bob Tompkins]

I tried a couple of the programs mentioned and they are sort of klunky and slow. I am willing to pay for a program as good as DVD x DV if anyone knows of one. I am legitimately taking archived DVD footage and bringing it back into Premiere so I am not looking for a program designed to “steal” commercial movies to use for another purpose.

[Mike Cohen]

if you have Premiere 2.0 you can copy the VOB to your hard drive, change the extension to MPG, import into Premiere, and export as AVI.

[Bob Tompkins]

I just recently figuerd out(through experimentation, because who reads the directions) that Elements does exactly what I want it to do through “Get Media From”. It reads the DVD, gives me a menu of what can be imported, allows me to select files and then imports the file directly into my program. It is a miracle!

[Mike Gondek]

I tried to rename the vob to g and this worked great for the video, but what about the audio portion????