Editing ripped footage from DVD

[Flake Shaw iv]

You can hook up a DVD player to a Mojo with BNC male to RCA female adapters and crash record. You won’t get reliable timecode, but if that doesn’t matter…

You can also try MPEG Streamclip. Its a free VOB converter. Not super efficient, but does the trick.

[Anonymous]

MPEG Streamclip has worked pretty well for me.

As was said you can hook up the DVD player up to the Mojo. Depending on your equipment and how much you footage you need to capture, go through etc you might want to go to a dub house to get the DVD converted to a beta or dv which might make it easier to work with.

[Michael Brown]

I agree that the analog way is best, especially if you can go component, Y, Pb, Pr. Your experience may differ, but I’ve found ripping takes a long time, and often yields mediocre results.

Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association

[Omnidecay]

Thanks for the responses! I will give these a shot and see what I can come up with!

[Mark]

I mainly use Mc at home, but also have Avid liquid installed on the machine. Avid Liquid lets me import the VOB files directly onto an M2V timeline. I can then edit these files natively and drop burn back to DVD. Works very quickly (no rendering to get the VOB file to the timeline).

Mark

[Mark]

I mainly use Mc at home, but also have Avid liquid installed on the machine. Avid Liquid lets me import the VOB files directly onto an M2V timeline. I can then edit these files natively and drop burn back to DVD. Works very quickly (no rendering to get the VOB file to the timeline).

Mark

[Erik Pontius]

We often do this at the company I work for as we get event footage and other video on dvd from AV people we’ve hired, that we then need to edit down or include in other shows.
We use Canopus Procoder which handles VOB files and will properly handling Dolby Digital and other formats. We copy all the VOB files to a directory on the local hard drive, then feed Procoder the first VOB. From there we can loosely trim the beginning and end, telling Procoder to only encode the portion we’ve kept. We then encode it to a MOV using Avid or animation codecs or AVI using uncompressed or DV codec.
Works well for us.

Erik