Editing with source material from a DVD

[Tom Daigon]

Use Handbrake to convert them to prores or DNxHD or similar clean codec.Use that media to edit with.

https://handbrake.fr/

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
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[Ben Oliver]

Where in Handbrake can I change the codec to ProRes?

[Tom Daigon]

My mistake. I was think of MPEG Streamclip.

I believe I heard that if the dvd is not copy protected you can just drag to VOB files to your media drive and PrP will play them back. Lets see if this can be verified by folks that use it often.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPrG3WUyz8
(Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Paul Neumann]

Copy the .vob files and change the extension to .mpg. That usually works. You can edit with them or run them thru AME to make prores/dnxhd copies of them.

[Gabriel Sanchez]

Since CS5 you can use the .vob files directly in PPro, no need to change the extension to .mpg. This was made for Premiere to recognize mpeg2 files with AC3 sound format.

First copy them to your hard disk, don´t import from the DVD.
If the dvd is copy protected, then you need to unprotect it using DVDFab, for example, and ripping them to your hard disk in the same format and dvd structure than the original. Then you can put the vob files in premiere with no problem.

In XP 32 bit there was a nice little program which unprotected every dvd inserted in the player, with no need to rip the hole dvd, you only copy and paste desired vob files in the hard disk: it is called DVD43. Unfortunately there´s no standalone 64 bit version, only as a plugin for a program called “1clicktoDVD”. That´s one of the reasons why i keep a dual boot in my pc with Windows XP installed in one individual hard disk, as last time i instaled DVDFav it made a mess in my W7 sistem codecs.

Regards