importing off DVD and editing

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importing off DVD and editing

Posted by Ruby Gold on July 28, 2007 at 6:50 am

I normally edit my own captured footage from my DVX100b, but I’ve been given several DVDs to take pieces of footage/audio from to edit together and export into new files to make a new DVD from. In the PPro 1.5 documentation, it says that mpegs are acceptable file formats, but when I try to import them from the disk, I get a message saying they’re unacceptable file formats. Any suggestions on the best way to get them off the disk and into editable form?

Thanks!

Warren Morningstar replied 18 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 10 Replies
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Mike Velte
July 28, 2007 at 10:26 am

Editing files from a DVD is possible, but fraught with frustrations…you just had the first one. Try changing the file extension to .mpg.
Best bet is to capture the footage as DV by playing the DVD in a stand alone player to/thru your DV camcorder into Premiere.
Steven L. gotz
July 28, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Or, use a DVD ripper.

Premiere Pro 2.0 is a lot friendlier to MPEG video than 1.5 was.

(Keep in mind that free trials don’t handle MPEG at all.)

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com
Ruby Gold
July 29, 2007 at 1:30 am

Thanks Mike–great suggestions. I tried to change the extension, but it’s actually in the Video_TS folder in some kind of file format that is not yet an mpg, so there was no ability to change the extension to change. I’ll try your taking it from a standalone suggestion.
Thanks again-
Ruby
Matt Sonberg
July 30, 2007 at 5:40 am

I actually just ran into this same roadblock. I spent about 2 hours trying every which way and finally found success using this DVD ripper: AoA DVD Ripper (www.dvdkit.net/dvd_ripper.htm)

I got the pro version and it worked perfectly. It has lots of different settings in there for how you’d like to output your ripped file.

Hope this helps!
Ruby Gold
July 30, 2007 at 7:04 pm

That’s very cool to know about–thanks to all for the suggestions.

I went ahead and just recorded from the standalone DVD player to mini-dv tape and then captured from that to my computer to edit from. I’m hoping that the end result doesn’t look too stepped on, but it seemed the most expedient thing to do for right now. I’ll check out the ripper later.

thanks again!
Steven L. gotz
July 30, 2007 at 10:44 pm

My guess is that your method already makes the most sense.

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com
Ruby Gold
July 30, 2007 at 11:03 pm

Cool. I hope so. I’m just concerned, given that I’m going from recording a compressed format back to tape, then re-exporting/compressing… I’m hoping the resulting video/audio quality isn’t too bad… Any thoughts on that?
Mike Velte
July 31, 2007 at 10:59 am

What ever route you take there will be several steps of degradation in the final output. IMHO, the DV capture route is the best.
Warren
August 3, 2007 at 2:10 pm

A warning.
I downloaded a trial of AOA DVDripper and after several days, my anti-virus program detected “malicious code” Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.cqk in the DVDripper executable.

Warren Morningstar
Warren Morningstar
August 3, 2007 at 2:15 pm

A warning.
I downloaded a trial of AOA DVDripper and after several days, my security program detected malicious code (Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.cqk) in the executable. For me, that was enough to zap the program off my computer.

Warren

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