ImToo DVD Ripper

[Mi3]

I take my .vob file and load it into VirtualDub Mpeg-2 and save it as .avi. The files is fairly large but it works for me in PPro 1.5.

VirtualDub-MPEG2
https://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/

[Chimin Lee]

I finally had some success – and found out some things:
– you must have DVD ripper PLATINUM version for the DVVIDEO codec to appear; and the codec are all included
– the latest version on their site was able to convert my DVD, 24fps, including each chapter as separte file . 4.0.40 worked; 4.0.37 crashed on about half the chapters.

Premiere seems to be very happy with the resulting file; it looks to be in sync, the timeline is 29.97 and no rendering required. So it’s faster than capturing a DVD to a DV tape or realtime import…because the conversion is faster than real time (at least on a 1.8Ghz P4).

I tried Canopus as well, but Premiere chocked on the file; stuttered and slower playback. I’m sure some settings could have been tweaked to fix this – but Procoder couldn’t separate the DVD chapters, so I didn’t bother testing more.