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[arholmes]

hi,
seeking advice on best way to get absolutely best quality copy from DVD into something I can edit in Final Cut Pro or similar

I need to use small video clips for a portfolio reel. only taking a scene at a time. only about 6 or 7 minutes max ends up on reel. quality way more important than the time it takes or file size.

totaly newbie, experimentation has improved quality but they're still not good enough to use. (what I do is visual so the quality loss ends up looking like I did a worse job).
source quality is varied - but can i eventually get material as good as whatever the source is?

have been using 0SEx 0.0101b
the was using media Pipe, now using DiVA 1.0b5.dmg
to JPeg Motion A.

any help would be SO MUCH appreciated Thanks

[ZeroSix]

sounds about right... using those settings in Diva. You could also use Mencoder to convert the .vob files to .avi that FCP can use... For the absolute highest quality, you can use rawrgb

Use 0Sex to extract the .vob file.

in your terminal, type this:

mencoder -oac pcm -ovc rawrgb /path/to/dvdfile.vob -o /path/to/output.avi

Granted this file size will be HUGE, it should be non-lossy and editable in FCP.

[MacFan]

There are several apps ypou could use, for me there are only 2 apps that do a deasent job and they are called EXTRACTOR and CINEMATIZE they split .VOB's into streams AC3 and M2V which can be used in FCP and DVDSP you can find these apps www.miraizon.com and http://denisx.dyndns.org/extractor/downloads/