Ripping lossless file of DVD for editting in Premiere?

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I've got some DVDs that I would like to edit into short compilations in Adobe Premiere. It's just the films themselves that I need so I'd preferrably like to remove the menus and special features. Retaining the original quality is imperative, so how do I go about ripping them in a lossless format that I can edit in Premiere? I believe this is mpeg2 but I'm not certain. I've played around with some, trying to adapt tutorials to my desire but haven't had any success. I have found however, that the menus and special features are in seperate parts to the films which should make things easier.

What software is required to extract the lossless format and how do I go about doing it?

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[ZippyP.]

First you need to rip the DVD's - I'd use DVDShrink in re-author mode which allows you to do basic editting.

Then you probably need to convert the resulting VOB so that Premiere will acept them, try VOB2MPEG.

[guns1inger]

Which version of Premiere ? I believe Premiere Pro 2 can edit mpeg2 natively - earlier versions may require the mainconcept mpeg2 editing plugin. If you have PP2 then you can simply demux using rejig or DVD decrypter (straight from the original discs), then start working.

If you have an earlier version of Premiere, you can use VOBMerge to get one big VOB, then use virtualdubmpeg2 or virtualdubmod to read the contents and output to a lossless format such as lagarith or huffyuv.

If you need to strip them down first, the simplest method is DVD Shrink in reauthor mode, and set the compression to No Compression so no transcoding takes place. From there you can demux and convert.

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Thanks for the quick responses, I'm trying Vob2Mpeg on the Vob files I've extracted with DVDShrink. I'm using Premiere 2.0.

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It worked a treat, thanks guys. Only thing I've noticed is that when playing the .mpg in VLC Player it gets the time wrong - WMP has no such problem. Is this an issue with the software or did something go wrong while converting it? The file still plays in it's entirety in both media players.

[greymalkin]

what kind of editing are you doing? If you simply need to cut sections out then you could use a much simpler editor that won't force you to re-encode.

[masterpug]

use dvd decryptor to rip dvd 'by chapter"...cool feature! end up with a vob or mpg or demuxed
elementary audio/video streams, mpa/mpv. then load any of those into womble mpeg video wizard or videoredo or tsunami/tmpgenc editors for frame accurate cutting/splicing/joining without re-encoding anything except the few frames around the GOP/cuts for super fast complete times!
use womble if you want to add transitions, fades, effects, titles, adjust audio and/or add audio tracks or even overlay audio tracks that fade in/out where you want over existing mpg audio,etc