need to convert vob without any loss of quality

[digisam]

Hi

I created a movie in Final Cut Pro on a mac and have burned it onto DVD with my superdrive, it looks great and everything works.

Un fourtunatly there is a mistake in my edit where one of the source files was missing thus apears a "media clip offline screen"

I have the missing file, but I lost most of the files in a HD crash.

I still have to original DVD and the missing file. What i want to do is rip to dvd (i can do this with DVDbakup and other fine) and then convert it into an editiable format without any loss, and then convert it back to a VOB.

I had done this, and i thought i was sucessful. I ripped and converted the dvd, edited and burned it back to dvd (using iDVD to create the vob file)

But the quality is really poor, especialy when there is movement, it goes very blocky and jerky.

There are lot of turoials to rip and compress vob files into DIVx (for whatever uses) but i cant work out how to get a perfect copy.

Any ideas of suggestions.

Sam

[mats.hogberg]

You can convert to uncompressed AVI (taking an obscene amount of disk space) (no loss here) and edit, but no matter what, you have to reencode to mpeg2, and here you will lose some quality.

/Mats

[digisam]

is this on mac or pc?

which software would you recomend, i have ffmpegx and the other usual ones

the film is only 12 minutes long so disc space isnt too much of a problem (not that i would be anyway)

[mats.hogberg]

This is on any system, but I only have PC experience, so if you're on Mac (which I suppose you are, mentioning ffmpegx), maybe someone who knows about that platform might help you with the specifics.

/Mats