Best way to extract DVD vob files to edit in FCP?

[badtz]

Is there a way to extract the DVD vob files in a way they can be edited in Final Cut Pro?

[the best method in which quality is not degraded]

any help would be great! Thanks!

[markatisu]

Use YadeX to extract VOB files (even encrypted ones) and then you can open them in Streamclip and either save as an mpeg, save as m2v and ac3/mpg2 or edit directly in streamclip, either way you will not lose any quality at all

[Frobozz]

Miraizon's Cinematize and MPEG Streamclip do this well because you can select the parts you want to extract.

[Wender]

Yes. MPEG Streamclip is one cool application. One question though: If a VOB consists of one video stream and one PCM audio stream - what do I choose for demuxing options. M2v and AIFF?? I want to preserve the uncompressed audio when I edit it...

Thanks.

[videopoo]

Open the VOB file with QT then export as a editable.mov file.

[Wender]

Open the VOB file with QT then export as a editable.mov file.

Are you sure this does not involve any transcoding???

PCM is AIFF with different tag/header/something at least from what I've read elsewhere. I THINK demuxing to m2v/AIFF is the way to go...

[videopoo]

Are you sure this does not involve any transcoding???

Sure it transcodes...but thats what MPEG Streamclip does as well. If you need the original MPEG streams then it needs a demux. But if you want something to edit then this is the way to go.

[videopoo]

oops..missed the part where the original poster says he doesn't want the quality degraded. But editing a muxed MPEG stream is rather hard to do with limited I frames and all?

[Wender]

MPEG Streamclip doesn't necessarily transcode. It can demux.

[videopoo]

MPEG Streamclip doesn't necessarily transcode. It can demux.

Sure but to get an editable format it will need to transcode that demuxed mpeg stream

[macuser25]

i know someone who is beta testing toast 7... i've heard it makes something like this really simple.

[TK5005]

I rip the vob with mactheripper. then demux with mactheripper. I trash the m2v file and transfer the AC3 to aiff using mAC3dec. Then I import the vob and aiff into FCP, sync the audio and export using whatever compression I want.

[Wender]

I rip the vob with mactheripper. then demux with mactheripper. I trash the m2v file and transfer the AC3 to aiff using mAC3dec. Then I import the vob and aiff into FCP, sync the audio and export using whatever compression I want.

If you do this and compare the audio quality before and after, it sounds a lot worse. Just listen to it. Music gets terrible this way. What I've begun doing now is just demux to AC3 and m2v, use those files in DVDSP4 directly (no transcoding and no changes) and just use the very limited cut and paste/transition features in DVDSP.

It gets a lot easier when recording to a standalone in LPCM format. Audio is much better (noticeably when you record a live show) and editable.