What is the best way for editing DVD-Video?

[Sean_ve99]

Hello

I have a problem, can anybody help me?
I have a DVD-Video and I want to edit it in editing application (Edius) and then again I want to create new DVD-Video from it with new menu and subtitle.
Since my capture card has been damaged and right now I just have IEEE 1394, I think I can do it in two ways;

1- capture DVD-Video by IEEE 1394 as an AVI file and edit it in Edius and then export final video as a MPEG2 file and in the next stage take them to DVD authoring application and create DVD-Video with new menu and subtitle.

2- Importing Vob file directly to Edius(it support vob files) and edit it, then export final video as a MPEG2 file and then send them to DVD authoring application for creating new DVD-Video.

In your opinion which way is better? What would you do if you were me?
Quality and resolution are most important factor for me, I don’t want to lose any quality during these conversions.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

sean

[Baldrick]

Quality and resolution are most important factor for me, I don’t want to lose any quality during these conversions.

You will lose a bit quality if you use edius because it reconverts the entire video clip. Some other editors like mpeg video wizard don't reconvert the entire clip but just the transitions, image resizing, image cropping and such that requires reconverting.

[Sean_ve99]

Thanks for your reply, but someone professional editor told me to capture them as AVI because MPEG file isn't good source for editing.
Are you going to tell me to choose second way?

[lordsmurf]

but someone professional editor told me to capture them as AVI

This guy is only giving you half the details. His advice only applies in certain situations.

What kind of editing are you wanting to do, exactly?

[Sean_ve99]

I want to remove and add some part of video and change entire audio of video, I might use some filter like color correction (not so much) and after that I want to export it to Adobe Encore DVD for authoring.

[Sean_ve99]

Has anyone experienced it?

[navi310]

1- capture DVD-Video by IEEE 1394 as an AVI file

This way seems Ok but do you have DVD-Video player with IEEE 1394 output???
If not, second option probably will give you better quality.

[Bjs]

Hello

I have a problem, can anybody help me?
I have a DVD-Video and I want to edit it in editing application

What do you mean you have a dvd-video ? ... where ?

If you talking about one of those dvd recorders , then that interface only works as input , not output .
If it has a hard drive where it stores the recordings , there's only two methods you can use .

Play it back , and while it dose so , record it to pc using a video capture device ... this gose for units refered to as tivo's as they encrypt the stored data .

Or

Rip the hard drive out , carefully , and use a tool like pvrexplorer to extract the clips to pc ... which might send warrantee south bound and down the drain .