DVD to Premiere - best way, no loss?

[Aucword]

I want to take a 30-second scene from a DVD, splice it into a home movie (solely personal, non-commercial) using Adobe Premiere 6.5, and record to DVD. I've used Ulead Movie Factory to isolate the DVD chapter, then I isolate the scene using the "duplicate clip" command, in Premiere. It looks fine in the source window on the left, but it looks jumpy in the timeline window on the right (about every 8 frames, it keeps the same frame twice, then skips to a subsequent frame). It also looks jumpy when recorded to DVD via the MPEG encoder and then Ulead.
What is the best way to get a short scene from a DVD into Adobe Premiere 6.5, so that I can edit it and use it, with no loss of quality?

[dougy69]

use avisnyth to open up the vob file in virtualdub. chose the part
you want then save it as an avi file. import the avi into premiere timeline.
use the guides on this sit and look into scripts for open vobfiles.

or use dvdavi to choose the part of the dvd you want and then save it as an avi

[mtgoat]

I have been using DVD2AVI and Link2 with excellent results.
Link2 can be found at:

http://www.videotools.net/index.php?rub=guides&htm=intro2link2.htm

The advantage to using Link2 is that you don't have to make an intermediate .avi file (it makes a "fake" .avi file), thereby saving disc space. The disadvantages are that it costs $15 and seems to work only with an older version of avisynth.

[dcsos]

If its a commercial DVD, you must first RIP the DVD to your hard drive (neither of the methods described above will work dirctly from the DVD DISC)

If its the first VOB, laced with AC3 audio, PREMIER will input this VOB directly the audio may or may not read depending on the CODEC and order of installation of various programs on your system..

To make sure ..use one of the methods above if the VOB will not import directly (the latter VOB's will not contain audio as after the first file in th chain, premiere cannot imprort the sound..

I use VIDOMI to do my conversion this makes an AVI that is an MPEG-4 file.. I just make sure its at a higher bit rate than the original clip and
that the audio is PCM 48,000KHZ during th Ac3 conversion..
The s resultant AVI is always PREMIER COMPLIANT

Premiere 7.0 (AKA PREMIERE PRO) is capable of importing VOB's directly if they are renamed MPG (BUT IT ONLY WORKS ON WINDOWS XP with 2.4 gig processor or better and is very buggy right now)