DVD to Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut

[richard041187]

I guess my subject says it all. I'm desperately trying to get my DVD's onto Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Express or Pro.

I am relatively proficient with various ripping and conversion programs, and what I don't know, I'll try to figure out.

What I really need is just a checklist of steps to take to achieve my objective.

Please, please, please. I've searched all I can search.

[reboot]

What's the objective? Reauthor? Edit? Backup?

[richard041187]

My objective is to edit the movie (language, nudity, violence, etc...) using one of those two programs, APPro or AFCut, to create a new, family friendly movie that I can then re-author through Encore DVD or iDVD.

I have looked at VirtualDub and a couple of other editing programs, but I am REALLY hopeful that I can find a way to avoid those, and achieve high quality files that I can import into one of the professional editing programs I have mentioned.

I have used DVDDecryper and AutoGnkot to get great guality AVI's, but as you probably know, I can't import those.

What are my options

[reboot]

You could encode your avi's to mpg, then import.
You could try something like Vidomi, rempeg, or tmpgenc to transcode the .vob's to mpeg.
Won't Premiere accept frameserved video?
You could framserve avi from virtualdub...
I know there's gotta be another way to get mpeg from .vob...
Last question, how come YOUR version of Premiere won't accept .avi as input?

[troyvcd1]

The only way to do this is with virtualdub-mpeg. Use vdmpg to cut and edit the vob then export the avi. This avi file will not be viewable in windows mediaplayer. Your have to import this avi file into premiere and then export the file. This resulting avi will be viewable with mediaplayer.

[richard041187]

OK, I know I'll sound like an idiot, but what's frameserving and how do I do it?

And about not being able to import AVI into Pro, I just get a non-moving status bar. The window tells me it's importing, but never does.

Help! I'm going crazy

[reboot]

Look in the guides for frameserving. There's quite a few on how to do it, especially with virtualdub.
What it really means, is that you open a file in vdub, and instead of saving it again, you send it to your encoder, and do all the work there. Vdub just "transmits" the video, it doesn't change it in any way.
I would be emailing Adobe support, if my $500 application didn't accept my avi as input.

[lordsmurf]

Premiere does not accept all "AVI" codecs.

[briansmccabe]

I was under the impression that Adobe Premiere Pro accepted whatever codecs were on the machine to begin with, but perhaps not.

Anyway, here's what I would do:

Rip the VOBs using whatever ripper you want (sounds like you have this aspect covered).

Use DVD2AVI to convert the VOB files to separate aud / vid streams (the vid stream will be broken into segments of 2GB). You will want to verify that the codec you use to export from DVD2AVI is a codec that APPro will accept as an imported file.

Import all outputted files, aud and vid, into APPro and line them up on the timeline accordingly to reconstruct the movie.

At this point, you should be ready to edit as you see fit. The video timeline theoretically could get quite "messy" though, in that your video timeline will consist of 15-20 2GB segments. Once you start cutting, rearranging shots, etc, the quantity of clips on the vid timeline will go even higher. it's certainly doable, but it will require a very keen eye to detail.

Anyway, that's how I'd do it. There's probably a better way out there, but the above method works. I just did it to create one DivX file out of the two discs that make up The Godfather Part 2 (AutoGK kept misreading disc one's VOBs so I had to go this long route).