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    I admit I am a newbie at this stuff, because as all of you know there is a ton out there to know. I have been reading posts, reviews, and guides to learn how to convert video from my dvd to a file that I would be able to author, edit, and burn on to another dvd.

    Here is my situation, I have a lot of home videos (VHS) that I have put on DVD thru my JVC DVD recorder. I now want to edit those through my editing software (Vegas 6), clip out unwanted scenes, etc. and then author to a DVD. I, of course want the best quality for my videos and this is where my question comes in. How do I do it? I am at my wits end. I want to take the video from my JVC burned DVD and put it on the highest quality of output and have no problems with audio synchronizing with the video.

    I have tried a lot of softwares, starting with Auto GK, DVD decryptor, Cucusoft AVI to MPEG, Xilisoft Video converter, Xilisoft DVD Ripper, among others. Is it MPEG-2 that I should output to or AVI? Do I want to output to 720x480 (the size that the source is)? I have tried VOB2MPG as suggested by this site, but it only gave me thirty seconds of the entire DVD.

    I have been getting less than desireble results. Results such as rough pixalization, audio out of synch.

    Any suggestions out there? Like I have said earlier, I wish I could have a clear cut answer to get the best quality output from my home dvds. Any help would be deeply appreciated.

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    Rip the main movie from DVD with DVDDecrypterin IFO mode, and set it to not split the VOB.
    Do the VOB to MPG conversion with VOB2MPG. Should work.
    If not, demux audio and video out of the VOB with ReJig.
    Now it's ready to be reauthored.
    Editing in MPG is tricky - the mpg format isn't really intended for that kind of treatment. Simple cuts works fine using Womble mpeg VCR (without reencoding) but fades and stuff requires reencoding. Smart editors reencode just the affected areas, while simpler apps reencodes the whole lot, resulting in quality degrading.
    As always, there's a risc for audio sync problems when editing mpg (or ANY A/V file for that matter).

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    Vegas is OK, but not the best choice. Probably the best for extended editing from mpeg source is Premiere with the mainconcept mpeg editing plugin. However, mpeg shows the signs of reencoding much quicker than other, better suited formats, such as DV, so avoid encoding until the final step, and give it as much bitrate as possible.

    If quality is an important factor for you, then transfer the DV directly to the PC and edit from their. Keep the DVD Recorder for recording TV shows or tapes that don't need editing.
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    Thanks I'll try that. Another quick question. Is it better to convert to avi via a codec rather than directly to mpeg-2 from the dvd?
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    DVD is mpeg 2, so, as that "conversion" is lossless, if you can avoid the AVI stage much is won qualitywise.
    OTOH, AVI is better suited for editing, som it may be necessary to go via AVI anyway. But in that case, I'd settle for a lossless (or as little compressed as possible) AVI codec, like huffyuv or maybe DV.

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