How do I capture video from a dvd?

[husker3in4]

I have a home video (VHS) that I had a friend convert to DVD awhile back. Now I have my own DVD burner, and wanted to somehow edit the video off the DVD and burn it again. I figure it would be faster to get the video off the DVD and edit that instead of going through and capturing it onto my hard drive from VHS.

Can anyone help me with this? I have Pinnacle Studio 7 to edit it once I can get it off the DVD.

Thanks in advance!

[geek rock]

remember, if you rip the DVD in order to edit it, you'll have to re-encode it, which means another drop in quality. just the same as you'd get re-encoding an mp3 to mp3.

if it were me, i'd capture the tape again.

[Richard_G]

Rip the DVD to your hard drive, convert it to avi (use one of the DVD to AVI guides on the left under Convert), edit it and you'll then need to re-encode and author. You'll lose some quality, but if you want to edit it, that's the price you've got to pay.

If you just wanted to do a straight copy, just put the disk in your DVDROM drive and hit disk copy on whatever you use for burning.

[bugster]

If all you want to do is simple cuts (no transitions or fades or anything like that) you could use TmpGenc DVD author. Simply rip the DVD to your hard drive, import the VOBS into TmpGenc DVDA and specify the start and end points for each section.

If you want anything more complicated than that, go with Richard_G's suggestion (or even waht geek rock said, re-capture). To obtain as much quality as possible, make the avi (from either source) using a lossless or low loss codec such as huffyuv or Mjpeg.

[Evander]

If you have a home made DVD then there is no need to 'rip' with a program like DVDdecrypter b/c it's unprotected right? So you can just copy/paste the vobs to the hd, or maybe TMPEG dvd author can open the files directly right?