HELP!!! I've ripped DVD -> AVI, but Premier don't like it

[BMORIN]

I tried the method described by BALDRICK and that got what I wanted except for one big probelm - the (fake) .avi that it outputs plays low video quality. The .vob's play nicely in a player, but after I go through the process described by him the video plays lower quality (especially visible duing quick movements). I don't know why this is as his process never encodes the video. Any explanation and/or what to do?

[Baldrick]

You should just check so it plays...ignore the playback..it will be slow. Import it in premiere.

[BMORIN]

Baldrick, I did do that and tried to export as uncompressed .avi and the file it made was low quality just like it was before I pulled it into premiere.

The only way I've been able to accomplish what I want to do is by by-passsing Premiere altogether. Here's what I did:
1) Ripped DVD contents to hard drive using Rejig
2) Used Mpeg Video Wizard to edit contents
3) Used TMPGenc DVD Author to make the new DVD

Is that a good process? I'm just bummed that now I have to buy a new video editting program and not be able to use Premiere for this kind of project.

[dipstick]

Besides the Frameserving method by Baldrick (wich I'm sure would work, but I haven't tried it yet), You've got a few other choices.

The quick and dirty way would be to load the Vob in Vrtualdub mod and save as dv-avi using the free Panasonic dv codec. You will have no problems editing it in Premiere.

The better solution (if you have HDD space), is to load vob into Virtualdub mod and save to Huffyuv avi. The quality will be the best you can get. Premiere can edit the Huffyuv, though it will be a little slower.