Ripping VOB files from DVD-R

[TimmyGUNZ]

Is it possible to rip some home videos from a DVD-R into Quicktime files so I can edit them in iMovie?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[londor]

Check Cinematize and/or DVDxDV.

[macuser25]

Toast 7 can easily do this... Toast 7 media browser can extract an individual title or chapter from a DVD and conver to DV for editing or some other QuickTime format for playback elsewhere or even convert to DivX.

Buy.com currently selling Toast for $49.

[maetel99]

I don't have Toast 7, but I sincerely doubt that it can rip from DVDs as well as the apps that londor suggested. Just look at all the problems folks in this forum have with deinterlacing interlaced video, converting variable frame rate encoding to fixed rate, converting between widescreen and full screen, PAL versus NTSC, etc.

Does Toast 7 handle all this stuff? If not, it isn't good for much beyond ripping chapters from iDVD discs. Then again, most iDVD discs are all a single chapter, so Toast would have to rip the entire thing even if you want just 30 seconds.

[Epicurus8a]

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[TimmyGUNZ]

I got it to work nicely with DVDxDV. Well worth the $25.

-Tim

[macuser25]

[quote="maetel99"]I don't have Toast 7, but I sincerely doubt that it can rip from DVDs as well as the apps that londor suggested. Just look at all the problems folks in this forum have with deinterlacing interlaced video, converting variable frame rate encoding to fixed rate, converting between widescreen and full screen, PAL versus NTSC, etc.

don't doubt what you can't possibly know until you try it.

[londor]

I don't have Toast 7, but I sincerely doubt that it can rip from DVDs as well as the apps that londor suggested. Just look at all the problems folks in this forum have with deinterlacing interlaced video, converting variable frame rate encoding to fixed rate, converting between widescreen and full screen, PAL versus NTSC, etc.

don't doubt what you can't possibly know until you try it.

I have Toast 7 and can confirm that maetel99 guesses are spot on and that is why I did not recommend Toast for that job.

[videopoo]

QT will open a VOB - from there you can export it to whatever editable format you want.

[willrob]

QT can't open vobs.

[videopoo]

QT can't open vobs

I do it all the time - not sure which version I have

[londor]

QT can't open vobs

I do it all the time - not sure which version I have

You need the Apple mpeg2 component to be able to open vobs with QT and you will have problems de-interlacing video since QT can not do it.

[willrob]

Sorry about the confusion. I had recently reinstalled Tiger (after Software Update's download of Quicktime 7.02 and Default Folder conspired to launching and crashing the Finder in an endless loop) and failed to reinstall the quicktime mpeg2 plug-in. Now I can open vobs and remember why I never bothered doing so.