Capturing from a finished DVD

[tepeco]

I recorded a dance at a childrens dance recital. I recorded straight to DVD. Now, I want to edit the recording and don't know how to capture to my editing program (Adobe Premiere Pro). How do I do this? Or is there another way to edit this show?

[lordsmurf]

Do this:
http://digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/edit/dvdrecorder/recorderedit.htm

That should give you a good head start. Premiere Pro will import MPEG-2 just fine.

[tepeco]

Thank you, Lordsmurf, I gave that a try. I already had the program and used it but it only gave me a VOB again. I already had that from using DVD Shrink previously to make several copies. I tried the Womble software and it's impressive, however, I got an idea to check my WINAVI program and sure enough, it has a VOB to AVI feature. It worked, I got my edit into Premiere and the job is done.

Thanks for kickstarting my brain.

-tepeco

[lordsmurf]

A VOB, in this instance*, is nothing more than an MPEG. Just rename the file from FILENAME.VOB to FILENAME.MPG.

WinAVI is awful quality. You'd do best to do what I said. If you want to create an AVI for editing, open the MPEG in VirtualDub Mod and then save to uncompressed AVI.


* This ONLY applies to certain situations, usually DVD recorders and DVD cameras, not DVD releases or homemade DVD authors.