Batch Converting DVD Clips to AVI

[Visitor99]

I am using Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 to edit home movies taken on a Canon DC100 camcorder. The camcorder uses DVD-R/RW media. Using Premiere's built-in DVD reader to load the disk works poorly because individual clips are lost. Instead, the entire disk is imported as a small number of VOB files. Worse yet, the sound is out sync by as much as 15 frames by the end of the movie.

I need a tool (doesn't have to be free) that will batch convert an entire DVD into individual AVI files. Each clip in the original movie needs to be in its own AVI file. A one hour home movie might contain dozens of individual clips so manual conversion is not practical. Following conversion I will import the AVI files into Premiere.

Thanks, in advance, for any help you can offer.

[Baldrick]

Maybe try vob2mpg, if it's separate titles it will create several mpgs that might work better to import in premiere elements.

I don't know any dvd to avi tool that creates avis for all titles automatically.

[Visitor99]

Thanks.

I just installed VOB2MPG. For input I used a 15 minute home movie containing 14 clips (titles). The output was a single MPG file containing the entire movie.

Other ideas? Anyone?

[Visitor99]

After much searching, and testing, I found SmartRipper a tool that extracts individual DVD chapters into separate VOB files. Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 can load VOB files so this is an excellent solution to the problem.

During my research I also looked at DVD Decrypter which appears to be able to do this as well although I have not tried it.

[mats.hogberg]

I also looked at DVD Decrypter which appears to be able to do this as well

Oh yes it can - that'd have been my first choice.

/Mats

[Visitor99]

Eventually SmartRipper ran into a disk it couldn't handle, so I tried DVD Decrypter instead as recommended above. I agree with Mats, DVD Decrypter is the better choice.

[Visitor99]

I needed to rip a mini-dvd from my camcorder that contained several small clips. The length of the clips ranged from 1 to 2 minutes.

DVD Decrypter ripped them, but when viewing them in Adobe Premiere Elements 3, I noticed that almost all the clips were truncated. Longer clips from the same disk were Ok.

Can anyone explain this?