how 2 rip camcorder dvd for editing in premiere pro witout any quality loss

[Amar]

hey guy's some buddy help me pllls..........
I m having SONY DCR-DVD 106.. handycam.. i hv completed my shooting thing nw.. i want to edit it's video..
nw when ever m trying to rip that to avi format the video is getting compressed or m losing the quality of the video
and after completing of editing that in premiere pro after exporting m losing it quality even more. plssssss urgent help required

thank you

[TreeTops]

You shouldn't have to rip. Didn't that camera come with software to transfer the vids from DVD to your computer for editing?

[Amar]

no i didn't got any software to transfer with camcorder. is there any alternate way to get good quality video.......

[TreeTops]

Got to be something in the manual about transferring your video to the computer. Get the manual here: http://www.sony.co.uk/product/sdh-dvd-handycam/dcr-dvd106e/tab/manual#/manual

[hech54]

If you have a DVD from the camcorder in your hand.....just copy the damn thing to your hard drive.

[Amar]

hey friend TreeTops thanks. n if i want that software which comes with camcorder is their any link out der? pl help me out.

[Amar]

hey dud hech54 if i copy that video from DVD to my hard disk it will get copy but m facing one problem i can't import that format video to premiere pro which is my editing software n if i try to convent it's format which is suitable/supporting to premiere pro at that time am losing my video quality... n if i edit that converted video n export it out from my editing software then it will get even more compressed n i think no one will b interested to watch that kind of videos. this got a very big headache for my dud pl help...

[hech54]

There is no "software" to get because the camera creates a DVD.
There is no "link out" or cable to buy because the camera creates a DVD.
DVD is MPEG2. If the $800 Premier Pro does not accept MPEG2, you wasted $800.
There is plenty of inexpensive or even FREE software that can edit MPEG2. You may not be able to cut
exactly where you want but even the FREE AviDemux can cut on Key Frames and output with no change in quality.....from the DVD that the camera created.

[2Bdecided]

If your software can't handle the VOBs, something that will rip the disc (or convert the VOBs copied to HDD) to MPEG-2 elemental streams or files should work. There's no quality loss - you're just re-encapsulating the video data, not re-encoding it.

I'm sure your software will handle MPEG-2 (!!!), but maybe not DVD VOBs.

Cheers,
David.

[Amar]

hey dud hech54 ur saying right that the camera creates DVD, but it will not create DVD format to MPEG-2 it will create DVD format to VOB n VOB is unsupported by for premiere pro.. now i want any software that can convert VOB into MPEG-2 format without any quality loss to the video...n i think u got me now what m finding for

[Amar]

David thanks for ur suppression i will try it and get back to u....

[Cornucopia]

The VOBs (on your DVD) contain MPEG2 video + AC3/PCM/MP2 audio, just like a regular MPEG2 file does. With VOB2MPG, you're just swapping one container for the other. Use that and save the result to your Harddrive. Import to PPro.

Don't let others worry you, Premiere Pro has supported direct MPEG2 import for a while now.
hech54 wasn't inaccurate at all, just quite blunt/frank. And yes, there are a number of other MPEG2-capable editors out there that don't cost what PPro costs. But if you already have it and like it...

Scott

[Amar]

Cornucopia sorry to ask u but can u tell me little in detail what u want me to do...i didn't got u completely

[manono]

Cornucopia sorry to ask u but can u tell me little in detail what u want me to do...i didn't got u completely

Load your VOBs into VOB2MPG. Convert to MPG. Use the result in Premiere Pro.

[Amar]

Cornucopia sorry to ask u but can u tell me little in detail what u want me to do...i didn't got u completely

Load your VOBs into VOB2MPG. Convert to MPG. Use the result in Premiere Pro.

by doing so m lossing the video quality friend

[Amar]

Cornucopia sorry to ask u but can u tell me little in detail what u want me to do...i didn't got u completely

Load your VOBs into VOB2MPG. Convert to MPG. Use the result in Premiere Pro.

by doing so m lossing the video quality friend

it's getting compressed n the frame is getting smaller in size

[Cornucopia]

1. Take the disc out of the camcorder
2. Put it in the DVD drive of the PC
3. Open/Run Vob2Mpg
4. Set the source as the DVD drive and the output as somewhere on your HD
5. Set method of extraction as IFO/Vobset
6. Choose your title(s) / chapter(s)
7. Start the extraction

Now you have MPG2 (ps) files on your PC harddrive, with M2v video and Ac3/lpcm/mp2 audio in them.

8. Open/Run Premiere Pro
9. Do a media import of the Mpeg2 files, into the main project window or a bin of your choice
10. Work with the media in the trimmer & timeline as you would any media material

Can't get much simpler than that!

Scott

[Cornucopia]

Cornucopia sorry to ask u but can u tell me little in detail what u want me to do...i didn't got u completely

Load your VOBs into VOB2MPG. Convert to MPG. Use the result in Premiere Pro.

by doing so m lossing the video quality friend

VOB2MPG does NOT change anything of the media itself, just the container that it resides in, so there is NO WAY for it to lose quality.

The place where it loses quality is in the rendering/exporting of your edited video in Premiere Pro. And, sorry to have to break this to you, you will ALWAYS lose quality when you edit & process lossy media (like MPEG2/VOB). No way around that.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the codec(s) and bitrate and editing/processing that does the LEAST damage/loss.

A frame getting "smaller in size" is something you have control over with the Premiere Pro project settings and Render/Export settings.

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If this is too confusing for you, you're either going to have to:
1. Learn a whole lot more first,
2. Live with the loss of quality, or
3. Use a different editor that works specifically with MPEG2 and does only I-frame edits, living with the constraints that makes for your video (also needs some learning)

Scott

[Amar]

thanks bro