Bringing in clips from DVD

Hey all,
I am a rank beginner on FCP 6. Am working on a documentary based on Gore's An inconvenient truth. I will need to import clips from gore's movie. I've looked at the contents of the DVD. There's a folder labelled VIDEO__TS. Therein are files with BUP, IFO and VOB extensions. Any suggestions?
karl

For non-commercial DVD's you need a program like Toast to rip video fom the DVD (Toast will generate QT-files that can be imported in NLE's like FC, iMovie).
For commercial DVD's that will not work as these DVD's are copy-protected.
I know there is software around to hak this protection, but as you know, this is illegal!

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I'd be happy to get it back to tape on my camcorder if that is the only way to do it, but I fear losing quality.
I've downloaded Mac the Ripper and Streamclip, but I don't want to pay extra money for any software (I'm a poor, starving student mom).
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Christine.

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wcn_dave
Sorry, up to your last post I was envisioning your issues to center mostly around the classical ripping of VOBs from the DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc.
That is an interesting switch, disc image iso format, in this mix. Never been there and done that, so I did. I have the Phantom Burner installed which allows me to "burn to a virtual disc" in this "virtual burner" to produce a disc image for the Premiere Elements 11 Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc.
After I mount the disc image iso into the Phantom Burner, I can go to Add Media/DVD Camera or Computer Drive/Video Importer, set the Source for the Phantom Burner drive, and bring the disc image into the Video Importer as VTS_01_1.VOB which can be brought into the Premiere Elements Expert workspace, using the Video Importer's Get Media.
If you got beyond that, I am not seeing the other problems that you say stop you from going further.
You wrote
In PE, I cannot do a 720x552 video, and it wont allow me to use the majority of file formats I have.
As it happens I am trying to get a few 5 second clips from a commerical DVD for a comedy montage I am making for a friends wedding anniversary.
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 4:3 source, what I suggest you look at is:
Open a new project
Go to File Menu/New/Project
In the new project dialog, set the project preset for PAL DV Standard.
Before you exit the new project dialog, put a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on this Project".
Then, when you are back in the Premiere Elements 11 Expert workspace, bring in your VOBs via Add Media/DVD camera or computer drive/Video Importer (with a check mark next to Add to Timeline...make sure you have the Save In set up correctly so that you do not get into an "already imported" type message (cannot save VOB with same name to same place...more on that if necessary).
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 16:9 widescreen, do the same but use the project preset PAL DV Widescreen.
As a reminder, the frame size for PAL DVD-VIDEO standard or widescreen is the same 720 x 576.
Please review what I have written and let us know if any of the above helped and/or you need clarification on anything that I have written.
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I like to know how to import video clips from a DVD? I tried and i could not figure out.
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I'm editing a project for a friend... most of the project was shot on a Sony PD150 in 16:9. At the end of the credits he wanted to put in a very short clip from a previous movie he made as a logo. He gave me a DVD of the film. One problem is that the clip itself is not true widescreen... the DVD is 4:3, letterboxed down to 16:9. If it's a smaller box in the widescreen frame that's probably okay since it's just a logo (we can probably throw in the production company name in the black areas).
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You'll likely find your answers faster by utilizing the Search function in the forum. That said, you can use MPEG Streamclip to demux and convert the DVD's VOB file into an editable format you can import and edit on FCP.
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In order to edit a DVD you have to make another one, in other words: bring the video into iMovie, edit, and burn a new DVD.
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, as well as the the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
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which is a mere $20.
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DVDs are in a socalled delivery format (mpeg2), which isn't meant and made for any processing as editing...
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How to import movie clips from DVD?

Hi,
A really stupid question, and possibly this has been asked before, but I am at my wits end--is there a way I can import video clips to iMovie from a DVD disc that contains video files? When I try to select 'import movies' from the file menu, it won't import the clips because the video files contained within the dvd are VOB. IFO. and BUP. formats, and the iMovie will only read MPEG or mov. Is there a way I can somehow import these clips by changing the setting somewhere in the iMovie or am I to require some other type of application to convert these files before I can successfully import them?
I'm really only trying to make a simple short clip, nothing big. The longest it will probably be is at most 5 mins. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Is there a way I can somehow import these clips by changing the setting somewhere in the iMovie or am I to require some other type of application to convert these files before I can successfully import them?
Not by changing a setting. Multiplexed MPEG-2 content is not iMovie '08 "edit" compatible. Either the content is recognized as being on a compatible camcorder and converts the content to an "edit" compatible compression format or you must manually convert the multiplexed MPEG-2 content yourself for import at the "Finder" file level.
Any suggestions?
If your VOB files are not encrypted (i.e., on a homemade DVD), then they can be copied to your hard drive. Once on your hard drive, you can use any of several applications to perform your conversion. Cost and work flow depend on the application you use. I normally recommend a new user try something like iSquint for their initial attempt. It is free and simple to use. Simply drop the copied VOB file containing the video you want to the application work area, set the "Optimize for TV" option, and press the "Start" button. This will produce an MPEG4/AAC file that can be edited. Other applications can produce alternative compression formats for editing but are either more difficult to use or are not totally free. My preference would by MPEG Streamclip here, but it requires a $20 QT MPEG-2 Playback component and s much more difficult to use since it has many more options and capabilities. Visual Hub (iSquint's "big brother") is as simple to use, but is a "pay-ware" application. In any case, the free application should allow you to do what you want and then you can decide if you need/want to invest more in the way of cost, time, and/or effort in a better application.
I use Quicktime pro as well to export any file to a version that iMovie will work with
Unfortunately, QT Pro will not work in this case since QT Pro is not conversion compatible with multiplexed MPEG-2 formats. Even if you add the $20 QT MPEG-2 Playback component, it will only convert the video portion of the file. Use an MPEG-based, third-party application like those mentioned above or FFmpegX (donation-ware/difficult to use) or MPEG2 Works (Pay-ware that also requires the $20 MPEG-2 component, etc.

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