Can't import my video from DVD

I have a homemade video (no copyright issues) that was made into a DVD, and I want to import it into iMovie, but I can't manage to do so. Any tips? FileVault is not turned on.

You need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need Streamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, as well as the the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.

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