Capture coverage on a DVD

I have three long and boring DVDs of soccer games that I am supposed to edit into a little video for the soccer team banquet. This is pro bono work and technical quality is not a factor. Is there any way to capture a DVD directly into FCP. I tried copying the folder but do not know what to do with them to try and extract the video. Any thoughts? There is no copyright protection or issues.

Problem is I don't have the through-camera-to-firewire option available to me right now. So I am doing streamclip. I tried to convert to AVI files but then FCP would not recognize it. So now I am converting to QuickTime with the option setting at DV/DVCPRO- NTSC.
I can import this successfully into FCP so I am off to the races.
As mentioned earlier, technical quality is not a priority. I got hood-winked into doing this project and am not thrilled about spending my Sunday going over out-of-focus pics taken by some mom in the stands to go with the pathetic video coverage. But the banquet is tomorrow, so there it is. In addition, the camera malfunctions every now and then, the coverage is too wide to actually see any action, and the audio is painful... basically, it is your typical horrible high school production nightmare.
Enough venting.

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yepp, make use of the Search Feature of this board
welcome NJ Rose to the  iMovie baords ..
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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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Depending upon whether you mean desperate in terms of time required to deliver the project or just for a solution, you can quickly output to DVD using iDVD as follows.
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The file renaming mentioned above didn't work for me. I ended up with multiple errors.
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