Copying and EDITING a previously burned DVD-R

hi
I have a two hour long home/wedding video that has been burned to a dvd-r. I dont have the original footage. I would like to delete a small clip from the middle of it. I imported it into iMovie ( i created the iMovie project once as DV and then the second time as MPEG-4) I then deleted the 10 second clip and burned it with iDVD. The quality came out extremely poor both times. (Pixels are huge, you can see little squares.) The original DVD-R is great quality and copies made using Disk Utility are the same great quality.
Is there another way i should edit or burn it that wouldn't cause this quality loss?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, Robert,
I think you have the right idea, but you will have to check your camcorder settings. To record from a DVD Player, you need to connect the AV ports on the player...usually those red/white/yellow connectors...to the AV port on the camcorder...usually specific to the camcorder, small halfcircle size.
You need to set your camcorder to the VTR setting, and then use the menu to find something that looks like REC CTRL. When you click on that, you should see the DVD image in the camcorder screen, and have the options of REC PAUSE or REC START. Hit the Pause one until you are ready to play the DVD, then hit the record one. A small dot appears on the camcorder screen indicating recording.
If this does not work, you may have a very recent Sony camcorder. I understand that the most recent ones do not have this option. Which camcorder do you have?
Regarding the copying to iMovie of VOB files.... you cannot import them directly into iMovie. iMovie uses DV format only. You need to convert the VOB files. You can do this with StreamClip.
Have a look at these posts for help doing it that way:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5032114&#5032114
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5011530&#5011530
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4952730&#4952730
Hope this is helpful to you.

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