Copying Movie DVD

I wish to take a movie DVD or a Movie BluRay and copy this onto my hard drive… subsequently I want to do the following:
1   Make a complete DVD copy for my own private usage. I am NOT interested in doing anything illegal and my understanding is that in EU it is allowed to copy a DVD for your own usage.
2   Have the ability to build a large DVD library on a very large HDD (several cascaded together) so that I can use this for my home cinema and put the original DVD's (and the backup) in a box somewhere.
3   I want to be able to select short amount of video / sound track and have that in a format that I can import to Premier Pro (AVI etc)
Does anyone have any suggestions how to do this? Which software do I need to buy or download that achieves the above with 1:1 quality (ie no compression) and removes any encryption in the process.
Many thanks
regards

Hi
I have read the Terms of Use and do NOT see a conflict.…ould you clarify.
I assume that the concern is about the legal position with respect to encryption, and copyright laws etc. I believe that in Europe we are permitted to make a backup copy of a DVD and place this on a HDD. Also I believe that I can use for personal use on my Mac parts of a movie video as I have legally bought the right to view the movie albeit within the home environment with my family, which is all that I wish to do.
Thanks for clarification.

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