Dvd capture - Dvd home movies captured to HD

Question

HI, I have several home that was from old vhs tapes. A while back I captured them and burned them to dvd as movies.
Now I would like to take these DVD's and burn them on a hard drive. My feeling is I will get a 500 gig hard drive and burn all of the home movies on the drive. Seems like a better soloution then saving them to DVD.
So my question is how do I play the dvd into my computer and the save it on a hard drive for later viewing?

Answer 1

This is a suggestion posted by AppleMan, who seems quite knowledgeable regarding iMovie 9:
+I have found I get the best results when I use MPEG Streamclip (which is free). You also have to install the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component which costs about $20. Once you install the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component, you don't have to interact with it, but MPEG Streamclip needs it.+
+Insert your DVD in your drive. If DVD player runs automatically, shut it down. You should see your DVD as an icon on the desktop. Open it is a finder winder. You should see a folder which has VOB files.+
+Open MPEG Streamclip and drag these VOB files into Streamclip. If it offers to fix timecode breaks, say yes. You can do the VOB files one by one if you want to deal with shorter clips. Or, you can drag all the VOB files at once and create one long clip, or use streamclip to separate them into smaller clips.+
+In Streamclip, select File/Export using Quicktime and choose Apple Intermediate Codec. You may want to check "Deinterlace" in this step. Try deinterlacing and see if you like it. It depends on your final target media as to whether this will help.+
+Now you should have MOV files in Apple Intermediate Codec which can be imported into iMovie.+
+If you want, you can create a folder under iMovie Events and export these clips from MPEG Streamclip directly to that folder. The next time you open iMovie, it will generate thumbnails.+
Post back if this does not help you.