DVD question

My friend gave me a "vacation" DVD that was created in Australia. When I play it on my mac, it looks great. When I play it on my DVD player, its black and white and corrupted. Is this a PAL vs NTSC issue?
My second question is how do I create a quicktime file of the DVD so that I can bring it into Final Cut?
THanks!

Non protected DVD's don't need to be ripped at all with MTR , you can drag the VIDEO_TS file to the desktop then open it in MPEG Streamclip (free, but to edit MPEG 2 you need Apple's MPEG-2 component which is not) and cut/trim it there. Dragging is much faster as well. And there is no need to buy Cinematize pro either.
MTR for non-protected DVD's as this is, is useful if you do want a particular title , chapter or title and range of chapters on the DVD. Play it to find out what part you want then use the Title/chapter setting to make a new VIDEO_TS folder of that selected portion.
MPEG Streamclip is superior video export quality to Handbrake by a factor of 10.
You can also change the frame rate if you want to convert PAL to NTSC - I have found at times files that are 25 fps (PAL) that I want to put on DVD in Toast. I convert them using MPEG STreamclip to the 29.97 FPS so Toast doesn't have a conniption when it sees a mix of 25 and 30 fps source files.
For a free application it is the most versatile video editing/converting toolkit that exists.

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