Editing DVD files

Question

I really don't know which program I can use to edit my wedding DVD. It's a Video_TS after all. The DVD begins with a poem, but the photographer made it rolls fast, so a viewer can't read it, unless he/she pauses it a few times.
So if iMovie does it, which file do I need to open, or I shall convert, so I can edit those 60 seconds of less, in other words slow down the screen play and then bring it back to normal and burn the improved version.

Answer 1

iDVD is an authoring program, not an editing program. To do edits on your videos, you will need to extract the video files from the DVD, put them into iMovie, edit and then create an iDVD project, put the edited iMovie into it and burn a new DVD disk from that new project.
You cannot just drag out the Video_TS file, you need to use some application to accomplish this, such as Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/
Ripit http://ripitapp.com/
or the free MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ You may need to get the $20 mpeg2 component to have Streamclip work properly: http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A
Ripit claims to be easy to capture right into iMovie. You can look at the free demo.
Here is a method from AppleMan to get DVD video into iMovie using Streamclip:
+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.+
Post back if you have further questions.