Editing DVD video

I have a client who is providing to me DVDs of various videos he has had produced, and wishes me to include them in a website. Since I got Premiere Pro as part of my CS4 package, I thought, no problem - I can just import the DVD video and edit out the first bit (the color bars and a blue screen with the production notes/title for the TV stations), and reencode it as an FLV to put on my media server and play via a streaming player.
I got it loaded into premeir (after I found I couldn't just open a video, but rather have to start a new project - very annoying!), I figured out how to place the .vob file onto the timeline after I imported it into the project... but now I cannot figure out how to select the first 24 seconds and delete it.
I tried searching the local and online help files, but nothing came up. This can't be that rare, can it?
Thanks!

I cannot figure out how to select the first 24 seconds and delete it.
You've gotten links to some tutorials, that will tell you how to do this and more, but for those following along at home, there are two quick ways to do just this:
1.) Click on the Head of your Video Clip, and drag it to the right. I'd do this with the Info Panel visible, just to make sure that my "click-drag" was perfectly 00;00;24;00 (there are other monitors for the TimeCode, but I like Info Panel). If you wish to leave that 24 sec. gap, just click-drag. If you wish the new Head to move to 00;00;000;00, add the Ctrl key, and when you Trim that 24 sec., the new In Point (Head) will move to the beginning of the Timeline.
2.) Move the CTI (Current Timeline Indicator) to 00;00;24;00, and hit Ctrl+k to Razor your targeted Tracks' Clips at that point. Rt-click and choose Ripple Delete to close that gap, or Clear to leave it.
As for starting a Project first, that is the basis for all work to be done, and its settings should reflect your source Assets. Trust me, you really do not want to even try to imagine Video editing without a Project. I know it sounds like unnecessary work, when all you want to do is just edit, but it is the entire foundation of any editing session. You cannot build a skyscraper without a foundation - you would not want to try it here either.
Good luck,
Hunt

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  • Editing DVD files

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    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.

    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.

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