How to get DVD's into Final Cut 5

I have been given raw footage of my son's wedding shot in HD and put on 5 DVD's. It is in standard definition on the DVD. How can I get it into Final Cut 5 to edit? I have always worked from miniDV tapes and am at a loss as to how to make this work. Can anyone make a suggestion.

I'm guessing the DVD's you received are playable DVDs - not just being used to hold the date from the camera - so, if that IS the case -
MPEG Streamclip can take the VIDEO_TS files from those DVDs and convert them to an editable format.
Just do a google search for it, you'll find it.
(BTW, those DVDs will be far less quality than what it was shot on if it was HD. You may want to get the master footage.)
pJ

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