How to recover a movie from a DVD?

I made a movie of our Yosemite trip (using Photo2Movie and iMovieHD 6.0.3), then finished it using iDVD 6.0.4. I burned copies to disk and mailed to my friends.
Then (this is where I am embarrassed) I lost all the files that I used to create the movie. (In response to the inevitable comment - I am a fanatic about backing up. I keep two separate back-ups of my hard drive. I have no idea how I lost those files.)
A friend mailed back to me the DVD that I sent to him. What is the best way to get that data back onto my hard drive? Do I just copy the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders to my hard drive? Or do I create a disk image of the DVD? Or something else?
Thanks in advance for any advice/explanation you can provide. (When I made the movie, I just blundered along, never completely understanding what I was doing.)

Hi Clinto
And welcome to apple discussions. If you just want to be able to make additional copies then use apple's disc utility (or Toast) to copy the actual dvd or the video_ts (your choice) to another DVD-R.
On the other hand if you wish to redo the editing and content of the dvd (which I don't recommend since you'll take a hit in quality) then consider using an app like:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.products.htm
other apps may work for you also like Mpegstreanclip or Visual Hub (if you can find it still).
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