Importing burned dvd movies into Imovie

I'm trying to put some of my home videos that are on DVD onto my iMovie but when I put the dvd in, it plays the dvd but the file has a red negative sign at the bottom right hand corner and when I open the file there is nothing in it, so I can't import it

See this link for [one way to do it|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2255575]

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    // following text is just copy/paste, no individual answer //
    DVDs are in a socalled delivery format (mpeg2), which isn't meant and made for any processing as editing... so, any conversion process will add a (dramatic) loss in picture quality.
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