Importing DVD material to FCP??

Hi,
I am editing a wedding video for someone but the only format they have the footage in is a burned DVD (vob files and the like)...How can I import this into FCP? I tried downloading the program DVDxDV, which converts DVD's into quicktime files and it works fine on my computer, but whenever I import the converted file into FCP and then burn it onto a DVD (to view it on a television) the quality is terrible (choppy and shaky). I don't have a DV deck, but is my last resort to get one and copy all of the footage onto miniDV tapes and then re-import them into FCP via a deck? Is there any other way to go about it?
Thanks,
Danielle

WEll, you are taking an MPEG2, truning it into a QT and then recompressing into MPEG2 again. Not a good workflow for preservation of image quality. If you have to do it this way, there's not much you can do about it. The technology is what it is...

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