Need advise how to demux archived footages from back up DVDs...

Dear All:
We used to archieve all our DVCAM footages into DVDs, however, by doing so, we creat a problem which we not expect to encounter sometimes down the road...
Every once in a while, we need to reprocess old footages, may be adding new captions, dubbing second language over the original soundtracks etc., We need to find a reliable workflow to tackle this perticular issue, is there any decent, reliable mux-demux softwares out there? In addition, is there any signal downgrade by using such demux process?
By the way, We are using Final Cut Pro 5, iMovie 5, iDVD 5, DVD Studio Pro in our workshop...
Thanks in advance!!
Kevin

Kevin--
Change your workflow as quickly as possible...Putting footage on dvd is a terrible way to archive if you are going to have to use that footage again.(Your current situation.)
You probably won't take much of a hit when demuxing the dvd footage, but it will be compressed again once you burn the next dvd...not always such a pretty sight...or at least not as good as if you had the original.
Also, any artifacts introduced by encoding and compression the 1st time around will be there to stay. (Example: I was just given some football highlights on dvd..a lot of pixellation. No way to get rid of it. If I use it in my highlight video it's there to stay. Asked the supplier to give me the original tape...Was told it was already taped over. I think you get my point.)
Archive to dv tape, an external hard drive, etc.
Hope this helps. I'm sure others will chime in with helpful suggestions.
T.

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