Transcoding form VOB format (DVD) to other format for editing.

Hello,
I've copied the content of a DVD the MPEG-2 VOB format, and I have to editing with that material. I was thinking of transcoding in a other format to work the edit. In what format I can work with in an easy way but keeping the best quality ?
Thanks for you attention !

but I never heard about loosing more quality in transcoding.
Then you don't do this much. Codecs are COMPRESSED formats. That is part of their name...CO...compression. DEC...decompression. Whenever you take a compressed format and convert it to ANOTHER compressed format, you lose image quality. Because compression is a way to throw away certain bits of information yet keep the image looking decent. Going from one format of compression to another...so different bits of information are thrown out...causes loss in quality. So if you transcode and transcode and transcode you lose information every single time. So you get loss in quality.
Always have.
Shane

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Complete name                            : C:\Users\Richard\Videos\Movies\Richards 50th Birthday\00014.MTS
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