Transfer a movie from a DVD to Digital tape

After completing an iDVD movie project, I burned it to a DVD, but unfortunately then deleted all the movie and iDVD data to make room for subsequent projects.
I noted a glaring textual error when later playing the DVD - too late to edit.
Is it possible to download the movie from the DVD disc to digital camera tape using the firewire - the reverse process used to originally build the iMovie data?
Ewald

Sure, that's possible. But if the idea is to correct the text, you'll probably suffer less quality loss if you convert/uncompress the digital files on the DVD into a format that you can work with. Basically, you'll be converting VOB files to MPEG-2 and then uncompressing them to DV Stream format (.dv) that iMovie likes. Do a search in this forum for "Streamclip" or "converting DVD" to get some ideas for workflow steps.
John

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