capturing footage from a dvd to 1.5 for editing

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dirdp

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I'm a director/dp that creates my demo reel for work a dvd. In the past I have had production companies produce this for me. AT this point I would like to cut my own demos not for broadcast but they do need to look good for clients and ad agencies. I have ripped a dvd containing a stck down of my spots like a library dvd and them custom posted a dvd demo for clients. The quality was very poor and a small window. it went in looking great and came out very poor. I shoot on 35mm and HD so the quality starts with the high end. Is there a way to capture or import from thedvd ? how do I keep the quality of the dvd ? it does not have to be broadcast but needs to look good for clients.

thanks

Kevin
 
Not a good idea of ripping video off a DVD. You will lose some quality. My advice is to see if you can find the original footage and used that. No matter how you rip it, its going to loose some of its quality. I'm sure most clients wouldn't care about compression artifacts.
 
Copy the .vob file from the disc to your harddrive. Then change the file extension .vob to .mpg and you're good to go.
 
if you dont have the original footage rsbushs way is the best just remember that dvd's are a presentation format and you really cant aviod artifacts if you plan on recompresing them. Best idea is to aviod touching them once you rename them to .mpg just create a dvd using those files
 
dirdp:
on PC, the method i personally used to rip from DVD without quality loss is the following:

1- Rip the DVD content to HD with smartripper (freeware): it allows you to copy direct stream of video and audio to HD. that's what you want. you will have MPG2 video and wav/ac3/mpg audio files.

2- I like editing with avi dv files. at least if i have to do something better than a few rough chops. therefore i convert all the ripped files to avi-dv. I use VirtualDub to do that (freeware i think), and it also allows me to do a first selection of the scenes (this is good since for a showreel you will want to get very small parts of each clip i guess) encoding just the parts i'm intrerested in. You will have to have the required codecs installed (eg. ac3 for dolby dig. audio files, mpeg2, dv codec for outputting to avi dv [i use a free panasonic dv codec])

3- Import the DV files in premiere and the fun can start!


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