ripping DVD HELP!!!

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Hey guys.


( PC USER )

I have a DVD i made alast year of my trip to prague ( approximately 24 minutes in length ) and because of a hard drive crash, all i have left of it is what on this precious DVD that i am taking oh so much care of.

I wanted to back it up once again by taking the DVD and somehow turning it back int oa file that icould keep on my computer while retaining the highest possible quality ( per chance i would ever want to edit it again or anything of that sort )

My brother, as the tech computer guru, encoded it using high quality two pass Xvid. However problems arose. While watching the footage, i noticed something was off, but i was not quite sure what it was.

Then taking a closer look, i noticed almost ALL of the footage looked like it was shot at 1/24th shutter speed. Somehow the encoder made all motion in my video completely blurred, but retaining a high quality picture. This is a big disapointment and would very much like to resolve this issue asap. So for those who know of a better way to do this, please, i would love your help.

Thanks all.

-Jon
 
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Try mpeg streamclip freeware it works. Tsunami MPEG Encoder and there is one more brand cinema something I believe they cost money around 50 dollars but are much more intuitive.

good luck
 
Copy your DVD files (VOB only) to hard drive and merge them with program called VobMerge (free). Yes, bigger file than Xvid, but now you have highest possible quality.
Then simply rename this .vob to .mpg after that.
With Xvid you compress this video even more and Xvid is not editable very well.
 
so that worked great man.

the only thing is, i had to interpret the footage back into a 16x9 format, but now its being displayed as 30fps and not 24. which means i cant edit it o na 24p timeline or add anything to it thats been shot at 24 p, any solutions here?
 
Don't know much about how NTSC DVD works (I'm in PAL land) but if I remember correctly then NTSC DVD cannot be 24fps, but 29,97fps. DVD player does this 30->24 conversion in real time.
Can be mistaken of course...
 
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