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Help needed importing from a home made DVD to iMovie
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My brother recently had someone make a DVD of his wedding and they did a rubbish job and never even put in any chapter marks let alone menus. So my Brother has asked me to re edit it and put in a few menus and chapters. So what I need to know is how I can get the video and audio from the DVD into iMovie or iDVD so that I can add chapters, menus and some photos. I have been able to open the VOB files in the video_ts folder and view them using an app called VLC. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Join Date: May 2000
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Since it's not a commercial DVD, it's mostly not copy protected. To avoid conversions, mux-demux, mpeg2, whatever... I'm not a big fan of DVD ripping and all that mess. You could just copy the DVD to a DV camera. Then you'll will be able to digitize it in iMovie or FCP and do whatever you wish.
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Won't I lose a lot of quality if I do that ?
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It's already compress in MPEG-2. To add chapter markers and all, you will have to convert it anyway. And by definition any conversion is lossy. The transfer to DV option is a more practical one. If you use the s-video output of the DVD, the loss shouldn't be that big a deal. Since the DVD is more compressed than the DV format it sould be OK. (You can put 2 hours of video on a DVD, but 2 hours of DV takes about 24Gb.) It's just that once the footage is in DV format, you have a lot more options.
The best would be for you to get the original video that was used to make the DVD.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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You could do basic track editing and chapter marks directly on the demuxed mpeg-2 files and resync the audio to the video tracks, all without transcoding, if you had DVDSP. I'm not sure if iDVD can do this. You could simply add chapter marks using Toast and probably some other freeware apps without transcoding.
I would avoid transcoding from the mpegs to DV simply because it takes so damn long. If you could do a transfers over s-video to a DV tape the quality loss should be acceptable especially if your not watching it on a computer or HDTV.
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Join Date: May 2002
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try this, it's free:
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
it converts non-copy-protected dvds into dv streams (for working in iMovie 2Gb chunks)
concerning quality: most "homebrewed" movies (mine inlcuded) have a quality where converting doesn't matter 
(who uses tripods? additional light? extra mics?)
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