Converting a DVD to DV format, harder than I thought

[Hamburglar]

Okay, I am at the point of ripping my hair out here. I have a DVD I want to edit in the DV format. I've tried DVD2AVI and VirtualDubMOD.

Let me tell you what happens.
I rip the DVD to my PC using Smart Ripper, everything rips good. I open the VOB in DVD2AVI, I cut out the part I want, and I choose a DV codec to save it to. The DVD is 4:3 if that helps. Anyway, I rip it to my hard drive using any DV codec I want, such as MainConceptDV codec or Canopus, same thing happens with both. I view the finished video and the video is VERY jittery, in the sense that fields were reversed or something. So the DV codecs have options to reverse fields, that doesn't work either. Just as jittery, if not more.

ONE of the options works, but then when I run it through Vegas and export it, the jitters reappear!!

I am about to pull my hair out. ALL I WANT is to convert this VOB to an editable DV file. If someone could help me with that I'd be eternally grateful.

[echooff]

I guess I'm not quite following your explantion. I open the VOB in DVD2AVI, I cut out the part I want, and I choose a DV codec to save it to. What container are you saving this file in. What program are you using to encode the video with. Your description leads me to believe you are not doing a encode. What container does your finished product need to be. Please provide more information.

[killingspree]

@echooff: i think he is using dvd2avi to encode the video to a dv codec (resulting in a DV AVI)

@hamburglar: dvd2avi is not used to convert dvds to avis anymore as it is fairly outdated. what we do use dvd2avi for, is indexing. (save project...) which results in a d2v file that indexes certain atributes of each frame which can be used for frameserving purposes.

see this guide (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm) for some intstructions on how to frameserver to vdub (which than can be used to save an avi in DV format)

on the 'jittery' playback issues... since your DVD is 4:3 i'm almost 100% sure that it is interlaced (the picture doesn't consist of frames, but of fields) - now it depends if your DVD is PAL or NTSC, how exactly you have to treat it, but you have to be aware of the fact that it is, since usually computers treat video as progressive.

hth
steVe