preparing DVD clips for editing

[Séamus]

Hi,
I'd like to take some clips off of a DVD (set my own start and end frame) and edit them with Adobe Premiere. So what I need is a decent video stream that I can import and an audio stream, preferably WAV.

I've read in another thread that can I rip parts from a DVD with DVDShrink
But that doesn't give me the video and audio stream.

Will DVD2AVI give me the best streams to import in Premiere ?

Thanks,
Séamus

edit: I'm already on track on how to do it, I really need to RTFM more :D
So basically...demux a cell with DVD decrypter, avisynth with MPEG decoder and PremiereAVSPlugin and for the audio BeSweet of course, AC3->WAV
Seems to work :p

[niann]

If you want the best video quality and you have a lot of room for files on your HDD, then I would suggest the following...

1. Rip the VOB files to your HDD with the ripper of your choice...

2. Use DVD2AVI to make a project file.

3. Use an avisynth script to be able to load your project file into Virtualdub. (Make sure you put an "assumeFPS(24)" in your script, as Premiere can not edit in 23.97 timecode yet...)

4. Cut the clips you want to edit out of VirtualDub and compress them with the Huffyuv codec. (This codec works well for editing, most mpeg4 codecs do not. You can still encode your final project in whatever codec you want.

5. Edit away...

Now Like I said, you need a ton of HDD space to make this work. I dont know how long of a timeline in Premire you are working with I am guessing anything over 20mins would require too much HDD to be resonable.

Any Q's post them here I will try and answer, and by no means is this the only way to do this, it is just the way that I use and works best for me. :)

Cheers!
-Niann

[niann]

I forgot to mention, that you will need to use BeSweet to adjust the framerate of you audio before importing it into Premiere. If you don't the audio will be ever so slightly out of sync.

Cheers!
-Niann

[oddyseus]

Nian is suggesting the best and loosless procedure that u can follow for your task. However there is another way that guarantees the exact same quality but it doesn't require this amount of space.

Assuming that u have a reasonable fast computer u can follow the slightly changed proc below

1. Rip the VOB files to your HDD with the ripper of your choice...

2. Use DVD2AVI to make a project file.

3. Install vfapi codec (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/VFAPIConv-1.05-EN.zip) and run the project d2v files that u created. This will produce some pseudoavi files that u can import to premiere and edit them as usual.

4. no need for step 4

5. Import to Premiere and Edit away...

6. Export the final audio/video

Tip. U can demux any 5.1 audio in your clips to mono wav files, edit them and reproduce the edited audio using besweet.

Now u don't need all this HDD space and the whole process is a bit more straightforward. I think :)

[niann]

Oddyseus,

I never thought of that, I am going to try that with my next project. Thanks for the heads up. :)

Cheers!
-Niann