DVD to editable AVI

[wyatt]

Hi, I've tried to find answers to my problems throughout this awesome website, but I just can't find everything.

What I'm trying to do is rip a DVD, convert the VOBs to AVIs, and then edit the AVIs in adobe premier.

I can rip the DVD just fin with DVDDecrypter, but I am having trouble getting a movie file under around 7 gigs that is still high quality. I've tried DVD2AVI, and VirtualDubMod - but VDM has white speckles in the dark areas of the film, and DVD2AVI doesn't export right for some reason.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated,

Thankyou
-wyatt

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,

honestly instead of decoding the vobs to avi, i'd recommend you try the frameserving approach, either with vfapi or with avisynth/ffdshow

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm - avisynth
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/vfapi_reader_codec.htm - vfapi

if you really want to get a real avi (for whatever reasons you might have) i would recommend you to use the avisynth frameserving approach to encode the dvd content to huffyuv (be careful huge filesizes!)

kr
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