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Need help converting DVD to AVI for editing
I am looking for some help or suggestions with a project I have inherited.
A friend had some home movies converted to DVD by a local mastering company. But now he wants to replace the original audio with a commentary and master it back to DVD. Unfortunately he doesn’t have all of the original footage, and he isn’t willing to pay the mastering company to do it for him. So he has asked me, since I have a new Pioneer DVR-A03 that I haven’t gotten the chance to really play with.
What I need to do is get the video off the DVD (4:3 NTSC interlaced) in a format that Adobe Premier can edit. Edit in the new audio which he has already recorded and given to me in WAV format, and recreate the DVD. I have DVDit, but from what I have heard there may be better, more reliable programs out there. I also have a few Pioneer 4.7G DVD-R disks that came with the drive, but can get other media if it works better.
But I have run into a problem with the first part. I don’t have a video import card, and really don’t want to spend the half a grand it seems to cost to get a good hobbyist model. So I was trying to use some of the DVD conversion tools to rip the video into uncompressed AVI. I have had the best luck with Flask (v.6), but I have one problem that I can’t get past. When I watch the vob file (I saved it to my hard drive) in WinDVD it looks fine. But when I open it in Flask and just play it, I get really bad interlacing (I think this is referred to as tearing, but please correct me if I am wrong). When I rip it and then play it in WinDVD again, the tearing it terrible. I have used a few of the online guides to set up flask, but I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. The strangest part is, if I try to rip vob file from a good progressive title (like Ghost in the Shell) it looks fine both in play mode in Flask and when I “Flask it†and play it in WinDVD.
Any help, any suggestions would be very helpful. If there is any way to get this video out in near original quality without the purchase of extra hardware I would much prefer that.
Thanks
-Vey
A friend had some home movies converted to DVD by a local mastering company. But now he wants to replace the original audio with a commentary and master it back to DVD. Unfortunately he doesn’t have all of the original footage, and he isn’t willing to pay the mastering company to do it for him. So he has asked me, since I have a new Pioneer DVR-A03 that I haven’t gotten the chance to really play with.
What I need to do is get the video off the DVD (4:3 NTSC interlaced) in a format that Adobe Premier can edit. Edit in the new audio which he has already recorded and given to me in WAV format, and recreate the DVD. I have DVDit, but from what I have heard there may be better, more reliable programs out there. I also have a few Pioneer 4.7G DVD-R disks that came with the drive, but can get other media if it works better.
But I have run into a problem with the first part. I don’t have a video import card, and really don’t want to spend the half a grand it seems to cost to get a good hobbyist model. So I was trying to use some of the DVD conversion tools to rip the video into uncompressed AVI. I have had the best luck with Flask (v.6), but I have one problem that I can’t get past. When I watch the vob file (I saved it to my hard drive) in WinDVD it looks fine. But when I open it in Flask and just play it, I get really bad interlacing (I think this is referred to as tearing, but please correct me if I am wrong). When I rip it and then play it in WinDVD again, the tearing it terrible. I have used a few of the online guides to set up flask, but I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. The strangest part is, if I try to rip vob file from a good progressive title (like Ghost in the Shell) it looks fine both in play mode in Flask and when I “Flask it†and play it in WinDVD.
Any help, any suggestions would be very helpful. If there is any way to get this video out in near original quality without the purchase of extra hardware I would much prefer that.
Thanks
-Vey
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