DVD editing question

[apologetic]

My friend's wedding video absolutely sucks. The video needs some editing, and the dvd setup (chapters, etc.) need to be redone.

I've ripped the dvd using IMToo DVD Ripper, but the quality is poor. Any other programs available that would rip the DVD such that I can edit the video without losing any quality?

 

[Falloutboy]

well if its already in been compressed to dvd format your going to lose quality regardless of what way you edit it. now if you can get ahold of the raw tape you might be able to do something. All a ripper is going to do is take the raw mpeg2 stream off the disk so all rippers are pretty much equal in this respect.

and a note to all the people wanting there wedding shot get a professional if you want a quality job done. make sure you can see some of his work and he has references that you can call to verifiy he knows what he is doing

 

[warcrow]

Use DVDshrink to rip that bad boy. Nero to recreate it if needed.

You're problem is going to be that you are only going to have the footage available to you that is on the DVD, not all the footage that was taken (I assume you dont ahve the original tapes?). Still, if it sucks that bad, good luck. What're you using as an editor?

 

[apologetic]

Well, I have Adobe Premiere, but I have access to a computer with many others including Studio 9, Vegas, Pinnacle. What do you suggest?

When I rip it now I get many anomolies that are obvious (shows lower quality). I want to make something that can be shown on a TV and look pretty much the same.

Is there really no way to get a near lossless rip from the DVD? Would Divx or Xivd look about the same?

 

[Falloutboy]

adobe premiere is fine, once its ripped your best bet would be to use a program like virutal dub and reencode the video to some Mjpeg format that easier to work with for editing then when your done dump it back to Mpeg2 for dvd you'll still lose a fair bit of quality but it is really the only way to go