DVD to PC - in highend quality
by mike55
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Nov 25, 2004 at 1:20:02 pm
Hi fellows,
From my customer I often get video material on DVD: VOB files.
(I have to edit the video material in After effects.)
How can I get this stuff on my pc hard disk without losing quality?
There are DVD rippers but they are encoding the video again and the quality is decreasing.
And it takes a lot of time.
How do you handle copying dvd to pc?
Re: DVD to PC - in highend quality by Steven L. Gotz on Nov 25, 2004 at 4:25:21 pm
Well, you could always copy the VOB to your PC and rename it from .VOB to .MPG and then bring it into After Effects. But I don't think you are going to be happy. I use ImToo DVD Ripper and it works fine converting to AVI for me to use in Premiere Pro ot After Effects. I don't see any compression problems to speak of.
Re: DVD to PC - in highend quality by mike55 on Nov 25, 2004 at 6:58:41 pm
Cooool! I love this method. Just rename the VOB file to mpg.
Why should I not be happy with this?
The only thing I´m missing is the sound.
How can I get the audio files?
Re: DVD to PC - in highend quality by feeblemind77 on Nov 27, 2004 at 1:07:19 am
maybe i'm not too computer literate but I thought that all you have to do to rename a file extension is right click and select rename and then simply rename the file extension. It changes nothing when I do that, so am I missing some software to do this or am I simply not doing it correctly? Any help is appreciated.
Re: DVD to PC - in highend quality by Steven L. Gotz on Nov 27, 2004 at 2:53:26 am
You might not be able to fool a Mac this way, but using Windows Explorer you should be able to copy a VOB from the DVD to the PC, and then change the extension to .MPG and then import it into After Effects. It works for me.
