Originally posted by: What.Cobbler?

Hi! I have mastered using DVD Decrypter and/or Slysoft AnyDVD, but now I'm having trouble making a quality DVD file for editing on Adobe Premiere. When I use AoA DVD Ripper to rip a DVD file as a large "Pinnacle DV" file, I have to deinterlace it so it doesn't look jittery, and either way, the Pinnacle AVI is a mere shell of its original DVD quality, in terms of sharpness and color. Is there any way I can fix this with AoA, or is there a better program for making an AVI that I can edit with Premiere (my only choice for an editing platform at the moment). Any thoughts, folks?

I never heard of AoA DVD Ripper, so I can't help you there.

If your version of Pinnacle Studio handles regular mpeg2, then that'd be a lot better.

Converting to DV (and converting back for authoring the dvd) will lose a lot of quality (you'll get blocky color, because they handle color differently, and the recompressions will mess things up, a lot). You can rip with DVD Decrypter and/or AnyDVD, the way ADM's Guide says. The M2V files will be mpeg2 files, I'm sure you could just rename them to mpeg and Pinnacle would be happy with them.

Your jitteryness might be from interlacing. If the DVD is from pure film, You might need to get rid of the pulldown flags with DGPulldown.