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Hi all. Newbie here. Long time fan of this web site.

Anyway, I have some technical questions. If this has been discussed already, I apologize.

All the fan edits out there and discussions have inspired me to give it a try. However, I have no idea what do do.

How do I get the movie from the DVD to an editable AVI or MPEG with the best possible quality? Should I edit in AVI or MPEG-2? Are there any free DVD ripping tools I should use?

Etc. Etc.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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First of all, I use DVD Shrink to rip the DVD.

The resulting MPEG (VOB) can be dropped into Vegas for editing, if you have the MPEG-2 plug-in. You can also drop it into VirtualDubMod.

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Alternatively, you can rip the DVD using DVD Decrypter and convert the .vob file to an .avi using VirtualDub-MPEG. Then I use Adobe Premiere to edit the .avi file.
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A couple of ways to do it.
If you wanted to play with "just the movie" part of a disc, grab dvdshrink (it is free) and open it up and then click on 'Open Disc'
Then once it has analysed the disc for you, click on 'reauthor' and then just grab 'title1' from under the heading 'main movie' and drag it over to the dvdstructure window on the left hand side.
Under the 'compression' tab - choose "no compression"

Then choose 'Backup' and under 'Select Backup Target' choose "hard disc folder"

Then off you go.
(You could also untick the option under 'Edit/Preferences/Output Files/ Split into 1GB chunks if you just wanted the whole movie in a single file)

Once that is done, grab virtualdubmod (it is also free) and you can open the new .vob file(s) from your hard disc directly.
You can then save it out into any format you want, or do what you like from that point onwards with the video editing software of choice.
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to create a continuous single vob over 4GB your going to need NTFS for starters. Extract your movie to a single vob via dvdshrink, then use something like womble MPEG video wizard to edit the vob without having to re-encode. The more you change ie filter or crop the original mpeg the longer it will take to write the edited mpeg file. You can also do basic vob editing via Tmpgenc DVD author, load the vob in and go to the chapter/edit screen. Again this will not change the compression or the quality of the mpeg video.
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Hey guys, thanks for all the terrific info. I think I know what I'm doing now.

By the way, does anyone know why I am unable to upload my own icon?