Ripping DVDs to hard drive for editing.

[Rocket]

Hi.
I have a Blu-ray external burner on my PC. I have Magix Movie Edit, Nero 11 and software Cyberlink media suite that came with the Blu-ray burner .
Some time ago I recorded all my old videos to DVD via a Video - DVD unit.
I now wish to place my DVDs onto my hard drive, edit and then burn to Blu-ray, but I cannot find a way to burn/copy to the hard drive, all software wants me to copy to disc. I must be missing something or doing something wrong.
UNLESS, I need a DVD capture software ?.
Any guidance would be grateful.

 

[sep9001]

Try makemkv or handbrake.

 

[Ulfric M Douglas]

Nero can definitely do it, (dig through the help menu and settings?)
although I always try an ancient program called "DVDShrink", you can find it on oldversion, I think.

Ah yes,

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/dvdshrink/

I just always like the way it did stuff.

 

[Rocket]

Thanks , I thought Nero should do it, but just can't find how. I will check out the link.
Also just had a look at WinX ripper.

I am using Windows 7

 

[cosmicma]

if you want to make a compilation from your olds dvd's you would need to convert the VOB files back to mpeg 2 with something like winFF
http://winff.org/html_new/

once converted back to mpeg2 you can now use a video editor of you choice to compile and burn to blu-ray

 

[st599]

Most video VOB files are MPEG2 already - transcoding would lower the quality.

Anything FFMPEG based should be able to convert a disc to mov or similar without trasncoding.

 

[Rocket]

Thanks for the latest replies, have not got round to doing anything as yet, hopefully in the next few days...

 

[D Probert]

there is an easy solution to this.
stick the dvd in the computer drive, copy the contents of the video ts folder onto your hard drive.
re name the .vob files to .mpg you can tell which are the ones you want because of the large file size.
they are named like VTS_01_1.VOB etc just change to VTS_01_1.mpg
then edit with your favorite program.
hope this helps

CHEERS Dave P

 

[cosmicma]

Most video VOB files are MPEG2 already - transcoding would lower the quality.

Anything FFMPEG based should be able to convert a disc to mov or similar without trasncoding.

i agree but a vob file is a container for the mpeg 2 video it also carries extra information such as time code data and file offset data some editing programs get upset with the extra data some don't