Lab Handbook

Copying/Editing video from DVD

This is incomplete documentation for extracting video and audio from a DVD for importing into Adobe Encore DVD or Adobe Premiere.

Extracting video and audio using DVD Decrypter

Locate DVD Decrypter in the Start Menu. You will find it in All Programs.

If this is the first time you are using the program, be sure to set some defaults.

Choose Settings... from the Tools menu.

Click the IFO Mode tab.

In the Options section, change File Splitting to None.

Click the Sounds tab.

Uncheck both Success Sound and Error Sound.

Click OK.

From the Mode menu, choose IFO.

With the Input tab selected, you need to select the Chapter(s) you want to extract from the DVD. If there are many, the best way to find out which ones you want is to play the DVD in Windows Media Player and note the Titles and Chapters on the right-hand side of the viewing window as you are playing the DVD.

Click the Stream Processing tab.

Check the Enable Stream Processing checkbox.

Check only 1 video track and/or only 1 audio track.

Some DVDs have multiple video and audio tracks. In most cases, you want to choose the ones that are named 0xE0 and 0xA0, as shown in the example.

If you click the Video and Audio line(s), they should all read Direct Stream Copy in the Stream section, as shown.

In the Destination section, click the small folder icon.

Choose a destination for your video and audio file(s). You should always save video files on the D: drive on magahi (our AV computer).

Click the Make New Folder button if you haven't created a folder for yourself in which to save your video and audio file(s).

Finally, click the large "DVD-to-disk" button.

This will result in one "VOB" file in your destination folder. The VOB file you created is nothing more than a standard MPEG movie file.

For the following steps, you should rename your VOB file to MPEG. If you can't see the .VOB on the end of the file, you will need to turn off "Hide extensions for known file types". To do this, open a "My Documents" window, select Folder Options... from the Tools menu. Click the View tab, then uncheck Hide extensions for known file types.

Importing an MPEG (from a VOB) movie into Adobe Encore DVD 1.5

Open a new project.

Save the project in your own folder on the D: drive on magahi (our AV computer).

From the File menu, choose Import as Timeline... to load in your MPEG (VOB) movie.

From here, you can insert chapter points, load menus, and do all the normal things you can do with Adobe Encore DVD in order to make your DVD.

Importing an MPEG (from a VOB) movie into Adobe Premiere Pro

Create a new Premiere project.

For most of the video you will be working with, choose the Standard 48kHz DV-NTSC preset.

Select your own folder in which to save your premiere project file. Since Premiere creates a lot of temporary files, you should create your project within a new empty folder.

From the File menu, choose Import... to load in your MPEG (VOB) movie.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Importing MPEG video into Premiere is not ideal if the purpose is to edit the video and re-copy the movie back to DVD. When the video is re-transcoded back to DVD MPEG format, you will re-compress already compressed video, and you will lose video quality. If you absolutely have to use Premiere to edit video before saving to DVD, try to start with the original video source, whether it's from a DV movie file, miniDV or DV tape, or even VHS tape rather than video from a DVD source.