Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so that I
can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a much more
professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk, presumably
in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle Studio?

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so that
I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a much more
professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk, presumably
in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle Studio?

Look at the DVD in explore the vob files should be copied to the HD then
change the Extn VOB to mpg and Now you can edit them

"Trev" trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet wrote in message
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"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so
that
I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a much
more
professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk,
presumably
in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle Studio?

Look at the DVD in explore the vob files should be copied to the HD then
change the Extn VOB to mpg and Now you can edit them

Thank you for that Trev. I've just tried with one of the *.vob files and
Pinnacle Studio informs me that I need to get an advanced codec for £6.00.
I'm working on it. Is this what you would expect?

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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"Trev" trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet wrote in message
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"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so
that
I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a much
more
professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk,
presumably
in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle Studio?

Look at the DVD in explore the vob files should be copied to the HD then
change the Extn VOB to mpg and Now you can edit them

Thank you for that Trev. I've just tried with one of the *.vob files and
Pinnacle Studio informs me that I need to get an advanced codec for £6.00.
I'm working on it. Is this what you would expect?

If you dont have the MPEG 2 Codec possibly yes But I thought it was Included

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so that
I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a much more
professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk, presumably
in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle Studio?

Malcolm,
Do you still have those VHS tapes? As you want tp re-edit,
you will probably get a better result by re-capturing them on
your present computer directly into your video-editing program
than by 'ripping' them back from the DVD you made, which
will be in MPEG2 (compressed) format. Cut-only editing
on MPEG2 video streams is lossless, but anything else will
reduce quality noticeably.
HTH
--
Rob

"Oldish sod" wrote in message
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"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so
that I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a
much more professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new
DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk,
presumably in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by Pinnacle
Studio?

Malcolm,
Do you still have those VHS tapes? As you want tp re-edit,
you will probably get a better result by re-capturing them on
your present computer directly into your video-editing program
than by 'ripping' them back from the DVD you made, which
will be in MPEG2 (compressed) format. Cut-only editing
on MPEG2 video streams is lossless, but anything else will
reduce quality noticeably.
HTH
--
Rob

Good idea Rob, I will certainly think about that solution. Trouble is I
don't have analogue capture on my current computer. The quality of the
original cine was pretty dire (by today's standards) so I don't expect the
MPEG2 compression made a lot of difference.

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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"Oldish sod" wrote in message
...

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
...
Many years ago I made some home movies with a super 8 cine camera.
Subsequently I copied these movies to VHS video tape using an analogue
camcorder. Later on I dubbed the VHS video to DVD via a DVD recorder.

I now would like to capture the video from the DVD to my hard disk so
that I can do some editing with Pinnacle studio and thereby produce a
much more professional compendium of all the old home movies on a new
DVD.

My question is how can I capture the DVD contents to hard disk,
presumably in AVI format, so that the clips can be recognised by
Pinnacle
Studio?

Malcolm,
Do you still have those VHS tapes? As you want tp re-edit,
you will probably get a better result by re-capturing them on
your present computer directly into your video-editing program
than by 'ripping' them back from the DVD you made, which
will be in MPEG2 (compressed) format. Cut-only editing
on MPEG2 video streams is lossless, but anything else will
reduce quality noticeably.
HTH
--
Rob

Good idea Rob, I will certainly think about that solution. Trouble is I
don't have analogue capture on my current computer. The quality of the
original cine was pretty dire (by today's standards) so I don't expect the
MPEG2 compression made a lot of difference.


Several months ago I purchased a little Tevion USB2 dongle from Aldi for
£29.29.

This enables me to capture and make DVDs via the SVideo output of my Humax
Freeview STB, it also has a composite input which allows me to record from a
video-recorder, the software also includes Power Producer 2 gold, which
along with the Tevion software has some basic editing facilities.

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:53:49 GMT, Malcolm H wrote:


"Trev" trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet wrote in message
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Look at the DVD in explore the vob files should be copied to the HD
then
change the Extn VOB to mpg and Now you can edit them

Thank you for that Trev. I've just tried with one of the *.vob files and
Pinnacle Studio informs me that I need to get an advanced codec for
£6.00.
I'm working on it. Is this what you would expect?



Studio is a little fussy about which mpeg files it will open - most other
editing software will open those files directly without making you buy an
extra codec.

Cheers.

James.