How to rip & edit DVD video on Windows PC

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How to rip & edit DVD video on Windows PC

Today's technology requires the use of digital formats for movie fans to watch or edit DVD movies. Also, digitizing your discs collection is an ideal form of insurance against damage, theft or loss. This guide will show you how to ingest and convert DVD to Windows editors supported format for importing and editing in Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Premiere Pro and Movie Maker, etc.



"Is there any way I could adopt to import DVD movies to my Windows editing programs to complete some video editings? If possible, what do I need and what are the steps?"

There must be some occasions when you want to edit your favorite DVD movies to make some modifications, and there are many professional video editing software like Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe After Effects CS4, CyberLink PowerDirector, Magix Movie Edit Pro 14, Avid Media Composer on Windows with powerful video editing features. And this article discusses the details how to import footage on DVD into Windows edting programs for your further editing.

Solution 1: Put the DVD into your computer player, open the DVD in Explorer, copy the folder Video_TS to your computer. Open the folder and rename all the files with the extension VOB to MPEG-2/MOV/WMV. That's it. Then your Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas,Movie Maker, Premiere Pro will now import them.

Important note: This way seems to work only for non-protected DVDs. If have some commercial DVDs, you may need another solution. By the way, we searched the issues online, some guys give the feedback renaming the files didn't work; the files would import but then was unusable in Windows editors.

Solution 2: The alternative trick is to rip video files out of the DVDs, transcode them to a format that is best suited for your editing system. To do that, Pavtube DVDAid will be a great help. With it, you can fast rip DVD videos to AVI/WMV/MP4/MPEG-2 format which is compatible with Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, etc without high quality. Just download this program and follow this guide below to complete importing DVD clips to Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and Movie Maker for further editing.



Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/dvd_ripper/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-DVDAid/3000-7970_4-76158510.html

How to rip DVD movies for editing on Windows Editors with ease

1. Load DVD movies

First, insert your DVDs into DVD Drive, and then drag the DVD files to the program; Or you can click "Disc" icon to draw into DVD movies you want to rip. Alternatively, you can hit "ISO/IFO" button to import IFO files.



2. Select output format

Hit the Format box and select "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" option on the dropdown menu and you can choose "MPEG-2/WMV/MOV" as output format for editing with Premiere/Sony Vegas/Pinnacle Studio/Movie Maker, etc.



Tip:

Before conversion, you can click "Settings" button right besides "Format"and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.



3. Start DVD to MPEG-2/WMV/MOV conversion and then add videos to Windows editing software.

When all the settings are fine, click the "Convert" button to start converting your DVD movies to Windows compatible video files. When the conversion completes, locate the results videos ready to imported into Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and Movie Maker.

Additional Tip:

If you are Mac users, this guide will give you the Mac solution for ripping DVD to FCP/iMovie/Premiere on Mac.
 
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