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Nov 24, 2012 10:51 AM in response to Rebeccaingberby Klaus1,Your home DVDs presumably started life in iMovie projects, which you no longer have?
You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A/quicktime-mpeg-2-playback-component-f or-mac-os-x
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
And from the TOU of these forums:
Keep within the Law
- No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
- Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it. See this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3381
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7.
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Nov 26, 2012 1:02 PM in response to Klaus1by Rebeccaingber,I think I should back up a little: these DVDs did not "start life" in iMovie, they are copies of old VHS cassette tapes. They are truly "home movies," not commercial, and I had them converted specifically so that I could edit them. The on-line support at Apple has beautiful tutorials rhapsodizing about how easy it is to make "home" videos even better, using their products.
Do I really have to buy (yet another) Apple product just to work on my own material?
FYI - DVDxDv advertises explicity that it can "rip" a dvd to its own format....
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Nov 26, 2012 3:17 PM in response to Rebeccaingberby Klaus1,I get that! If they are in mpeg2 format my previous advice still applies. If not, what are they?
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Nov 26, 2012 3:29 PM in response to Rebeccaingberby AppleMan1958,I agree with Klaus's advice. Here is a step by step for how to do it in MPEG Streamclip.