How to get video clips from a DVD with unknown extensions

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How to get video clips from a DVD with unknown extensions

My husband went skydiving this weekend and had a video made of the jump. We did not get the raw footage, but a DVD with several video files using .BUP, .IFO and .VOB.

We are making a "Oh, The Places You'll Go" video for my daughters 5th grade graduation class. Each parent is recording a line from the book to be compiled into one video for a group reading of the lines. My husband's line is ..."Oh, the places you'll go!" and he recorded it righrt before jumping out of the plane. We only need a clip of that one spot in the video.

The guy at the skydiving place told us "if we know what we are doing" we can get it to work somehow and get the clip we need. I copied all the video files to a flash drive but they won't open/play because it says "There is no application set to open video_TS.bup...please search the app store...".

Can anyone advise a (very novice) user in how to get the files converted to a format that we can use? I tried to paste a picture of the files in Finder but it said it wasn't allowed. There is also a folder titles "Audio" but no individual files in it.

I have iMovie '11 version 9.0.4 (1635), DVD Player App version 5500.48.2/Frameworks version 5.8.0.

This is not copyrighted content - it's just video of my husband so I don't think we would be doing anything illegal.

Thanks in advance for any help.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 10, 2014 4:02 AM

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Klaus1

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Apr 10, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Marlofromnc

In order to edit a DVD you first have to 'reverse engineer' it to be used in iMovie. The files you mention are the standard file format of a DVD.

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 or later:

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 onwards, 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. (The same applies to Mountain Lion and Mavericks even though they have it preinstalled.) You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

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