I have an old home movie DVD (not made on a Mac) filmed in 2003, made probably not too long after. I'd like to cut off the last 30 minutes of it so I can mass copy the first part for relatives (its like karaoke no one wants to watch haha). Barring that, I can't figure out how to just even copy the thing. It says format is "PCM" I think and also NTSC. Thanks for any direction.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), null
First you will have to rip the movie portion of the video DVD with the free Handbrake app by copying the VIDEO_TS folder from the disk to the desktop. The run Handbrake on the .VOB files in the folder to get the movie you want if there's more than one.
After it's been ripped, edit it with iMovie or other movie editor of your choice. You'll need to create a new video DVD with an authoring application like iDVD or one of the video DVD authoring apps available from the App Store.
Whichever app you use to create the video DVD follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image (in iDVD) menu option. Most apps have a save as .dmg or .iso option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
Hi Old Toad!!
Thank you so much for your help and the excellent instructions. I can't select more than one VOB file and I am not sure exactly what should be happening in Handbrake. I have never used it. Can you educate me? I selected one VOB file and now it doesn't look like anything is happening. Thanks!
After copying the VIDEO_TS folder to the Desktop launch Handbrake. With the File ➙ Open source menu select one of the .VOB files at a time
and click in the Preview button to preview it before ripping. You can also preview the files by selecting them and pressing the Space bar.
Then you can set the picture settings with the Picture Setting button and select the type of video in the Video Codec menu if needed and then click on the Start button.
Ok thanks! Very helpful info. What is happening once I click the "start" button? Is it just converting it from an old format to one usable by iMovie/Mac? Also since this video is pretty old and grainy, are there any settings I can check/adjust on Picture Settings that might improve it? Thanks!
Icelyn wrote:
Ok thanks! Very helpful info. What is happening once I click the "start" button? Is it just converting it from an old format to one usable by iMovie/Mac? Also since this video is pretty old and grainy, are there any settings I can check/adjust on Picture Settings that might improve it? Thanks!
You'll just have to do some trial and error test on ripping to see what gets you the best results. You can ask in the iMovie forum as users more familiar with movie formats will hang out there.
Possible to copy an old home DVD?
