DVD To DV

Splinky

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What is the best app for converting a DVD back to a DV file? I am thinking of backing up all my video over to DVD. Eventually I know I will need to use a clip from one of my DVD.
Has anyone done this?
 
Well, essentially to do so you will need to rip the video back off the disc. You can do this with any number of utilities out there, I prefer Handbrake. (free!) Keep in mind that most of these utilities convert the video to something more managable than DV such as Xvid/Divx/mpeg4. So the quality shifts.

In some you can specify the quality via the bitrate, but you will still have to then convert that to a DV file afterwards. And what you get may not be as good quality as what you wanted.

I suggest that if you have video on your computer already and want to back it up, that you do so as a DVD-Rom, saving the files in the format they exist in.

Hope this helps.
 
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