Because I want to archive some past video see another post, I would like to rip DVDs "what I wrote" a few years back and save to hard drive in a format I can burn again to disk.
Any good software you can recommend, preferably free and in similiar league to Audacity.
Nick.
on a Mac, Mac the ripper is pretty good, (free)
I believe that on PC people have used DVD shrink to good effect. (maybe free?)
(provided they're your own creations!)
as said in the other post, if the material is that valuable, spread the risk over a couple of discs and/or keep tapes /AVIs on HDD
most of my stuff goes straight to DVD and I don't keep spares - if the disc is buggered after a few years, I may loose the chance of selling a coup[le of copies but it's a risk I'll take. I sell copies to clients so they don't have a come back if the master is short term only. This has never actually happened. That's at the "quick and dirty" end of my stuff (I know it sonds like porn but isn't!) I actually keep the DVD files for maybe a year before clearing
If the job is worth it. I can keep an AVi orMPEG, or dump back to DVCam
If you've burnt them, ie: no copy protection, you don't need to use a 'ripper' as such. Use Mpegstreamclip instead - available FREE for Mac & PC - will allow you to save to many different formats or even demux the stream back to the mv2 format. On a Mac with FCP/S - saving to ProRes or DVCPRO works very well to keep the quality up ;)
The Mpegstreamclip site has been down for several days now but if you look around you'll find it on many mirrors - if you can't, PM me.
rip as in copy ? or rip as in create edittable files ?
try the following searches on google
dvd shrink
dvdfab hd
or just make iso copies using any decent dvd writing software
If I need to do this, like recently, using Liquid 6.1, it`s quite easy to import the VOB files into your NLE.
That's what I was just about to say, Edius will import VOBs as well, straight onto the time line. Trivially easy.
Have not got Edipus or Liquid. Need to copy in a format to reburn to another DVD later while keeping the copy in a back up hard drive.
would Nero allow this? pretty sure you can burn to HD - I'll look over the weekend
Just copy the VIDEO_TS folder from your original DVD to computer hard drive and then copy it back to a new blank DVD disk.
If you have nero or something similar you can also make a disk image file on your computer to burn copies from.
MattB