Hi everyone.

I was wondering if and how i would be able to get a clip from a DVD and copy it over straight to premiere (Like firewire with DV cassetes) and still keep the same quality.

I am trying to record a T.V clip about 5 minutes long onto the hard drive of the DVD recorder and then copy to a DVD then put it on premiere.

Thanks.

If ar all possible it is MUCH more preferable to capture to dv-avi format instead of going through the lossey DVD format. Do you have a video camera with video inputs and a firewire output?

If you have to do it using the dvd, search this forum for software which will help do this. This has come up in the past regularly and much info in past posts.

My approach is to open the VOB with the clip I need in VirtualDub, deinterlace it and save it to harddisk using the Huffyvu codec. You will have the same quality as on the DVD, except now you have it in a relatively small, editable AVI.

I do have a video camera that inputs fire-wire output.

Where would i get these things and how would i work them?

Google for VirtualDub and Huffyvu, install them, download them, and read the documentation on how to use them.