Is there a fairly clean and innocuous piece of conversion software out there that allows me to drop unprotected DVDs onto the VP11 timeline relatively intact?
I've played around with HandBreak and a few others, but they're more concerned with space-efficient ripping, than preserving what little quality is left on the DVD. Also, based on prior experience, I'm reluctant to put Nero on this edit system because of the way it used to take over the whole machine.
I struggle with clients thinking they can give me a finished DVD of their material to use as a master, rather that giving me something closer to the native files when they still need modifications. Now, my largest client and good friend died before I could obtain his original masters or re-shoot everything for him myself, and we want to repackage all his material from our DVD masters.
I was kind of hoping VP11 would have an improved import capability for handling VOB files when I can't get a better source, so I was wondering what some of you have been happy using lately?
I've played around with HandBreak and a few others, but they're more concerned with space-efficient ripping, than preserving what little quality is left on the DVD. Also, based on prior experience, I'm reluctant to put Nero on this edit system because of the way it used to take over the whole machine.
I struggle with clients thinking they can give me a finished DVD of their material to use as a master, rather that giving me something closer to the native files when they still need modifications. Now, my largest client and good friend died before I could obtain his original masters or re-shoot everything for him myself, and we want to repackage all his material from our DVD masters.
I was kind of hoping VP11 would have an improved import capability for handling VOB files when I can't get a better source, so I was wondering what some of you have been happy using lately?