First off, a confession. I was a long-standing Sonic MyDVD user - but hey, I've learned the error of my ways and I'm now trying DVD Movie Factory!
Almost everything is fantastic - except I'm having trouble importing chapters from existing DVDs and making a compilation. There seem to be two problems.
Sometimes the chapters aren't recognised as video at all - where the box by the chapter number is meant to have a little icon in it to denote video footage, the box is actaully empty.
Other times, the box contains the icon but when you select the chapter you can't preview the video in the preview window and if you import it anyway it takes ages to import - and then comes in as a slideshow. Oops!
If anyone can throw any light on this phenomenon I'd be etrnally grateful.
SWB
Importing DVD folders
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maddrummer3301
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A lot of people are reporting trouble importing DVDs. Some DVDs seem to give it trouble. I think this feature still has a few bugs in it. 
I haven't found a good alternative either. A few months ago, I downloaded all of the "DVD to MPEG" trial programs I could find. All of them re-coded the MPEG. Most of them made a low bitrate "VCD quality" MPEG.
SUPER (FREE!!!) can re-code the individual VOB files into MPEG-2 files that Movie Factory can use, but you will get a glitch when you join the MPEG files together. (There are ways to join the VOB files together before re-coding them.).
I haven't found a good alternative either. A few months ago, I downloaded all of the "DVD to MPEG" trial programs I could find. All of them re-coded the MPEG. Most of them made a low bitrate "VCD quality" MPEG.
SUPER (FREE!!!) can re-code the individual VOB files into MPEG-2 files that Movie Factory can use, but you will get a glitch when you join the MPEG files together. (There are ways to join the VOB files together before re-coding them.).
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maddrummer3301
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Correct! When they work, Movie Factory and Video Studio are the best DVD extraction tools I've found. I was trying to say that all of the other programs I tried re-rendered the MPEG.I use the feature alot and video quality is always same as original quality.
Uleads dvd importing modules do not re-render the videos when extracting from dvd's.
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Re: Importing DVD folders
You haven't identified if the source DVD's are home made or commercial. If they are commercial then you may be confronted with copy protection.swbaxter wrote:........... I'm having trouble importing chapters from existing DVDs and making a compilation. .........