Ripping DVD and saving without Chapter Markers

[AMDHeaven]

Is there a way to rip a DVD with MP2 videos or another format into a timeline and then save it as MP4 or similar from VideoStudio X8Pro? When my MP2 DVD is ripped into my Timeline the only Save options listed are VSP projects, which don't play anywhere else. There are also options for burning to a DVD which seems kind of odd for a VSP file. If there is a tutorial about various ways of ripping and saving a DVD please share it, as this was an almost automatic process in VS6Pro. Also is there a way to save a DVD imported as Digital Media without Chapter Markers? Saving an imported DVD as separate files by default, and then requiring each Chapter Marker to be removed manually, and then somehow joining those files, makes me feel like I'm missing something.

[canuck]

What do you mean by " a DVD with MP2 videos or another format"? All video DVDs are made up of a series of ifo, bup and vob files (the vob files are the actual video files in a mpg format, there is no other format for a DVD)

A vsp file is not a video file but simply a road map containing the sources, effects,etc used to create a video. It cannot be played on any DVD player.

The process of ripping/burning is just as "automatic" (whatever that means) with the newer VS versions as it is with VS X6. Of course if you are are ripping commercial, copyrighted DVDs we can not help you

[Ken Berry]

If there is a tutorial about various ways of ripping and saving a DVD please share it

Coincidentally, you have the appropriate word there which answers the bulk of your problem, and the word is "share". Video Studio has never, in any of its versions, including X6 which you cite, used File > Save to create an actual video. As canuck has just said, at most it will save a project file (.vsp) which is only a text file telling VS what video is in a project, where it is stored and what editing has been done to it. To actually create a new video file once you have "ripped"/imported it into VS, is to use the Share tab and select the format you want to output the new video in. So using what you said in your first line, if you have imported mp2 videos or any other format into VS and want to "save" it as MP4 i.e. create a new version of that video in mp4 format, then you go to Share and click on the MPEG-4 tab, then select one of the presets there or edit it to match exactly the properties you are after. Give it a name and then press the blue START button.

The layout of the SHARE page may now be a bit different, but the principle is exactly the same as was used in X6...

[lata]

Hi

Just to add when you are importing the video from disc the panel Import From Digital Media shows the Titles and Chapters as thumbnails.
Selecting only the Titles and not the Chapters will import all Titles as Mpeg2 saved to the Working folder.
If you select chapters, should there be any? the clips will be shorter one for each chapter rather one for each title.