how would i put a dvd onto windows movie maker. its a video that i just recently made but before i had a digital cam corder i had a crappy one so i had to get the movie on a dvd to play it on my comp. butt now i want to edit it. how do i go about doing this?
i dont ever use windows movie maker i suggest you uppgrade but anyways. do you still have all the video on the comp? if so then you can edit it from that and then put in on the dvd. if the dvd is not a rewriteble one then you will have to use another disk.
what i suggest:
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if its not a rewriteble one then edit what you thats on the comp and burn it back onto a new disk.
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if it is a rewriteble one then you have two choices:
- you can copy the vid on the dvd back onto the comp and then edit it from the comp and then burn it back on dvd.
- you can take the video already on the comp and edit that then burn over top of the one you burned before.
i hope this helps i think i might have missed something you said 
The good news is that ripping the DVD (copying it to your hard drive) will be easy because the DVD is not encrypted. You can copy everything to your hard drive straight across like normal files.
The tricky part will be reading the VOB files and converting them to a format that is more readable and editable.
Do you have DVD burning software like Nero? Some of the DVD burning software suites like Nero 6 come with applications that can read DVD files and convert them to an AVI.
If you use a DVD ripping program to convert the VOB files you will need to be careful about what settings it uses. The DVD ripping programs like to recompress and alter the files as they are converted. They do this because most commercial DVDs are too big to fit on a normal single layer DVD that computers use. So they’ll recompress the video to get it to fit since that is what most people will want to do. That severely affects the quality of the video and audio. Don’t let the ripping software do any recompression or audio normalizing or anything else of the sort. Just have it copy straight across at its highest setting.
You could use the trial version of TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress. It has a 14 day trial. It can read the VOB files as long as they’re unencrypted. Then it can convert the DVD MPEG-2 files to an AVI or WMV. This would be a good option as long as you’re willing to deal with the 14 day trial limit. I have the full paid for version of TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress. It works well.
wow 
i thought i was smart
john childs is a beast at the comp
thanx very much i understand everything now.um drewation i dont exactly think you knew where i was going with it…but thats ok.
wait a sec johnchilds i downloaded that program but i cant use it it says i have to have a serial number.
how do i use rip with windows media player?
Did you get the trial version that is at the bottom of the download page? The version at the top is the full version for people upgrading a paid for version. The version at the bottom of the page is the 14 day trial version.
You don’t rip with Windows Media Player.
Use TMPGEnc to open the VOB file (use the Set Source screen). Then go to the Set Output screen and select Windows Media Video Output. Set the options you want for the encoding (quality, bit rate, etc). Select a high bit rate and high quality settings to keep the video looking good. Click Encode and it’ll go at it. That’ll convert the VOB to a Windows Media Video file.
i knew what i was talking about its just it was in terms i understood 
ya thats what i was saying not trying to say that u didnt know what ur talking about. thanx john childs that help.
i cant click on set output
dont worrie any more i got it figured everything out.
high bit rate, well what should it be set at?
Windows Media Encoder has a File Archive preset setting. That’s the highest quality that it can do.
Select: File Archive
Video: Highest quality video (VBR 100)
Audio: Lossless quality audio (VBR 100)
At this quality setting the bit rate will be unconstrained. Meaning that it will use as many bits as it feels necessary. With DVD quality source video it can use about 45,000 Kbps (45 Mbps). That will make for a big output file. But it will be the best setting so that you don’t loose quality while editing. Otherwise repeated recompressions during editing can cause a noticeable video quality loss.
The other option is to set the bit rate manually. Go for a CBR (constant bit rate) mode and give it something like 30,000 Kbps or more depending on how much space you have and how big the video is.
And just for the sake of completeness, I should mention that in order to do Windows Media Video from TMPGEnc you will need to have the Windows Media Encoder installed. The encoder is a free download from Microsoft.
You’ve already got the encoder but I felt I should mention that for anyone else lurking.