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how to import NON-Commercial DVD into iMovie

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I was doing a Google search to learn how to import NON-Commercial DVD into iMovie. I am considering re-editing a personal non-commercial DVD which was edited incorrectly.

I found a product called iSkysoft DVD Riper but when I click on a link inside the web site for a tip on how I might do this, it lead to Mac Forums. However, the link opened Mac Forums, but did not go anywhere after that, no tip. Would someone, please, guide me through this venture.

Actually, I'd much rather be able to import a DVD movie into Adobe Premier, but I'm not holding how much luck for that as the Adobe Premiere for Macs is pretty much dead.

Thanks for any help.

Patt
 
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What you want to do is get the content into an editable format. That would also be editable in Premier. Also, Premier is no longer dead on the Mac. Adobe released a new version a year or two ago.

As for ripping from that DVD, here is my response to the same question a few days ago.
 

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I was doing a Google search to learn how to import NON-Commercial DVD into iMovie. I am considering re-editing a personal non-commercial DVD which was edited incorrectly.

I found a product called iSkysoft DVD Riper but when I click on a link inside the web site for a tip on how I might do this, it lead to Mac Forums. However, the link opened Mac Forums, but did not go anywhere after that, no tip. Would someone, please, guide me through this venture.

Actually, I'd much rather be able to import a DVD movie into Adobe Premier, but I'm not holding how much luck for that as the Adobe Premiere for Macs is pretty much dead.

Thanks for any help.

Patt

The DVD ripping software you're referring to is of dubious quality. It's distributed by a number of different shadow companies with different front ends and is usually advertised via spam. I would *NOT* do business with a company like that.
 
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The way I have been doing it is just making a New Image out of the disk utility and then importing into Imovie, very simple.
With the latest Ilife you could do files larger than 2gb.
 

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