Thank you, I think you are correct. Are there differences in the "ripping" software - as it relates to video quality? if this is my "original" footage, any difference in which editing software to get?
I think you need to "rip" the video off the DVD into something the computer can understand. Typically I would save these files in DV format. These will be large, but then you won't have any re-compression and degradation of the video. Then once the…