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I have original camera and sound files for an old tropfest project which though shot on an SI2K was post produced from a DVD-Video export wwhich was re-imported, finessed and re-exported for some obscure deadline-related reason I never got to find out. To complicate matters that final post work was done on a Mac.

The final product did not reflect very well the work put into the vision and location sound. A small sample I cut as a 2 minute demo from the original camera files which I retained looks and sounds fine. Given time, I hope to reconstruct the edit from the camera files in 2K. However there was some post work done with the sound which includes voiceovers which I do not have sources for. The DVD-Video is my only source as well as being the only reference I have for the original edit.

In the past when I have imported files from DVD-Videos into Premiere Pro, both the audio and vision have imported fine. Now I find that Premiere Pro CS6 won't go anywhere near them, nor will Resolve16.

If anyone has any suggestions on importing the vision and audio files from DVD-Video VIDEO TS and AUDIO TS folders your advice will be appreciated.

There are a myriad of DVD Rippers out there. I'd go down that road myself.

Even VLC will do.

Uli and Jim.

Thank you for your informative responses. The original edit did not favourably reflect the effort I had put into it and I have the blessing of the producer-director to reconstruct it.

Uli. Thank you. I went the VLC route and it worked out fine. In the re-edit, I used the DVD footage to salvage some graphics which replicated a video game score and degraded the image furthur by softening and oversaturating to make it look more like an older videogame display compared to the images of the actual story. In the story, a young guy slips into a dream and lives as if in the videogame. The original edit had been done from the camera footage and was very flat with no visual distinction between the game environment and the story image. If only DaVinci Resolve had been around in 2010 in a user-friendly state as an editor, what could have been.