user6273: I need to import some video material that was copied directly from a DVD into Premiere Pro. (Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, in that context it is lawful to use excerpts of commercial films in Germany). 
They were directly copied, meaning I don't have an image of the DVD, but the original file structure from the DVD including the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS, containing .VOB files. Premiere Pro can't import them. 
What is the best way to convert/copy those files to get them into a format that Premiere Pro can use? By 'best' I mean with the least quality loss possible and in a way that will produce either one file that has the entire movie in them or an array of sorted files that will be easy to look through. No I don't have the original DVD. Thanks!

user1871: Using ffmpeg, cat and remux all the VOBs together to a MPEG program stream.
ffmpeg -i "concat:vts01_1.vob|vts01_2.vob|vts01_3.vob" -c copy -f dvd dvd.mpg

(You may have to escape the | character i.e. vts01_1.vob\|vts01_2.vob\|vts01_3.vob)

6273: <p>I need to import some video material that was copied directly from a DVD into Premiere Pro. (Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, in that context it is lawful to use excerpts of commercial films in Germany). </p>

<p>They were directly copied, meaning I don't have an image of the DVD, but the original file structure from the DVD including the folders <code>VIDEO_TS</code> and <code>AUDIO_TS</code>, containing <code>.VOB</code> files. Premiere Pro can't import them. </p>

<p>What is the best way to convert/copy those files to get them into a format that Premiere Pro can use? By 'best' I mean with the least quality loss possible and in a way that will produce either one file that has the entire movie in them or an array of sorted files that will be easy to look through. No I don't have the original DVD. Thanks!</p>
 1871: <p>Using ffmpeg, cat and remux all the VOBs together to a MPEG program stream.</p>

<pre><code>ffmpeg -i "concat:vts01_1.vob|vts01_2.vob|vts01_3.vob" -c copy -f dvd dvd.mpg
</code></pre>

<p>(You may have to escape the <code>|</code> character i.e. <code>vts01_1.vob\|vts01_2.vob\|vts01_3.vob</code>)</p>
