cannot import home video from dvds

VERY new to this. Have Premiere 6.0. I want to use home videos which are on DVDs
to make a highlight DVD of my daughter's basketball games. How do I import these
DVD files so I can take sections out of them. The file extentions appear to be
.bup .ifo and .vbo. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It seems like this
should be straight forward but I must be missing something.

Based on reading a LOT of problem reports, importing files from a DVD camcorder
or other MPEG device, or trying to edit divx, or Ripping DVD files rarely
results in success in Premiere... do not be fooled by movie industry advertising
into thinking that "DVD Quality Video" is suitable for EDITING... it
is not... a DVD is designed to be for PLAYBACK only... and that includes trying
to edit a Standard Def MPEG or VOB file!

You should also use WAV sound files, not the compressed MP3 format

The only SD (Standard Def) files that Premiere really likes are DV AVI type 2

Go to my notes page <http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith/ADOBE.HTM>

Click the internal link for editing compressed files... read, there are some
ideas & links there, including some links to other programs that have been
mentioned in the Premiere forum as being better suited to editing MPG files

I have a canopus converter that converts DVDs to avi files so that i can drag
them to the timeline in Adobe Premeire 6.5. I thought I did detect some image
quality loss but did not know how noticeable it would be to the
"untrained" eye. Is there a loss of quality even with this image
converter?