Your welcome! Remember "service" is our middle name here at the Sony board...well figuratively speaking.

The term "ripping" is kind of inaccurate because it suggests the concept of bypassing certain protections on commercial discs to get to the contents for copying and other dubious activities!

What we really mean in the case of your 8cm DVDs is copying the contents over to the hard drive either in the form of the full DVD structure, vobs, ifo's etc or copying using software that reads through that structure and only imports the underlying MPEG2s. It doesn't matter which way you do it. It is a straight MPEG2 to MPEG2 file transfer with no loss of quality.

I am not sure about the software you tried or how old it is/was. Most editing software these days can handle editing MPEG2s without losing quality. Most will have an "Import from DVD" kind of function that will import the MPEG2s from the disc or from the full file structure you transferred to the hard drive automatically. This also doesn't lose quality but it must be done for the MPEG2s to be in a condition to be edited. Adobe premier, as far as I know, should be able to handle MPEG2s for editing just fine if it is a reasonably up to date version. You would have to check the help files or manual to be certain.

Try placing the finalised DVD in the DVD tray of the computer, open Premier, and look around for that "Import DVD" or "transfer from DVD" or some such wording and see if it is there.