Mac software to rip for further editing

[PL44]

I'd like to see what's possible. I have FCP running on my Mac and I'm looking for a way to rip DVD material so that I can edit it in FCP and burn it to a new DVD. I know that some quality will be lost, but question is if I can limit this loss to almost nill. Handbrake uses mp4 (a compressed format) and FCP has to render all the files, which takes a lot of time :( . Is there any way to improve that?
Btw, I'm working in PAL.
Regards,
Plastik

[AAR.oner]

definitely stay away from mp4...bad compression

what you want to do is demux first...i've only had do this process once, so someone might know a better prog, but i used MPEGStreamclip to demux to m2v [video stream] and aiff [audio]...then import into FCP for yer edit

http://www.squared5.com/