I want to make a highlight video from DVD footage of mine.

[cachorrao]

A friend of mine is a fighter and I want to make a highlight video of his fights with a cool adio track in the background. My problem is that I can't figure out what programs to use. All my footage is on DVD and I don't have a DV cam to convert it to DV to edit. SO I guess I have to convert the VOB files to some other video format but not sure which one. I'd like to loose the leasst amount of quality as possible. Then what editing software would you recomend for what I want to do. Obviously the easier to work with the better. I just want to be able to load footage and cut out the parts that are least exciting and then merge the highlights together and then add the audio with one program if possible.

I have been seaching the site to try and figure out how to do it to no avail. Any help would really be appreciated.

[Tommyknocker]

Rip the DVD. Take the VOBs and load them into Virtual Dub mod. Edit each clip while frameserving them into TMPGEnc as a DVD MPEG-2. Using TMPGEnc's Merge & Cut, join all of them in to one MPEG file. Demux this file into a m2v file. convert your selected audio track as a mpa file. Load both into IfoEdit, and burn the resultant files with Nero.

Or if you have Video Studio and TMPGEnc, load the VOBs into and save them as DVD MPEG files. Load them into Video Studio, edit, mute the audio, and add the audio track. Burn.

[cachorrao]

I've got IFO edit and Nero and I'm pretty comfortable working with both of them so I'll give them a try. It sounds fairly straight forward and simple. Thanks for the help in advance.

[cachorrao]

I'm having some problmes to be honest. I've never used vitual dub before and I'm really not sure hwat I'm doing. I can usualy figure stuff out myself but it seems not in this case. I hate to be a pain but is there a guide that takes you step by step through the process? Or if you could give me a step by step explanation I'd really appreciate it.

[Tommyknocker]

Edit with Virtual Dub.