Convert VOB to AVI

[arlin]

I am having a hell of a time trying to take a DVD of my daughters Ballet performance and put it on to Premiere Pro 1.5 so I can re-edit it and then send it out to Encore 1.5, make menus and then burn it. I have tried many different programs.. Avisynth with Virt. Dub..Im too DVD Ripper...TMPGenc 3.0 express...I've tried diferent codecs..and I am able to convert it but it always look poor. The only thing that didn't look bad was no compression at all but the file was way too big. Premiere doesn't recognise VOB files so they need to be converted. Maybe I'm getting the settings wrong with these softwares.
Any thoughts?

[redwudz]

Different codecs to try: Huffy, PicVideo, DV. I favor DV as all frames are keyframes and it makes editing easier. It is 13GB an hour, so it does take some space. You can use VirtualDub Mod to load the VOBs and the Panasonic DV codec to convert to DV. Huffy is good, though the file sizes are large, but less than raw. PicVideo is a good compromise if you are short on hard drive space.

If Premier can recognize MPEG-2, you can also use VOB2MPG to convert the VOBs to that format with no lose. The AVI conversions will all have some lose, depending on the settings.

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