DVD to AVI for editing

[alittlebitter32]

Hi..I'm new to this site so please forgive me if I don't quite follow protocol yet. I need help - A local band gave me 3 DVD's (1 for each set they played). They are approx 3 Gb each. They would like me to be able to compress the 3 disks onto 1 DVD disk (4.7 Gb) with functional menu. I believe I have to convert the VOB files into AVI, throw them into Premiere and Encore DVD then re - author. Is this correct? If so, what is the easiest way to do this? If not, what should be my direction? Is it even possible? Thank you for any and all reponses.

[Baldrick]

tmpgenc dvd author, select add dvd video and select the video_ts folder. if it wont fit you can shrink it after with dvd shrink.

[alittlebitter32]

Thanks for the reply so quick. Unfortunatly TMPGEnc keeps giving me an error whenever I try to bring in the Video_TS folder - a little box with webdings and a red X. I've tried everything I could find on this site, and everything is just going bad....lol. Any other ways I could do this? I really hope I can do this properly, just getting into video and aside from the frustrations....quite enjoy it

[monzie]

DVD2AVI and VFAPI.

[tmh]

In TDA, maybe you have to select each .VOB file (1-x) from within the video_ts folder. That's how I've done it - pretty simple too.