Newbie - VOB / IFO files to MPEG

[Klover]

Hi All,

I appologise in advance if this question is in the wrong forum and has been answered, but I am new to DV etc... and the site. I have searched the forums and can find lots of different advice, but am unsure what route to take.

I have a Sony Handycam 91E which DOES NOT connect to my PC. It only has an outlet for analogue. I have to finalize the discs and then place them in my (D) drive. I am trying to edit and dub music over my holiday video in Windows Movie Maker but I keep getting the following message,

"File cannot be imported. Make sure that it is a valid file type and that the contents have not been corrupted."

I can play the discs in Windows Media Player and InterVideo Win DVD, but I can not do much with them.

Can anyone advise?

Klover.

[Baldrick]

Is it a dvd handycam? then can't you use windows movie maker. If you just need some basic editing you can use tmpgenc dvd author, click add dvd video. If you want to advanced editing I would recommend Mpeg Video Wizard.

[sanjayk]

Klover, Welcome to this extraordinary site. I am also still in the learning process.

What is the format of the file you have ? Use Gsopt or AVICodec to open the file and see what it says. Post a screenshot here so others can also help.

[Matt D]

Windows "movie destroyer"!?! Do yourself a favor, and scrap that POS.

[ryan woo]

Hi All,

I got the same camera, It's files are standard DVD structure i.e VOBs and AC3 sound, I also opted for the non AV out to save a bit of cash as I thought editing wouldn't be a problem as I have a DVDROM and DVD-RW was I wrong!!! I'm still trying to find a program to edit the VOBs:

Sony Vegas,
Premiere Pro
Ulead DVD Studio
Pinnacle Liquid,

all without success,

I'm not really going down the route of editing the video such as effects etc but more chopping and changing, So TMPEG DVD Author would probably suit me would this program supoort a DVD menu created in Photoshop CS? If not does it allow you to insert images of your own or are you restricted to its templates?

Cheers

[gshelley61]

Download the trial versions of Womble MPEG Video Wizard and MPEG-VCR. They both frame accurately edit MPEG2, even from DVD based VOB or VRO file formats. Simple trimming, cutting and joining requires no re-encoding (no loss of quality). AC3 audio is no problem, either. After you create your edited MPEG2 file with Womble, author the DVD with TMPGEnc DVD Author or whatever authoring application you like.

[jtoolman2000]

TMPGEnc DVD Author by itself will extract to mpg2. You can then use same to author back to dvd.

[yrnehbad]

Please slap my wrist and delete this post if i'm stealing the thread (i'm now 71 and getting denser by the day) but i think this may relate to the thread. I believe i was advised on this site a week or so ago that it was better to edit AVi rather than mpeg (i assume VOB cant be edited ??). Can someone elaborate a little more on this ? TIA Badrobin

[turk690]

It IS easier to edit AVI (with better results to boot) and if one is at all serious, capturing DV-AVI is one of the ways to go. HOWEVER, there are instances where all we have is some form of MPEG (as in that captured by a DVD camcorder or streamed off the HDD in a PVR); programs such as MPEG-VCR are infinitely better than nothing if these HAVE to be edited in their original form. This is why I don't prefer DVD-camcorders in their current incarnation. There is a way, though, of turning an MPEG stream back to AVI (with or without a DV codec) with DV2AVI; the results will now be amenable to editing. (This belongs to the same league as turning MP3 files back to WAV.)

[nelson133]

DVavi gives you more options, direct to mpg is much faster, depends on what you want to do and what you'll settle for. Nyah Levi

[yrnehbad]

Thank you for letting me but in with my question and for your replies. yrnehbad (badrobin, at 71 i often dont even remember who i am, LOL) Dont ever get old !