Can we edit directly from VOB files or must they be convertd

[gustf7131]

I am a beginner's amateur, just bought Videowave Professional 7, and can't seem to get past square one. A friend gave me a documentary on a political debate about 90 min long. I want to edit about a dozen clips from it, put them in a storyboard production, burn it onto a DVD, and show a 15 min DVD to my reading group. He said it wasn't protected material, but had me decrypt it anyway - and it came out in VOB, BUP, and IFO files. So I open up Videowave 7, and to make a storyboard it says go to production editor. When I clicked on "Create New DVD" it didn't give me the production editor, so I clicked on "Edit Video" and found the production editor. The source DVD has the program in about 11 files and folders inside "MyDVD" folder. The help guide then says to go to Media Selector and browse for video clips. When I try to highlight any of the 11 documents, or the whole MyDVD folder, it won't drag into Panel 1. Those are my video clips aren't they? files like VTS_01_03.VOB ?

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
sincerely, gareth

[Capmaster]

Many editors will directly open .VOB files, but it sounds like yours doesn't.

Try renaming the .VOB files by changing the extension to ".MPG" and see if you can open and edit them.

If not, you can always use Vobrator or a similar program to demux the video and audio streams, then open them separately in the editor, and have the editor save them as whatever file format you want.

[ZippyP.]

Womble mpeg video wizard will accept vob's. You can do some nice editting effects and it will output as mpeg.