Editing VOB files please help

[tim73]

I admit that maybe I'm too much of a Noob to be filling these forums, as I find all this video stuff a little hard to get my head around. However, I would be greatful for some advice. I've just bought a DVD recorder, and want to edit the VOB files so I can edit what I want to keep. The VOB files transfer to my HD easily, and I can edit them with VIDEOREDO. The resulting edited files are saved as MPEG2. I then burn them back to DVD with MYSONICDVD. Is this the right method of editing VOB files, or is there a better way? Also, because VIDEOREDO converts to MPEG2, aren't I losing quality, or are MPEG2 comparable to VOB files in terms of quality? If possible I'd like to know what you pro's use to edit and burn back to DVD. Many thanks.

[Baldrick]

videoredo only cuts and join the video, it doesn't reencode. But sonic mydvd may reencode, if it take loooooong time to author it encodes. You can try other author tool that does not reeeeencode at all like tmpgenc dvd author or dvd-lab....tmpgenc dvd author can also import dvd-video(vob files, click add dvd video) and have basic editing functions.

[tim73]

Could you explain what is meant by Re-Encode? Do you mean automatically convert back to the original file format?

[Baldrick]

reencode = reconvert the video. vobs contains mpeg2 video so videoredo does only save it as mpeg2 instead of the dvd vob format. it does not convert the video.

[smerral]

May I ask what kind of editing you do? Is it simply removing ads? If so the best method I have found is to use womble editor, tmpgenc and ifodit.

[smerral]

sorry. I meant ifoedit

[Matt D]

Like Baldrick says, TMPGEnc DVD Author can import your VOBs without doing anything to them. Edit out whatever you want with it's editing functions, create menus if you want and you're off. No conversion, no intermediate steps, DVD Author is the #1 program I recommend for newbs with a recorder.
If you want to keep doing it with redo that's cool too. Seems to be working for you so far. I'm not sure if Sonic does re-encode, never used it myself.